Strategy Summit 2026: Who’s Going to Succeed with AI?
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Turn breakthrough ideas into real results at the virtual HBR Innovation Summit this November with top CEOs and masterclasses on AI and growth. Register by September 30th and save 25%. Learn more at hbr.org slash innovation summit. I'm Alison Beard and this is the HBR Idea cast. Harvard Business Review recently hosted the HBR Strategy Summit 2026.
a day filled with expert advice and guidance from executives and academics. We're sharing the highlights of the event in this special Ideacast series. Today, our final episode of the series is a masterclass from Andy McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT and co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. at its Sloan School of Management. In the session, he explains how businesses are building the right cultures to truly succeed with AI.
He explains the rise of what he calls geek organizations and the gap that AI is creating between the best and the rest. He also takes audience questions with the help of HBR editor at large Adi Ignatius. Here's that masterclass. I want to talk about a top of mind topic for a lot of people these days who's going to succeed, what's going to distinguish successful AI adopters from the also rans in this era, right where we are now, where there's just substantial uncertainty about what's going on with AI.
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