Dr. Nyangon Selected to Serve on Harvard Business Review Advisory Council
Dr. Nyangon has been selected to serve on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. The Advisory Council consists of members interested in a wide range of topics that impact businesses and organizations. As a member of the Advisory Council, he will assist Harvard Business Review to improve its content as well as help chart the magazine’s future direction. Topics such as energy and climate transformations, customer-centric innovation, the future of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and digital transformation, the evolution of distributed electricity generation, the fourth industrial revolution and frontier technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), blockchain, advanced analytics, and others will be top priorities to explore, interpret and highlight the attendant challenges arising at their interfaces as they relate to reconfigurations of policies and regulations, business model innovation, socio-technical systems, infrastructural modernization, and social practices to advance human knowledge.
He will provide insight, participate in research, and help shape content for the Harvard Business Review to enrich the Council’s understanding of these issues and the wider world of management, leadership, and organizational change.
The future of decarbonization
Reflections on the pace and future of decarbonization: "With the rapid pace of change triggered by the fourth industrial revolution, governments and businesses are being challenged to an unprecedented level. Today’s political, legislative, and regulatory authorities are being overtaken by the merger of global megatrends like climate change and resource scarcity, rendering leaders unable to cope with the speed of technological change and the significance of its implications. In such conditions, are government policies and regulations effective in supporting the decarbonization of existing infrastructure for a carbon-neutral world without stifling innovation? Leading the design of advanced analytics to help utilities meet critical objectives such as supplying safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy services as well as solving recent demanding challenges like evolving customer demand, technology innovation, and changing regulatory environment requires combinatorial innovation. This includes leveraging specialized automation and predictive infrastructure to monitor remote energy assets thereby detecting and preventing power outages and related downtimes. Artificial intelligence will play a big role in emerging technologies like 5G, electric vehicle and charging infrastructure, drone deployment, intelligent electrical grids, smart cities, smart home technology, and vehicle-to-grid technology," Joe Nyangon