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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.
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Ann Majchrzak on co-creation within online crowds

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

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Susan Athey on news consumption

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.”

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Ohad Barzilay on the determinants of Kickstarter

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

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Timothy Bresnahan on mobile apps

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.”

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Hong Luo and Julie Mortimer on copyright enforcement

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.”

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Luís Cabral on Stack Overflow careers

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.”

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