A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.
From generative AI to fintech to spatial computing, new tech innovations are reshaping organizations from the factory floor to the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing right now to take advantage of the opportunities these technologies are creating—and to avoid falling victim to disruption?
The Year in Tech, 2025: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important applications of new tech mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.
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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.
It just feels lite. I keep waiting for something significant or surprising. I feel disappointed. Yet this is really the year of AI and I follow that very closely so perhaps I’m just biased.
It’s ok like reading the news. I get the idea and understand the topics hbr are presenting for 2025, actually I got some very useful ideas. But I think they could have two or three topics to deep dive and get an actual view of what those abstract ideas represent in the real world.
This is the second of these volumes I’ve read (I began with the “2026” issue), and I’m still not sure what I expected—though certainly not this. What presents itself as reflection reads more like a brainstorming session for Black Mirror episodes: an unrelenting procession of dystopian conceits, delivered with the poise of corporate optimism. The superficiality is almost admirable (the piece on the “construction industry” deserves special mention), and in this edition the gaslighting is particularly bold when it comes to Amazon, Apple, and OpenAI. A disheartening and oddly revealing read. Not recommended.
As usual for “Year in Tech”, a lot of hype, more hype and even more hype. But I learned that after fiasco with Metaverse they renamed it to “spatial computing”. Very unusual and down to earth was an article about digital transformation in construction industry-probably this article was there by mistake of the editor, lol.
Not really sure who this would be useful for. It's basically a collection of HBR articles; many are almost a year old already. It's somehow both too specific and not specific enough to be all that useful to anyone.
Every year, I choose to close the year by reading HBR’s yearly publication. The researchers contributed to the book by outlining the current state of the technology world in a concise and clear way.
I didn’t find sections of “understanding the trade-offs of the Amazon antitrust case” or “what is reasonable computing” to be pertinent or beneficial to read. Otherwise the book was a reasonable review of current state of technology in business.
Esperaba más la verdad. Es una recolección de ideas previas sobre la Inteligencia Artificial y asignados nuevos nombres o con alguna modificación para tener apariencia de nuevo. Vale la pena si no eres un lector asiduo de tecnología, de otro modo saltátelo.
I have selected this book as Stevo's Business Book of the Week for the week of 12/15, as it stands heads above other recently published books on this topic.
This book provides me with understanding of helpful concepts and latest trends of technology in 2025 such as Web3, spatial computing, generative AI. Easy to understand for general audience.
This is my first series of The Year in Tech and it was a relatively short read, felt like a compilation of highlights from their HBR articles of the year filled with a lot of buzzwords and upcoming/current trends in the technology space. There does not seem to have a coherent way of laying out the sequence of this read and again its not an in-depth insightful read for me. It just highlighted several case studies regarding several topics with some very broad and high-level "strategies" targeted for leaders/managements. Not exactly applicable for normal professionals I supposed.