Unfair fight: small businesses vs. disinformation

Misleading information in maps and listings can endanger local businesses. Creative policies are needed to prevent serious damage.
How brands unwittingly fund disinformation

In order to reduce the total amount of disinformation online, it would need to be a less profitable endeavor.
Facts and fakes: how misinformation, disinformation, and hoaxes impact brands

To some, it only seems fair that social media platforms be held responsible when hoaxes, misinformation, and disinformation are spread about a brand.
Libra crypotocurrency and trust

New mechanisms are needed to establish trust in digital platforms that are using blockchain technology.
A guide to nature in the age of Instagram

Social media and influencer marketing are leaving certain insta-worthy locations, particularly natural spaces, overrun. Theresa Diederich, an expert in travel influencers and destination effects, shares some guiding principles for designing a better experience that everyone's sure to "like."
The curation of collective intelligence

Crowdsourcing platforms are nothing new, but how companies decide to use crowd intelligence and curate quality will impact the future of business and how effectively they will scale.
Do the Uber and Lyft IPOs signal the coming of age of the gig economy?

Platform-based companies have begun to go public with mixed results. The question remains: will these high-profile IPOs accelerate growth and spur investment?
Can crowds help the U.S. Military stay agile?

U.S. Special Operations Forces are known for their agility. However with expanding activity in the digitally-connected world, remaining agile means being open to new approaches — like working with crowds.
When online harassment doesn’t follow the rules

Hostility on social media is almost impossible to get away from — particularly when certain platforms are an integral part of how your company communicates. Online harassment researcher, Caroline Sinders takes a look at what technically doesn't break social platform rules, but ultimately can create conditions unwelcoming to women.
“Lost in Space:” can the crowd help NASA find items on the International Space Station?

It may seem hard to believe, but even astronauts lose track of things! In the closed environment of the International Space Station (ISS) there are only so many places equipment and personal items can be stored. So NASA reached out to LISH to run a crowdsource contest to improve on the existing state of the art inventory tracking system.

Influencers

Karim Lakhani

Karim is the Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration and faculty co-founder of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, as well as the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard.
Amit Goldenberg

Amit is an assistant professor in the negotiation, organizations & markets (NOM) unit at Harvard Business School and a psychologist by training.
Frank Nagle

Frank is an assistant professor in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School.
Feng Zhu

Feng Zhu is the Piramal Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Michael Luca

Michael is the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
David Yoffie

David is the Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Srikanth Jagabathula

Srikanth is a visiting associate professor in the technology and operations management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School.
Bharat Anand

Bharat is a professor in the strategy unit at Harvard Business School, senior associate dean and faculty chair of the HBS Online, and serves on the HarvardX Faculty Committee.
Chiara Farronato

Chiara is an assistant professor of business administration in the technology and operations management unit at Harvard Business School.
Carliss Baldwin

Carliss is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Allison Mnookin

Allison is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School and currently teaches the TOM and FIELD Global Immersion courses in the required MBA curriculum
CV Harquail

CV is the co-founder of FeministsAtWork.
Gerald Kane

Gerald (Jerry) is a professor of information systems at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
Ned Gulley

Ned is a design lead for the MATLAB product team and leader of the MATLAB Central user community team at The MathWorks.
Jennifer Fleiss

Jenny (MBA ’09) is a co-founder of Rent the Runway and is now the CEO (and co-founder) of Code Eight.