This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. Can big data revolutionize even the fine arts? Today, the number of people in the U.S. who buy art as a percentage of people who can afford art is 3%. Carter Cleveland鈥檚 vision is to increase that number by an order of magnitude. […]
This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. Leveraging the real-time data from crowds to make the best of the day and night Using the power of crowds to find the crowds Whether you have lived in a city for many years, or are visiting a city on vacation for the […]
Introducing the 性视界 MS/MBA joint-degree program. We couldn鈥檛 be more excited! ??? You may have noticed a few weeks ago when we mentioned that HBS has officially announced the launch of an amazing new聽joint-degree program with the 性视界 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS). Today we鈥檇 like to spend some time […]
This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. See how a 179-year-old company has created the go-to platform for the agricultural industry, allowing John Deere to compete against both other farm equipment manufacturers as well as new Ag Tech entrants. John Deere is the number one farm equipment manufacturer in the […]
In spring 2015, Matt Tucker, the Digital Initiative platform manager, interviewed Laura Day, a research fellow in Professor Clay Christensen鈥檚 Forum for Growth and Innovation at HBS from June 2014 to October 2015. Tucker: What was your motivation in going to CES?
Rethink everything, or risk repeating the mistake of the transition from radio to TV 鈥淗ow many of you remember any mobile ad that you鈥檝e seen in the last month?鈥� When 性视界 Business School Professor Sunil Gupta asked this question at the Digital Initiative Summit in March 2015, not one hand went up. 鈥淲e鈥檝e basically taken the […]
鈥淲ith the advent of the Internet, the idea that the organization needs to monopolize people, ideas, and assets has been turned upside down.鈥� Professor Karim Lakhani from 性视界 Business School started studying the world of crowdsourcing years ago, when he wanted to determine what motivated people to contribute to open source software projects. Since then, he […]
It may not be at the top of a police department鈥檚 org chart, but on the internet, traffic cop is one of the best and most coveted positions there is. There are somewhere around one billion websites at present, with some three billion people accessing them across more connected devices than there are human beings […]
Professor Karim Lakhani, co-chair of the 2016 Open and User Innovation Conference, talks with Matt Tucker about how people outside the traditional boundaries of firms are radically changing the innovation process. Tucker: Thanks for taking the time to talk to me about Revolutionizing Innovation. It鈥檚 a new book that you鈥檝e edited with Dietmar Harhoff that […]
Blockchain is one of a handful of technologies poised to transform a multitude of industries, and yet its promise remains relatively unrealized. However, HBS alumnus Yezi Peng (MBA 2017) thinks that the blockchain platform Ethereum might just have the power to usher blockchain into widespread usage.