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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
damage the environment and maybe even better, we’ve shared that innovation across the industry. So that’s another kind of turning strategy on its head. If you care about bigger objectives than just profit, maybe you actually share some of your bigger innovations. You...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Task Force
Monroy can make that claim. Based in Mexico City, Zubale crowdsources the expensive and inefficient task of merchandising, using its app to connect independent contractors with major brands looking for the on-the-ground help needed to get...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued his curiosity about how such...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Clubs Hopping
applications and in what people are asking us to work on. I think funders are also paring down their portfolios. Funding can be tougher to get, so people are turning to less traditional models, like crowdsourcing or social media or...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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In Search of Innovation
will be accepted at HealthAccelerationChallenge.com until September 29, 2014. Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of expert judges and through crowdsourced comments on the site. Finalists will share $150,000 and will be invited to...
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- 27 Mar 2020
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CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
information can be found on this Ways to Help HBS Talent page. CPD has also developed a new website in response to an expected rise in alumni demand for coaching and career resources, as well as the desire to draw on alumni experience. “No one has experienced anything...
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- 15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
research presentations illustrated how business, science, and technology are addressing societal challenges: SEAS professor Yiling Chen discussed the design of social computing systems, HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani explained the use of View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech company that produces...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
which takes the market risk,” says Riva. Bonding Together to Beat Traffic Since its 2009 launch, the navigation app Waze has provided drivers with a crowdsourced commute, with user-supplied traffic reports providing more efficient city...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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The Changing Nature of Research
and are now conducting field work using data mining, people analytics, crowdsourced solutions, and longitudinal studies, among other approaches, to address business and society’s greatest challenges. “We continually aspire to be both...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Game Time
the company completed the largest-ever crowdsourcing campaign for an augmented reality product, raising $1.7 million, and followed it with a $7.5 million Series A in summer 2020. The technology was conceived by inventor Jeri Ellsworth in...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Elliott Management, and Jonathan Rose Companies. The issues they tackled ranged from crowdsourcing and e-commerce, to renewable energy generation and development of buildings for use by charter schools. IFCs are topic-oriented and...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice
has led faculty members to explore research questions in innovative ways using data mining, people analytics, crowdsourced solutions, and other modes of investigation. Additionally, more than 30 faculty members are engaged in ambitious...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
counsel from faculty advisors Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) and Kent Bowen. Karim Lakhani provided insight into crowdsourcing and “innovation engines”; Nancy Koehn offered leadership advice and inspiration. They pursued every possible...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
efficient, it is so much more powerful than the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again. Every time I do research, I am going to do the crowdsourcing from our alumni.” —Professor Clayton Christensen,...
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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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- 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 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
- 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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