Wisdom Of Crowds - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2017
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Mihir Desai explains the Wisdom of Finance

September 2018
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Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia

Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details

Keywords: Online Community; Collective Intelligence; Wisdom Of Crowds; Bias; Wikipedia; Britannica; Knowledge Production; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Prejudice and Bias

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01 Apr 2013
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Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

30 Jul 2013
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Manufacturing Confidence: The Wisdom of Amy Cuddy

19 May 2016
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Faculty Offer Words of Wisdom for Graduates

30 May 2017
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Harvard’s Mihir Desai on New Book, ’The Wisdom of Finance’

April 2013
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Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

More and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast groups of strangers distributed around... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Research and Development

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08 Mar 2016
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Words of Wisdom on International Women's Day

14 Sep 2009
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Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom of Whole-District Reform

01 Jun 2009
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The New “In” Crowd

Student Interest in Social Enterprise Is on the Rise As I sat in Burden Auditorium on a dreary Sunday back in March, surrounded by upwards of 1,100 students, I wondered whether I was witness to the arrival View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

2017
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The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

By: Mihir Desai

The Wisdom of Finance takes well-known financial concepts and applies them to our most pressing life issues. The book is philosophical in its approach, but Desai's thesis is peppered with real-life examples of how financial types can and should see the world... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Financial Institutions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs

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12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

firms flatten, they are actually pushing some decisions toward the top of the firm. "The conventional wisdom of delayering is that it's about pushing decisions down,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

June 1951 (Revised November 1982)
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Because Wisdom Can't Be Told

Concerns the effect the case method has on both teachers and students. Points out the growth in maturity of the incoming student, accustomed to the role of receiver in undergraduate school, to the point where he or she becomes an active participant as an adult member... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Cases; Business Education; Learning

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January–February 2013
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When the Crowd Fights Corruption

By: Paul M. Healy and Karthik Ramanna

Corruption is the greatest impediment to conducting business in Russia, according to leaders recently surveyed by the World Economic Forum. Indeed, it's a problem in many emerging markets, and businesses have a role to play in combating it, according to Healy and... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Emerging Economies; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Globalization; Russia; Georgia (nation, Asia); India

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31 Jan 2005
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Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

their parents own. So BMW, knowing that it's a fashion brand, is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. Q: What else about marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

01 Feb 1997
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Case Method Experts Share Their Wisdom

Professor Emeritus C. Roland Christensen (standing, right) offers some thoughts on "The Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership" at a November seminar that attracted 41 professors of business from seven New... View Details

31 Aug 2017
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The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir A. Desai

31 Jul 2014
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A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2014
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A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

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Scaling Up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI

By: Aniket Kittur, Lisa Yu, Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Karni Gilon, Felicia Ng, Robert Kraut and Dafna Shachaf

Analogy—the ability to find and apply deep structural patterns across domains—has been fundamental to human innovation in science and technology. Today there is a growing opportunity to accelerate innovation by moving analogy out of a single person’s mind and... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Crowdsourcing; Analogy; Innovation and Invention; Technology; Science

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