The Tech Effect: Recent Episodes
HBS Digital Initiative
As the digital revolution rapidly transforms the fundamental nature of organizations, leaders will need to understand the paradigms and best practices to innovate in digital-centric businesses. From advertising, to entertainment, to manufacturing, organizations establish market leadership by mastering digital innovation. So how do you ensure success - or better yet, avoid failure? And even if your company is tech-savvy, are you leveraging the new phenomena, like big data or analytics, properly? Have your products or your growth been created in an ethical way? This collection of stories will help you contextualize how technology is really changing how we do business.
This playlist was assembled by the team at the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative. DI is a new center at Harvard that builds expertise and community around the digital transformation of business. Get to know us: digital.hbs.edu.
Business is now an arms race for attention. A must-listen for anyone building technology, or even for those who want to come to terms with just how much apps can manipulate your behavior.
Let author Cathy O’Neil count the ways that data can misguide you. There is a dark side to big data – one that propogates discrimination across all sectors. Before your company embraces big data, it’s important to understand its limitations.
Are people in your organization forthright about the roles they hold, and willing to share how they view where they fit? Learn from NASA Jet Propulsion Lab’ approach to teaming.
At the end of the day, what is money really? Find out one perspective while exploring a historical example of “technology” enabling change in medieval England, all in 9 minutes.
Despite what urbanite experiences may suggest, not everyone in the world has an address and zipcode they can use to order goods. But soon, technology might enable a nameless yurt in Mongolia to receive its fair share of Amazon package deliveries.
The power of digital technologies to influence societies is awe-inspiring and a bit terrifying. But is manipulation of the masses using technology really all that new?
Companies create products, and the way customers use products has the power to change the direction of companies. It’s a constant dance, one you might call the Technology Tango.
Famed tech provocateur Anil Dash covers it all, from building an inclusive talent pipeline in silicon valley to the risks of visually dramatizing data.