Wisdom Of Crowds - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

wisdom broadly, handling compliance work more efficiently and staying out of the weeds on strategic issues. Using their power with management to evangelize for long-term planning, they must take the lead on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

18 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

are the biggest challenges you face? Despite widespread interest by companies in creating equitable workplaces, white women, and men and women of color, continue to be underrepresented in leadership roles. Unfortunately, much View Details

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

extremely encouraging, questions about raising his next venture round and the overall environment has made him question the wisdom of this plan. This case provides students an opportunity to explore the true... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development cycles, View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

17 Dec 2015
News

A Bridge to the Future

Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone course. Bridges, part View Details

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

wisdom of the crowd, with each product being reviewed many times (some with more than 1,000 reviews). Because of this, the way in which information is aggregated is a central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

24 Apr 2014
News

Crowdfunding capital for small business

like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital.” Although the partners had been friends for four decades, they had never worked together before... View Details

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

the phenomenon in large, publicly-listed business organizations. What are the causes? As Simon Griffiths puts it, "While we continue to focus on the short term, we will lose the benefits of working for the long term. View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

by the nature of contracts available to the vertically integrated firm and the MSP, and whether professionals hold private information. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

"It is important to have faith in our leaders... But it is also important to acknowledge the wisdom of the age-old adage: Have faith in God, but tie your camel first." William Redington put it more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

through the crowd to lesser-known microfinance borrowers in developing countries. Nanda puts most current crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo in the equivalent of the donation or lending... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 Apr 2015
News

“A Unique Leadership Experience”

his mission ends in May. The GMP program, was “the best commander training I had,” he told the assembled crowd from some 220 miles above the Earth. Behind Virts, the sun reflected off the space station’s solar arrays, visible through two... View Details

Keywords: April White; NASA

02 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

software, approach the received wisdom with caution. Our survey of firms regarding the costs of different types of software suggests that some... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

what kind of infrastructure do utilities need to build, and importantly, when do they have to build it? Rebekah Emanuel: Conventional wisdom is that powering our electricity without carbon is going to be... View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic... View Details