Platforms & Crowds
With the power to transform established industries, capture untapped value, and materialize new business models, perhaps no aspect of the digital economy is as transformative as the possibilities presented by the platform economy and the utilization of crowds.Beyond Chicken & Egg
In this talk from our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Chiara Farronato an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Andrei Hagiu a visiting Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management moderated the panel.
CV Harquail on generative business practice
On November 5th, 2014 the Digital Seminar series hosted CV Harquail from FeministsAtWork. CV gave a talk called “Generative Business Practice: How Digital Technologies, a Network Orientation, and an Ethos of Generosity Combine to Transform How Businesses Work Together.”
Chiara Farronato on online reviews as a substitute for regulation
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.
Shane Greenstein on Wikipedia and the internet
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.”