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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
We were looking for several different things. First of all, we wanted to just find out how extensive was the use of these platforms. We looked at three different types of platforms: 1) crowdsourcing platforms, where firms solicit opinions...
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- 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23
Developing Software through Crowdsourcing Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin, and Eric LonsteinHarvard Business School Case 610-032 TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments,...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
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Open Market
improved upon.” People ask questions, make comments, and help shape and polish the idea. “You’re crowdsourcing great ideas to improve them and move them forward,” she says. The viability and the idea isn’t the only factor, says...
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- 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20
including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is placed on exploring actual open innovation initiatives within Siemens and their outcomes. These include creating internal social- and knowledge-sharing networks and...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
Now CMO of the 1,600-employee company, which provides crowdsourced reviews of local home-service providers, Hicks maintains the enthusiasm she had as a first-time entrepreneur: “If you’re excited about what you’re doing, it’s contagious.”...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
needles in a haystack, but that’s where crowdsourcing comes in—defining a challenge and offering an incentive, whether in status or money, can get people to self-select as resources to you. You may even want to hire some of them. So this...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
company's crowdsourcing weather-forecasting service in Japan. It changed the face of weather forecasting in Japan. Bashi and LeStage wondered whether the experience could be applied to the U.S. market. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
undaunted, has since launched Innovate Your State, a nonprofit dedicated to boosting public participation in initiatives to improve government. Its first effort, the Fix California Challenge, crowdsourced ideas for ways to improve state...
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Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
only after multiyear lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online platforms such as Yelp are often contemporaneous and geographically finer than official...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14
team in a project to crowdsource the routes from volunteer riders in what came to be known as Mapatón CDMX. After four pilots and a two-week “mapping marathon” later, she wondered exactly what to make of the lab’s 50th experiment? Was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only after multi-year lags, and the public-facing versions are aggregated to the county or ZIP code level. In contrast, crowdsourced data from online...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
instruction or even the ability to crowdsource expertise. Just think of what Sal Khan has done with Khan Academy, to say, “Hey, we can even create content that’s relevant for every individual student.” So the technology partners are going...
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consumers join brand communities? What types of value do they provide? How can brand communities be crowdsourced to help build brands? How are brand communities valuable to and dangerous for brands? How are they best managed? What is the...
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