Technology is improving the status quo, but it's leaving some people behind.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2014/08/how-uber-explains-our-economic-moment/
We've got compassion, aesthetics, and a few other talents.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2014/07/the-kind-of-work-humans-still-do-better-than-robots/
Shielding existing businesses from innovation isn't in the public interest.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2014/04/dont-let-incumbents-hold-back-the-future/
High-skilled immigration is an unambiguously good idea.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2014/03/the-u-s-immigration-debate-isnt-left-vs-right/
Expert intuition excels in predictable environments where good feedback is available.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2014/01/when-human-judgment-works-well-and-when-it-doesnt/
As the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down.
Controversial anti-theft software has made restaurant employees more productive.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/10/in-praise-of-electronically-monitoring-employees/
There’s little chance that true AI would develop in a way that’s friendly to humans.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/09/the-last-thing-we-want-is-real-artificial-intelligence/
How can students learn when they spend just 9% of their time studying?
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/07/alarming-research-shows-sorry/
Rapid tech advances and really smart people draw the sci-fi future ever closer.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/06/at-a-geeks-luncheon-the-future/
Some big thinkers are making big mistakes when talking about big data.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/04/pundits-stop-sounding-ignorant/
United Technologies is at the top of its game but recently announced big layoffs. Is this the new normal?
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/04/when-a-successful-company-shri/
When will employers start valuing signals other than college degrees?
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/02/stop-requiring-college-degrees/
The story of whether robots are eating our jobs is an important one. But who's telling it correctly?
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2013/01/manufacturing-jobs-and-the-ris/
Crowdsourcing continues to confound traditional approaches to organizational problem solving.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/11/let-the-crowd-fix-your-products-bugs/
The "backloaded business sentence" must. Go. Away.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/09/when-did-yoda-start-writing-ceo-speeches/
Regulators in Massachusetts chose wisely.
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/08/bostons-uber-ruling-a-triumph/
How do you tell an uplifting, inspirational story about the possibility that droids will take all our jobs? This is the challenge I faced when I was invited by the organizers of TEDxBoston to giv...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/08/how-do-you-tell-an-uplifting-s/
Does anyone actually enjoy break-out groups? It’s a serious question. I participate in more than a few full-day-or-longer meetings every year — management retreats, training sessions, meeting...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/07/its-time-to-break-up-with-brea/
Every time I take a walk in the woods around Boston now, I’m going to be looking over my shoulder for giant robot dogs. I’ve just been watching videos of Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, which is a...
I’ve been learning a lot from Danny Kahneman’s great book Thinking Fast and Slow. Kahneman is the world’s leading expert on human judgment and decision-making and the only non-economist to ...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/02/managerial-intuition-is-a-harm/
Some recent reading crystallized two hypotheses that have been rattling around in my head for a while now: Digital crowds work better than real-world ones. For some things, nothing works except s...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-surprising-benefits-of-sol/
George Eliot observed that “among all forms of error, prophesy is the most gratuitous.” Yogi Berra is said to have said the same thing in less adorned language: “It’s tough to make predic...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2011/12/six-predictions-for-digital-bu/
Thanks to a lot of great reporting, most recently by Bloomberg, we now know how strong the government’s reaction to the banking crisis of 2008 was — how quickly and heavily financial institut...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2011/12/the-real-betrayal-at-the-feder/
I originally wanted to kick off one of the chapters in Race Against the Machine with a quote from Karl Marx, but my co-author Erik Brynjolfsson talked me out of it. And I’m glad he did. Because...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2011/11/why-i-wont-quote-marx/