IT in the Cloud Era

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 27 June 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
0:05.9	HPR's podcast Coaching Real Leaders brings you behind closed doors as Muriel Wilkins coaches anonymous
0:11.9	leaders through raw honest career questions
0:14.6	that we all face.
0:15.9	Listen and follow coaching real leaders for free
0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.7	I'm Justin Fox and I'm talking today with Aaron Levy, who is co-founder and CEO of the
0:38.5	Cloud Storage Company Box.
0:41.0	Aaron also happens to be one of the most entertaining and informative business
0:44.4	voices on Twitter. I highly recommend following him and he has just written his
0:49.1	first piece for HBR. O-R-G.
0:51.9	Aaron welcome to Ideacast.
0:54.2	Thanks a lot.
0:55.2	That's quite the setup on the Twitter side.
0:57.3	Well, we'll get to that more a little later.
0:59.5	First of all, let's start with this essay that you've written for us.
1:02.0	It starts as a look back at Nick Carr's hugely controversial 2003
1:07.6	HPR article, IT doesn't matter.
1:10.4	And then assesses how IT does matter in a cloud-dominated business world.
1:15.0	Now first of all you were what 18 when that article came out? Were you already reading
1:19.1	HBR? No comment on my age but unfortunately I was not as active of a reader back then as I am now.
1:27.0	So tell us what was Carr's big argument in that article?
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