# Professor Luke Williams's remarks on innovation at Oracle CloudWorld are featured

1 Faculty News January 24, 2017 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2017/01/24/the-4-greatest-startups-of-all-time/#c58aa5b3eaa9) -- "'If you’re vested in growth, you have to be vested in innovation,' noted [Luke Williams](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/luke-williams), a professor of innovation at the NYU Stern School of Business, who spoke Tuesday at Oracle CloudWorld. The challenge for companies is that existing organizations are 'systems of continuity' that tend to resist real change unless they’re under an almost existential threat."

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