Deborah Spar

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, author.

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of the “Work Mate Marry Love; How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny”

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Innovation has driven social change for centuries; the wheel, the steam engine, and the printing press all ushered consequential changes for human civilization.

How technology enabled women’s rights, and changed the institution of marriage

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