MIT Sloan Management Review Article on History's Lessons on Competitive Innovation

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  • Patrick Stoy, Steven Spear
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2020

We might assume that history has little to teach us about navigating our current situation of technological disruption — Industry 4.0, the internet of things, 5G, AI, machine learning, genomics, robotics — as it intersects with societal and economic upheaval. In fact, the past does offer important lessons, albeit from a surprising source.

About the Author

Steven Spear (@stevenjspear), a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founder of See to Solve LLC, is the author of The High-Velocity Edge (McGraw-Hill, 2010). Patrick Stoy is principal consultant at Leaping Cat Pharma Solutions LLC.

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