Featuring strategy scholars from Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and MIT Sloan, and business leaders from Amazon Web Services, Cisco, and Publicis Sapient.
Harvard Business Review will host its inaugural virtual HBR Strategy Summit this Thursday, February 26, 2026.
The 2026 HBR Strategy Summit convenes senior executives and leading experts to explore the latest thinking on strategy as AI reshapes competition and value creation. Through research-based insights, masterclasses, editor-led conversations, and an interactive case discussion, the program will equip leaders with practical frameworks to build strategic agility and drive transformation.
Cisco is the lead sponsor of the Summit.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Rita McGrath, Professor, Columbia Business School — Inventive Strategy and the “Unbossed” Organization
- W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Professors, INSEAD— Blue Ocean Strategy: Today and the Future
- Nigel Vaz, CEO, Publicis Sapient — Why AI Transformation Needs a Human Touch
- Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan — Who’s Going to Succeed with AI?
- Tsedal Neeley, Professor, Harvard Business School— Why AI Means Radical Change
- Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Professor, Harvard Business School — Case Study Discussion: TikTok’s Winning Strategy
- Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner, Executives in Residence, Amazon Web Services, and co-authors of The Octopus Organization — How to Build an Adaptable Business
The program includes an exclusive pre-event panel for HBR Executive subscribers, When AI Challenges Strategy: How Three CSOs Are Responding, featuring Jennifer Moll of DTEX, Maran Nalluswami of Synchrony, and Sherry Sanger of Penske. Learn more about HBR Executive at hbr.org/executive.
The Summit will also feature a conversation with Liz Centoni, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Cisco, on how to scale AI to drive business outcomes.
Media interested in covering the event should contact Amy Poftak at apoftak@hbr.org.
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