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The Year in Tech, 2026: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.
From gen AI to EVs to advanced digital collaboration tools, 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, 2026: 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.
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.
From gen AI to EVs to advanced digital collaboration tools, 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, 2026: 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.
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.
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176 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2025
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December 28, 2025
"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...
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...
October 19, 2025
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.
March 26, 2026
As a white-collar worker, this book allows me to get a glimpse of how corporate leaders are approaching technologies like AI and blockchain their corporate mindset and strategic priorities.
The final chapter on the Future of Work is worth reading. It identifies the three groups whose perspectives are most commonly represented in the media: the optimists (tech entrepreneurs), the skeptics (economists), and the pessimists (journalists and authors). It is found that while views are consistent within each group, there is a significant divide between them. The authors of the book chapter surveyed the predictions of these three groups and plotted them on a timeline, resulting in a surprising outlook for the future of human society.
The final chapter on the Future of Work is worth reading. It identifies the three groups whose perspectives are most commonly represented in the media: the optimists (tech entrepreneurs), the skeptics (economists), and the pessimists (journalists and authors). It is found that while views are consistent within each group, there is a significant divide between them. The authors of the book chapter surveyed the predictions of these three groups and plotted them on a timeline, resulting in a surprising outlook for the future of human society.
October 23, 2025
Very good book.
Loved lot of concepts and the last topic of future tech was very good
Loved lot of concepts and the last topic of future tech was very good
March 22, 2026
Most of the articles are skippable.
Just few of them were interesting to me (mostly the last ones).
I found disappointing in 2026 speak about deepseek, but maybe it is just my vision.
Just few of them were interesting to me (mostly the last ones).
I found disappointing in 2026 speak about deepseek, but maybe it is just my vision.
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