The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

6 WHAT LEADERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE CLOUD

by Bhaskar Ghosh and Karthik Narain

The authors thank Dave Light and H. James Wilson of Accenture Research for their contributions to this article.

Medical researchers and innovators are the heroes who are making our world livable again, but they can’t do it without the power of technology—especially cloud computing. This critical technology enabled the rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines. Moderna, a relatively small organization compared to pharmaceutical giants, built and scaled its operations on the cloud, and was able to deliver its first clinical batch to the National Institutes of Health for phase one trial only 42 days after initial sequencing of the virus. To accomplish this, the company ...