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Web3 may be the next big disrupter in business. Don't be caught unprepared.Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore—they're the backbone of the rising decentralized internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the past decade's rules: monopolies may be shattered, the web could be remade, and an entirely new breed of products and services will likely emerge. Where does your business fit in? Web3: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will show you how today's most innovative organizations are choosing Web3, experimenting with their brands, evaluating their risks, and preparing to win in the newer, better internet age.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

The Economist's Best Books of 2023 Forbes Top 10 Business Books of 2023Financial Times'Monthly Best Business Books to Read Pick In this'handbook for disruptors'(Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big things done. It will change the way you think about work, teams, projects, and culture, and give you the insight and tools you need to harness our human superpowers of learning and cooperation. What is “being geeky?” It's being a perennially curious person, one who's not afraid to tackle hard problems and embrace unconventional solutions. McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. The geek way seems odd at first. It's not deferential to experts, fond of planning and process, afraid of mistakes, or obsessed with'winning.'But it explains everything from why Montessori babies turn out to be creative tinkerers to how newcomers are disrupting industry after industry (and still just getting started). When all four norms are in place, a culture emerges that is freewheeling, fast-moving, egalitarian, evidence-driven, argumentative, and autonomous. Why does the geek way work so much better? McAfee provides an original answer: because it taps into humanity's superpower, which is our ability to cooperate intensely and learn rapidly. By providing insights from the young discipline of cultural evolution, McAfee shows that when we come together under the right conditions, we quickly figure out how to build reusable spaceships and self-correcting organizations. Under the wrong conditions, though, we create bureaucracy, chronic delays, cultures of silence, and the other classic dysfunctions of the Industrial Era. Mixing cutting-edge science, history, analysis, and stories that show the geek way in action, McAfee offers a new way to see the world and empowering tools for seizing the big opportunities of today and tomorrow.

Climate change is threatening our world. How are you responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate change are only getting worse. How can you ensure your organization is taking the right steps to mitigate this threat--and what can you, as an individual, do to help? These articles by experts and researchers will help you understand how climate change is affecting the future of business. Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will prepare you to join in the current discussion, identify immediate and long-term risks for your company, and plan for the future. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Dal coautore del bestseller The Second Machine Age, un'argomentazione convincente e brillantemente articolata di come abbiamo imparato ad aumentare la prosperità umana e allo stesso tempo a lasciare un'impronta più leggera sul nostro pianeta. Nel corso della storia, per l'umanità l'unico modo di crescere è stato quello di depredare la Terra: abbattere le foreste, inquinare aria e acqua, estrarre risorse all'infinito. Fin dalla prima Giornata della Terra nel 1970, la convinzione dominante è stato che, per prendersi cura del pianeta, occorresse cambiare radicalmente rotta: ridurre i consumi, stringere la cinghia, imparare a condividere e riutilizzare, limitare la crescita. Ragionamento corretto? Assolutamente no! McAfee sostiene che per risolvere i problemi dell'ambiente non servono cambiamenti radicali. Al contrario, dobbiamo fare di più di quello che stiamo già facendo: far crescere economie di mercato tecnologicamente sofisticate in tutto il mondo. L'America, per esempio, grande paese ad alta tecnologia che rappresenta circa il 25% dell'economia globale, anno dopo anno utilizza progressivamente meno risorse, anche se la sua economia e la sua popolazione continuano a crescere; sta inoltre inquinando di meno l'aria e l'acqua, emettendo meno gas serra e ricostituendo le popolazioni animali in via di estinzione. E – come dimostra McAfee – l'America non è sola. Anche altri paesi stanno andando incontro a una trasformazione profonda. Che cosa ha reso possibile questa svolta? In primo luogo la collaborazione fra tecnologia e capitalismo. Ma anche governi capaci di rispondere in maniera reattiva e un'opinione pubblica consapevole sono stati fondamentali. Senza ignorare questioni irrisolte, come il riscaldamento globale, la pesca eccessiva e le comunità lasciate indietro mentre il capitalismo e il progresso tecnologico vanno avanti, il libro è un resoconto rivelatore e paradigmatico di come siamo incappati in un equilibrio con la natura inaspettatamente migliore. Un equilibrio che porta con sé la promessa di secoli più abbondanti e di un futuro più verde.

Companies that don't use AI will soon be obsolete.From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you're poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI?Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age, a paradigm-shifting argument “full of fascinating information and provocative insights” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—demonstrating that we are increasing prosperity while using fewer natural resources. Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests, polluting the air and water, and endlessly using up resources. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the focus has been on radically changing course: reducing our consumption, tightening our belts, and learning to share and reuse. Is that argument correct? Absolutely not. In More from Less, McAfee argues that to solve our ecological problems we should do the opposite of what a decade of conventional wisdom suggests. Rather than reduce and conserve, we should rely on the cost-consciousness built into capitalism and the streamlining miracles of technology to create a more efficient world. America—a large, high-tech country that accounts for about 25% of the global economy—is now generally using less of most resources year after year, even as its economy and population continue to grow. What's more, the US is polluting the air and water less, emitting fewer greenhouse gases, and replenishing endangered animal populations. And, as McAfee shows, America is not alone. Other countries are also transforming themselves in fundamental ways. What has made this turnabout possible? One thing, primarily: the collaboration between technology and capitalism, although good governance and public awareness have also been critical. McAfee does warn of issues that haven't been solved, like global warming, overfishing, and communities left behind as capitalism and tech progress race forward. But overall, More from Less is a revelatory and “deeply engaging” (Booklist) account of how we've stumbled into an unexpectedly better balance with nature—one that holds out the promise of more abundant and greener centuries ahead.

'Vstoupili jsme do zcela nové doby. Počítače a roboti začínají sami řídit auta, psát články, optimalizovat daně, obsluhovat výrobní linky nebo diagnostikovat nemoci přesněji než lékaři. V posledních deseti letech se skokově zvýšily jejich schopnosti a čím dál častěji zvládají činnosti dosud vyhrazené pouze lidem. Díky tomu se zvyšuje produktivita a firmám rostou zisky, ale také narůstá nezaměstnanost a klesají reálné mzdy mnoha profesí. Jak bude vypadat naše budoucnost za deset let? Co vlastně čekat od inteligentních strojů a jak se na ně připravit? Světový bestseller Druhý věk strojů (v orig. Second Machine Age) Erika Brynjolfssona a Andrewa McAfeeho z MIT objasňuje masivní změny, které díky digitálním inovacím právě nyní podstupuje ekonomika a celý náš svět. Mnohé jsou pozitivní, neboť přinášejí větší blahobyt, jiné ale představují vážná rizika pro stabilitu společnosti: zánik bezpočtu profesí a prohlubování nerovnosti. Autoři přesvědčivě argumentují, co mohou udělat státy, aby zachovaly svým občanům zaměstnání, a jak by se na éru umělé inteligence měli adaptovat jednotlivci.'--

Become a Digital Master—No Matter What Business You're InIf you think the phrase “going digital” is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment—think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing have already fundamentally changed the entire business landscape as we know it—including your industry. The problem is that most accounts of digital in business focus on Silicon Valley stars and tech start-ups. But what about the other 90-plus percent of the economy?In Leading Digital, authors George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee highlight how large companies in traditional industries—from finance to manufacturing to pharmaceuticals—are using digital to gain strategic advantage. They illuminate the principles and practices that lead to successful digital transformation. Based on a study of more than four hundred global firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard, the book shows what it takes to become a Digital Master. It explains successful transformation in a clear, two-part framework: where to invest in digital capabilities, and how to lead the transformation. Within these parts, you'll learn:• How to engage better with your customers• How to digitally enhance operations• How to create a digital vision• How to govern your digital activitiesThe book also includes an extensive step-by-step transformation playbook for leaders to follow.Leading Digital is the must-have guide to help your organization survive and thrive in the new, digitally powered, global economy.

Examines how information technologies are affecting jobs, skills, wages, and the economy. As one of the most important forces in the economy today, digital technologies are transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth.

Cambrian House builds internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and also participate in a monthly voting process to select the best ideas. The company is now considering the deployment of a prediction market to deepen user involvement and commitment in its innovation; however, it is not sure if it is an appropriate strategy for its community.

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Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Function IT.

Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Enterprise IT.

Introduces students to the concepts covered in the Managing in the Information Age module on Network IT.

In its eight quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market, and how to best use its predictions.

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Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses engine simulation software to help him in his work.

In October 2005, Myrto Lazopoulou, head of user centered design at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), contemplates how to spread the usage of wikis inside the company. As a'social software'like chats and blogs (both already in use at DrKW), wikis facilitate collaboration. At its barest, a wiki is a Web site that anybody visiting could edit without having to know HTML or Web-authoring tools. The IT department at DrKW had decided to experiment with the technology in late 2004, and now, soon a year later, it had to decide whether and how to roll out the tool for widespread use at the investment bank. Is DrKW ready for such technology?

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In May 2005, JP Rangaswami, the chief information officer at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), wonders how to extend the bank's use of blogs. Corporations are now increasingly using these tools to diffuse news, opinions, and knowledge and improve collaboration. At DrKW, there are already over 300 internal blogs and Rangaswami now wants to encourage their internal spread. He has to make a compelling case for using blogs as well as make them easy to use. In addition, Rangaswami wants the bank to allow external blogs that others can view on the Internet. However, given the strict disclosure regulations that govern the bank's operations, Rangaswami wonders whether there are any safeguards that would help convince the bank's executive staff to allow external blogs.

CVS's retail pharmacy operations are functioning poorly and dissatisfying customers. Many customers are defecting as a result. A pharmacy service improvement team has documented the current prescription fulfillment process, its exception rates, and the problems generated by exceptions. The company must now decide how to change this process, and what information system changes to make in support of the redesigned process.

CVS's retail pharmacy operations are functioning poorly and dissatisfying customers. Many customers are defecting as a result. A pharmacy service improvement team has documented the current prescription fulfillment process, its exception rates, and the problems generated by exceptions. The company must now decide how to change this process, and what information system changes to make in support of the redesigned process.