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Reimagining Technology and Shared Prosperity: AI’s Impact on Economy and Democracy

The Horizons Tracker

In an era of technological advancement, it is crucial to question who benefits from these innovations. Drawing parallels between the past and present, Johnson and Acemoglu highlight that technology has long played a role in shaping prosperity.

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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Application of design thinking to help solve myriad problems that are not typically associated with design is illuminated in a new book through vignettes drawn from such diverse realms as politics and society, business, health and science, law, and writing. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Strategic plan as jigsaw puzzle.

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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. In the context of the workplace, diversity equals representation. In fact, without inclusion there’s often a diversity backlash.

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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

Given their day jobs — which at academic medical centers often include research, writing grant proposals, and tending to patients — they have little time. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Give constructive rejections. Build a diverse team.

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There’s No Excuse for Avoiding Strategy

Harvard Business Review

is one of many examples of what some now call internet time or a flat world and believe is somehow specific to 21 st -century information technologies and global markets. If you substitute “social media” or “apps” or “digital revolution,” you’ll find that Sloan’s description of changes in the auto market from 1924 to 1926 (three years!)

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Additional Insights… An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage.