The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.

Agentic AI, smart health care, advanced sensors, bioengineering—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?

The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

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.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2025

Reviews

[Dominiek Leenknecht · Rating 5 out of 5]

"De beste manier om te voorspellen wat er volgend jaar zal gebeuren, is eens stilstaan bij wat er dit jaar allemaal gebeurd is." Dat is het adagio van "The Year In Tech" dat jaarlijks gepubliceerd wordt door Harvard Business Review.

Heel interessante versie dit jaar, waar in heel duidelijke bewoordingen uitgelegd wordt wat AI agents nu precies zijn en hoe ze volgend jaar ook op jouw werkplek zouden moeten floreren; hoe een volledige sector als healthcare (dat zo zwaar onder druk staat) zou kunnen profiteren van automatisering en betere customer service/recommendations die AI en agentic AI met zich meebrengen; hoe innovaties in het kader van AI, sensoren en biotech elkaar steeds meer versterken en de volgende revolutie met zich zouden kunnen meebrengen; ...

Een absolute aanrader voor wie gefascineerd is door de mogelijkheden van technologie, of je er nu al alles van af denkt te weten of net niet...

[Pedro L. Fragoso · Rating 3 out of 5]

The cover promises “insights” from the Harvard Business Review. Having read them, I can offer one in return: we inhabit an increasingly miserable, dysfunctional, and dystopian world. From the cheerfully ominous notion of “living intelligence” (courtesy of ubiquitous sensors) and “Large Action Models” to the future of work and the serene conviction that what is good for “organizations” is assuredly good for society, the book reveals more than it intends. It is, without contest, the most dystopian reading of the year—especially in those few pages where the authors, with touching faith, attempt to summon hope or joy.

[Sriram · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good book.

Loved lot of concepts and the last topic of future tech was very good