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

About the Book

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.

About the Author :
Scott D. Anthony is a clinical professor of strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where his research and teaching focus on the adaptive challenges of disruptive change. He previously spent more than twenty years at Innosight, a growth strategy consultancy founded by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen. Thinkers50 named Anthony the world's ninth most influential management thinker in 2023 and named him the world's leading innovative thinker in 2017. Amy Webb is the founder of the Future Today Institute, a leading foresight and strategy firm. She is a professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Säid School of Business. She was elected a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, and serves as a Steward and Steering Committee member of the World Economic Forum. Webb was named by Forbes as "one of the five women changing the world" and was honored as one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2020. She is the author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity and The Signals are Talking: Why Today's Fringe is Tomorrow's Mainstream. She resides in Baltimore, MD. Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, nine international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Stephen R. Thorne is a professional actor and a member of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad, among many other roles. Stephen has narrated over fifty audiobooks. Mary Pochatko has been a lover of audio and storytelling since checking out books on tape from the library as a child. A voracious reader and spotlight stealing performer from a young age, she's always known that she was destined to use her talents to bring stories to life. With a degree in English literature and an extensive professional acting resume, she knows good writing, storytelling, character building, and collaboration. Most of all, she loves putting all of these things together to create art.