• Learning About Technology

DI editor Theresa Diederich reflects on the DI's digital publication a year on and shares her highlights of the advancements in the tech community at HBS.

• Innovation & Disruption

In the digital landscape, the rules of strategy are changing. In this flash talk, Professor Sunil Gupta shares how to focus on the possibilities of technology – without missing the big picture.

• Cybersecurity

Thinking that fancy math and big numbers will increase our safety online? SEAS Professor James Mickens urges you to think again. In this talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Mickens helps us understand how precarious the current state of cybersecurity is.

• Fintech / Digital Currencies

Just getting started learning about blockchain? This primer from DI professor, Karim Lakhani is the place to start. In this HBR Whiteboard Session, Professor Lakhani explains how the blockchain works and why we should care. Finally, Lakhani provides a brief roadmap for leaders looking to implement the promising technology within their own organizations.

• Data & Analysis

Data skills are in higher demand than ever, and the workforce is moving to fill the gap. In this article, Emily Glassberg Sands (Ph.D. '14 in Economics) shares her observations on data upskilling trends gleaned from over 30 million learners at Coursera — some of them might surprise you!

• Managing in the Digital Economy

What skills does the modern worker need to succeed and lead in the digital economy? DI Director David Homa makes the case for developing skills in computing, applied math, and at least one area of domain expertise (hint: it doesn't have to be a STEM field at all).

• Innovation & Disruption

Modern shopping habits are changing. HBS alum Charles Gorra explains how by embracing rather than resisting these shifts in preferences, Rebag was able to build a successful business around secondhand luxury handbags.

• Data & Analysis

Assortment rotation – swapping out products that are displayed by a store – is a popular business strategy for brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. But when and how should stores release a few products at a time versus revealing an entire product line? This research from Assistant Professor Kris Johnson Ferreira and Visiting Scholar Joel Goh is helping retailers fine tune that answer.

• Platforms & Crowds

With promises of making big money off of readers without relying on subscriptions and hundreds of alleged partners who’ve signed on as early testers, publishing startup Invisibly might just be the next big thing/one of media’s best kept secrets. But if it’s not subscriptions, and it’s not advertising, what exactly is Invisibly’s play – and how can they be so confident it will translate into billions?

• Platforms & Crowds

Blockchain is one of a handful of technologies poised to transform a multitude of industries, and yet its promise remains relatively unrealized. However, HBS alumnus Yezi Peng (MBA 2017) thinks that the blockchain platform Ethereum might just have the power to usher blockchain into widespread usage.

• Innovation & Disruption

Healthcare companies are lagging behind. Oftentimes, clinical trial research still uses old-school processes like physical protocol binders, paper diaries, and decade old-software. Furthermore, only 5% of the U.S. population participates in clinical research. Andrea Coravos (MBA ’17) argues that the time is ripe for innovative technologies – from virtual trials and digital biomarkers to improved software tools – to transform clinical trial execution and encourage broader participation from the public.