Networked Business

All seminars will take place from 3:00 - 4:30 PM in The Cotting Conference Room.
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Thursday, 5/2/2013

Thales Teixeira (Harvard Business School)

Thursday, 5/9/2013

D.J. Wu (Georgia Tech)

Thursday, 5/16/2013

Robert Gierkink (Founder and Chairman, Datalogix)

Thursday, 4/25/2013

Scott Page (University of Michigan)

A Tale of Two Models: Collective Accuracy in Prediction

Thursday, 4/18/2013

Robin Hanson (George Mason University)

Em Econ 101: Sketching A Society Of Emulated Minds

Thursday, 4/11/2013

Martin Nisenholtz (Harvard Kennedy School)

My Journey Leading the New York Times Digital Business

*Note: This presentation will be held from 12-1:30pm in Cumnock 101B

Thursday, 3/21/2013

Ravi Bapna (University of Minnesota)

One-Way Mirrors and Weak-Signaling in Online Dating: A Randomized Field Experiment

Thursday, 3/7/2013

Horace Dediu (Asymco)

Are the ecosystem wars won on the factory floor? The evolution of value chains in a computing market measured in the billions of units per year.

Thursday, 2/21/2013

Barry Wellman (University of Toronto)

Networked: The New Social Operating System

Thursday, 2/14/2013

Susan Crawford (Cardozo Law School)

Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Thursday, 2/7/2013

Scott Cook (Intuit)

The Role of Leaders in the Innovation Age: Should "the boss" live by design thinking and lean experimentation too?

Thursday, 12/6/2012

Ronald Burt (University of Chicago)

Network-Related Personality and the Agency Question: Multi-role Evidence from a Virtual World

Thursday, 11/29/2012

Chris Dellarocas (Boston University)

Attention Allocation in Information-Rich Environments: The Case of News Aggregators

Thursday, 11/8/2012

Avi Goldfarb (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Social Interaction on Economic Transactions: An Embarrassment of Niches?

Thursday, 11/1/2012

Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)

And the Bands Played On: Digital Disintermediation and the Quality of New Recorded Music

Thursday, 10/25/2012

Andrew McAfee (MIT)

Has Technology Been Bad For the Average Worker?

Thursday, 10/18/2012

Kristina McElheran (Harvard Business School)

Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data

Thursday, 9/20/2012

Sinan Aral (MIT)

Measuring and Propagating Influence in Networks

Thursday, 5/10/2012

Albert Lin (UC San Diego, National Geographic)

Our Human Knowledge Initiative 2.0: How information technology continues to change the game

Thursday, 4/26/2012

Brian Uzzi (Kellogg School of Management)

Tracking Traders' Understanding of the Market Using e-Communication Data

Synchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial traders

Thursday, 4/12/2012

Shane Greenstein (Kellogg School of Management)

Thursday, 3/29/2012

Vineet Kumar (Harvard Business School)

The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy

Thursday, 3/22/2012

Abe Usher (HumanGeo Group)

Finding Technology Innovation in Unexpected Places: Lessons from Special Operations and Google

Thursday, 2/23/2012

Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab)

Thursday, 2/16/2012

Laszlo Barabasi (Northeastern)

Network Science: From Structure to Control

Thursday, 2/2/2012

Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Jerzy Surma (Harvard Business School)

Social Failures & Solutions: Evidence from OkCupid & Facebook

Thursday, 12/8/2011

Bernardo Huberman (Senior Fellow at HP)

Social Media and Attention[pdf][pdf][pdf]

Thursday, 11/17/2011

John Horton (Staff Economist at oDesk Corporation)

The Applied Economics of an Online Labor Market

Tuesday, 11/15/2011

Tasso Argyros (Aster Data Co-Founder)

The Role of Data and Analytics in Digital Media Marketing and Online Business

Thursday, 10/27/2011

Anindya Ghose (NYU and Wharton)

Combining Econometric Modeling with Text Mining: The Case of Product Search

Thursday, 9/29/2011

Kevin Lewis (Harvard)

Stratification in the Early Stages of Mate Choice: A Network Study of Online Dating

Tuesday, 5/3/2011

Anindya Ghose (Leonard Stern School of Business)

Tuesday, 4/19/2011

Mark Fields (Executive Vice President Americas, Ford)

The Ford Transformation

Tuesday, 4/5/2011

Vish Krishnan (University of California, San Diego)

Managing Delegated Search

Tuesday, 3/29/2011

Joachim Henkel (Technische Universität München - Technical University of Munich)

And the Winner is-Acquired. Entrepreneurship as a Contest with Acquisition as the Prize

Tuesday, 3/8/2011

Nikhil Bobb (Facebook)

Applied Machine Learning/Data Science

Tuesday, 3/1/2011

Carliss Baldwin & Alan MacCormack

Technical Debt

Tuesday, 2/22/2011

Barry Bayus (Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Crowdsourcing and Individual Creativity over Time: The Detrimental Effects of Past Success

Tuesday, 2/15/2011

Joshua Gans (Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne)

Will the Internet Destroy the News Media?

Tuesday, 2/8/2011

Youngjin Yoo (Director, Center for Design+Innovation, Fox School of Business, Temple University)

Digitalization and the Emergence of Evolutionary Sciences of the Artificial

Tuesday, 2/1/2011

John Hagel (Deloitte)

The Power of Pull

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