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."

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.

Platform-based companies have begun to go public with mixed results. The question remains: will these high-profile IPOs accelerate growth and spur investment?

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.

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.

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.

Despite mounting evidence that innovation tools such as crowdsourcing are better, faster, and cheaper, it is still difficult for organizations to embrace this change. Held at HBS, the first annual Crowd Academy brought together researchers and industry experts to further the conversation on crowdsourcing, open innovation, and the future of work.

The Global Philosopher, a special 4-part series with BBC Radio 4, gave Professor Michael J. Sandel an opportunity to initiate global dialogue like he’d never done before. Using HBX’s innovative Live Studio, the series virtually brought together individuals from across the globe to engage in lively debate about some of today’s most pressing issues. In this keynote from the 2018 Harvard University IT Summit, Sandel muses on the promise — and limitations — of this style of public discourse.

When you picture a screaming, sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden, esports (AKA professional gaming) might not be the first thing to come to mind. But with a current global audience of 385 million people and annual revenues of nearly $700 million, esports has become a growing and lucrative industry that’s promising enough to have even the owner of the New England Patriots investing.

On February 14th, 2018 the Digital Seminar series hosted Ruomeng Cui from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. She gave a talk called “Learning from Inventory Availability Information: Evidence from Field Experiments on Amazon.”