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HBR Webinar: How Business Disruption Can Accelerate a New Kind of Technology Leadership

In this HBR Technology webinar, Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, Professors at Harvard Business School, discuss why and how to reinvent the firm in the age of AI, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated this digital transformation. These co-authors present a framework for rethinking business operating models, cover a new type of operating architecture for AI-centric firms, and share research and real-world case studies from such companies as Amazon, Netflix, and Airbnb. In this webinar, Iansiti and Lakhani:

  • Describe what it means to compete in the age of AI
  • Examine the role of AI-centric organizations in responding to COVID-19, transforming health care, and working to develop a vaccine
  • Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models
  • Suggest a new type of operating architecture for AI-centric firms
  • Share research and real-world case studies from companies such as Amazon, Netflix, and Airbnb

To watch the webinar in its entirety, click here. To learn more about their #1 Management Science book, "Competing in the Age of AI," click here.