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A Summer Internship with the City of Boston

At the behest of then-CDO Lauren Lockwood, 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) decided to join the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology for the summer.聽This blog post is a great reminder that government CAN have an innovative culture and can-do attitude.

The importance of government going digital (hint: it’s not just about efficiency)

Most people when they think of city government, they don鈥檛 exactly tend to think of pleasing and intuitive digital experiences. Former CDO (Chief Digital Officer) of the City of Boston and HBS alumna Lauren Lockwood is on a mission to change all that by creating interactions with government that don’t suck.

Waze Connected Citizens Program

In an innovative data-sharing partnership, Waze’s Connected Citizen Program connects local governments with traffic incident and congestion data. Professor Mitchell Weiss鈥檚 case on the program offers a masterclass in management principles for how small partnerships with government can scale like they鈥檙e a Silicon Valley hotshot and successfully build cities fit for the future.

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Tay: crowdsourcing a PR nightmare

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. 鈥淲e are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay.鈥 [1] Approximately 16 hours after launching its conversational chatterbot Tay in 2016, Microsoft […]

GoPro: falling short in capturing value from crowds

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. GoPro鈥檚 attempts to capitalize on User Generated Content has led them through a journey of value creation, to value capture, and then back to value creation again, as it struggles to grow beyond its camera product line. In November 2016, GoPro cut 15 […]

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Ben & Jerry鈥檚 taste for crowdsourcing

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. How does crowdsourcing help create your favorite ice-cream flavor? Ice-cream fans: love the classic Cherry Garcia flavor of Ben & Jerry鈥檚? Do you know it was developed out of a crowdsourcing campaign of the U.S. ice-cream maker? Ben & Jerry鈥檚 is probably best […]

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Google maps doubles down on network effects to stave off formidable competition

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative鈥檚 classroom blogging platform. Google Maps has evolved into a platform boasting powerful direct and indirect network effects. In October 2004, Google acquired Sydney-based Where 2 Technologies to create web application Google Maps [1]. At the time, it may have seemed that Google Maps was purely a […]

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Artsy: Sequencing the Art World鈥檚 Genomes

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. […]

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Using the power of crowds to answer 鈥渨hat should we do tonight?鈥

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 […]

Because the world needs great tech leaders

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 […]

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