Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality. The protagonists wrestle with the impacts of tech consolidation, data breaches, and the theory and practice of corporate social responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

It was inspired by comments from author Neal Stephenson, who espoused the latter view in a Q&A at MIT. So I wrote a piece juxtaposing the Stephenson/Cowen view with the work of MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson, who has been amassing evidence that a digitization-fueled economic revolution is in fact beginning to happen.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. A hundred years from now, he said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st century and say, "It was an actively creative society.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. The key to winning over a decision maker like Stephenson is working with a champion to provide enough data, analysis, and outside validation to ensure that those who would question his decision see a trail of sound and thoughtful due diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

As AT&T CEO and Chair Randall Stephenson, recently told the New York Times, “There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop… People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with the technology.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says technology workers need to learn online for at least five hours per week to fend off obsolescence. .’” Self-explaining should go into the learning tool kit of workers today, as the economy places new demands on making connections and adopting new insights and skills.

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