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  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

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://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

and the increasing use of social media by companies to crowdsource ideas, mount contests to award prizes and gather audiences, and attempt to create dialogues with customers. The year 2010 accelerated the trend toward the use of social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

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,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

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.”... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

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... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

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:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.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.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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unprofitable relationship? Should firms “fire” their customers? Under which conditions? Why do consumers join brand communities? What types of value do they provide? How can brand communities be crowdsourced to help build brands? How are... View Details