Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Becky teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. She is a field researcher and ethnographer who examines how companies formulate and execute strategies. In particular, she focuses on the role...
Rebecca Karp is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. Becky teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. She is a field researcher and ethnographer who examines how companies formulate and execute strategies. In particular, she focuses on the role innovation and product development play in creating competitive advantage. She has looked at healthcare, financial services, video gaming, media and creative industries, and she has studied both established and entrepreneurial companies. Her research has been published in our top journals and won awards at our major Associations. Becky also has experience as a Principal Consultant at Booz and Company, where she served major international companies as well as non-profits such as the Screen Actors Guild and Boston Partners in Education. She was a board member of Symphony NH.
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Professor Becky Karp has always loved stories. Reading stories. Writing stories. She became a professor to understand, through field research and ethnography, the stories of great innovators who see the potential for new technologies to revitalize the meaning of what we experience in our interactions with each other. In this talk, Becky describes her research on what it takes to do this effectively. She describes, for example, the importance of openness that is integrated with governance that prevents junk from...
Professor Becky Karp has always loved stories. Reading stories. Writing stories. She became a professor to understand, through field research and ethnography, the stories of great innovators who see the potential for new technologies to revitalize the meaning of what we experience in our interactions with each other. In this talk, Becky describes her research on what it takes to do this effectively. She describes, for example, the importance of openness that is integrated with governance that prevents junk from dominating platforms. She talks about how slowing down AI implementation allows you to get what you really want rather than what you think you might want. And she describes how whole new organizational models are emerging to make these kinds of innovations possible.