Platforms & Crowds

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly, Professor Andrei Hagiu from MIT Sloan School of Management highlights how companies can tap in to one of the most promising and profitable aspects of business today: the platform economy.

Presented at the Digital Initiative 2017 Future Assembly, in this flash talk, Professor Chiara Farronato from Harvard Business School discusses how technology has facilitated the diffusion of online review systems and how online review systems can be an effective way to ensure consumer protection.

In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, Shane Greenstein the MBA Class of 1957, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, explores how communities work together on platforms, and “why Wikipedia is the best place on the internet.”

On October 7th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ann Majchrzak from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

On April 8th, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Susan Athey from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Susan gave a talk called “Aggregators, Social Media & News Consumption.”

On September 23rd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ohad Barzilay from the Coller School of Managment at Tel Aviv University.

On March 23rd, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Timothy Bresnahan from the School of Humanities & Sciences at Stanford University. He gave a talk called “Demand Heterogeneity, Inframarginal Multihoming, and Platform Market Stability- Mobile Apps.”

On February 10th, 2016 the Digital Seminar series hosted Hong Luo from Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer from Boston College. They gave a talk called “Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments.”

On April 22nd, 2015 the Digital Seminar series hosted Riitta Katila from Stanford University School of Engineering. Riitta gave a talk called “Who Takes You to the Dance – How Funding Partners Influence Innovative Activity in Young Firms.”