Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Crowdsourced contestification is becoming institutionalized as a way firms can grow their own innovation nations. That's right. Contestification.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

When outraged Vancouverites turned to blogs and Facebook to identify participants in the Stanley Cup riots, many celebrated sites like Vancouver 2011 Riot Pics and Vancouver 2011 Criminal List as examples of putting social media to concrete and constructive use. The crowdsourced surveillance genie is out of the lamp.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

This is where staff researchers review products that include kitchen and laundry appliances, cookware, coffeemakers, vacuum cleaners, recipes, and even bathing suits. But, in 2011, ours is a different world, which made me wonder: Were these Hearst facilities artifacts of a by-gone era? It was the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was also partially accurate in predicting that Google would "strike back" in 2011. For example, Sears allows a user to share a product or review with their networks directly from the site. They did, with Google Plus, a formidable initiative that acts as Google's " social layer " to the Web.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Back in 2011, crowdsourcing was fueling an explosion in open innovation. At that time, most Fortune 500 firms had launched crowdsourcing initiatives or partnered with startups in order to access outside innovators or co-create with customers. The providers of crowdsource solutions had their heyday. These crowdsourcing 1.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Our 2011 study, "Let's Play Brand," attempts to understand some of the implications of this "meta-game-mentality" for brand builders and marketers. Millennials use their tech-savvy slingshots to take aim at Goliath brands and knock them down to their level.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Because it has shown up in bits and pieces, via freemium models, crowdsourcing, online communities, virtual workforces, social networks, and so on, it is easy to miss how much the overall context has changed for the way value is created. You might notice that I have used the term social era. Sharing, not telling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As everyone now knows, Healthcare.gov – the $394 million website that was supposed to enable millions of Americans to shop for health insurance – is experiencing some initial technical failures. Critiquing the troubled rollout is easy, but not helpful considering that the current framework is the law of the land. Embrace transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Here, we gleaned some additional insights from a separate analysis of 281 social ventures that applied to participate in the 2010 or 2011 Summer Institutes run by the Unreasonable Institute , the Colorado-based social-enterprise accelerator. So what does it take to create these larger online networks?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Yet this style of interaction is less likely as work stretches across locations and company boundaries as we telecommute, crowdsource, and take on joint ventures. Modern leadership may be as much about facilitating strategy through hiring, training, technology, and focused tasks and goals, as it is about face-to-face interaction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

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