Does your interaction as a college professor with young people provide insights into digital disruption?

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Thales Teixeira (Author & Associate Professor, Harvard Business School)

Thales Teixeira explains how being a college professor at the Harvard Business School provides insights from college students who are avid users of technology and opens doors to gaining information from corporations and startups. He talks about his findings from his research into large corporations. This includes discovering that executives spend approximately ninety percent of their time focused on their own industry. This leads to a lack of understanding of how digital disruption and changing consumers needs are impacting other industries.

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Thales Teixeira

Author & Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

Thales Teixeira is an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, where he has taught MBA, doctoral and executive-level courses in Marketing Models, Digital Marketing and Ecommerce. He has consulted or advised top executives of over 15 of the Fortune 100 companies and is the author of dozens of articles published in trade press outlets such as The Harvard Business Review, The McKinsey Quarterly, Think with Google, and in academic journals. His new book is titled Unlocking the Customer Value Chain.

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Tracey Fitzpatrick

Tracey Fitzpatrick

Sarder TV Anchor & Former Market News Video Anchor

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