crowdsourcing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

being engaged and given incentive to change. I don't know what tool or technology could be used for that, but anything that improves communication between and with providers, that kind of standardization, would be huge." Other Articles In This Series Big Messages,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

Again, hardly anyone raised a hand. "And that's the problem," Balis said. Other Articles In This Series Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

breakthrough in alarm clock design since the snooze button until entrepreneur Gauri Nanda created Clocky. Her runaway hit has been the inspiration for several cases written by Professor Elie Ofek. Should I Crowdsource My Solutions?... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

minimum wage have a limited effect on overall employment,” Luca says. Crowdsourced consumer data This study differs from others done on wage-floor increases in that it uses crowdsourced data instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

weeks after students took an exam last summer, HBX leaders found a website selling the test questions. It seemed a daunting task to think about devising an endless list of new questions, so now instructors are crowdsourcing by asking... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

business in order to be successful." Other Articles In This Series Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation Who Has the Power in the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

However, traditional options for improving the algorithm, such as hiring and training new employees, were time intensive and costly. Hastings decided to improve Netflix's software by crowdsourcing and began planning the Netflix Prize, an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

evaluate the appearance of the hundreds of thousands of images, the authors used data from a crowdsourced study conducted by Hidalgo’s team in 2013. In the study, online participants were shown pairs of Street View images (chosen from a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the parties who are running those organizations, then we should try to see if we can break the cycle with something that lets an organization learn over time,” Bernstein says. “And that would seem to be a more experimental approach than a planned approach.” View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

the expanding practice of leveraging crowds for innovation and how crowdsourcing models have played out in different business environments. Lakhani notes, for example, that digital innovation has changed the models and mechanisms around... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses; a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

Gerdeman: Can you touch on the implications user innovation has on competition? Lakhani: In many ways, what the research is showing is that companies can reliably work with external sources of innovation—users, communities, even View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

may be able to settle in less-expensive regions and use crowdsourcing software and other platforms to stay on top while giving employees a better quality of life by allowing them to live in areas with lower-priced housing, Kerr says. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Victors & Spoils, a crowdsourcing advertising agency, to examine internal reactions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Havas--Change-Faster/an/615702-MMC-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-701 Victors & Spoils: 'Born... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54860 July–August 2018 Organization Science Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods By: Nagle, Frank... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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