Nicholas Carr
Business writer and emerging thinker
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nick is an acclaimed business writer and speaker whose work centres on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004 book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business.
In addition to writing more than a dozen articles and interviews for HBR, including "IT Doesn't Matter" and "Hypermediation: Commerce as Clickstream", Nick has also written for the New York Times, Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, and Journal of Business Strategy. He writes a column on innovation for Strategy & Business, where he's a contributing editor, and writes on technology for BusinessWeek. In 2005, Optimize magazine named him one of the top five "emerging thinkers" on information technology.
Articles edited by Nick won the McKinsey Awards as the best articles published in the Harvard Business Review in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. He also edited and wrote the introduction for The Digital Enterprise, a collection of HBR writings on the Internet, and contributed to World View, Organizing Business Knowledge, and When Good People Behave Badly. Before joining HBR, he was a principal at Mercer Management Consulting.
Nick has been a speaker at MIT, Harvard, Wharton, University of Sydney, Moscow State University, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as well as at many industry, corporate, and professional events throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. His ideas have been featured in The Economist, Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, Washington Post, New York Times, and CIO, among many other publications. He has also appeared as a business commentator on CNN, CNBC, CNBC-Asia, and Tech TV. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Harvard University.
Keynote: The third age of IT
Wednesday, November 8th, 9.15
Information technology in companies has progressed through two ages - the mainframe age and the client-server age. Now, at last, we are moving into the third age, the utility age, in which the Internet will truly take centre stage. The new age will overturn many of our assumptions about IT, creating fresh opportunities but also bringing new dangers.
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Tutorial 4B: Thinking Strategically About Information Technology
Tuesday, November 7th, 13.00
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