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On February 14th, 2018 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ruomeng Cui from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She gave a talk called 鈥淟earning from Inventory Availability Information: Evidence from Field Experiments on Amazon.”

You see disruption on the horizon, you recognize a big market, you know the change is coming, you know technology is going drive it, you know the value and business models are about to fundamentally change 鈥� now what? GE鈥檚 Bill Ruh highlights how industrial firms can be proactive and take digital transformation in to their own hands 鈥� before they are disrupted themselves.

To be a successful omnichannel retailer in the age of e-commerce, Target can no longer simply continue to incrementally improve each individual aspect of its business. Instead, the company needs a unique and systemwide digital supply strategy that will strengthen Target鈥檚 customer promise as well as its bottom line.

As customer demand for greater computing power and product customizations grows, Intel must ask itself, 鈥淲hat is the future the computing supply chain?鈥� and find a way to stay relevant as microprocessors gain further dominance.

How can Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, embrace IoT, blockchain, and autonomous technology, to remain competitive in the digital world?

3D printing and virtual warehousing has the power to improve the consumer offering and increase the efficiency of the supply chain by providing wider product variety with faster delivery while accessing scale manufacturing advantages and reducing inventory holding cost and production waste. This technology has the potential to fundamentally change global trade dynamics, consumer buying behavior and business strategy as it enables a shift away from the physical and into the virtual.

Over the last 10 years, advanced manufacturing has blossomed in a rural pocket of Mississippi. Led by Dean Nitin Nohria and Senior Associate Dean for Research Jan Rivkin, sixteen HBS faculty traveled there together last fall for a closer look.

In this interview from the Social Enterprise Initiative’s “Impact Insights,” HBS Professor Kash Rangan and co-founder of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, discussed the聽new HBS research initiative called “Impact Co-Laboratory”.

Written by Sonali Bloom, HBS 鈥�17. This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. Craigslist grew rapidly by leveraging hyper-local network effects 鈥� but now faces market share erosion as other platforms enter niche segments. Who will win, and how?

Written by Yuval Gonczarowski, HBS 鈥�17. This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. What started as a place for disgruntled employees to share their frustrations with the people upstairs anonymously, quickly became a money-making machine.聽