Ideas Made to Matter Platform Strategy

Which industries are ready for platform transformation

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Platform disruption is coming for more and more businesses. Here’s how to figure out if yours is one of them.

Sep 30, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Social Media

A 4-step plan for fighting social media manipulation

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“Without an organized research agenda that informs policy, democracies will remain vulnerable to foreign and domestic attacks.”

Aug 29, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Market Research

Predicting customer trends with sales data

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The algorithm calculates customer trends and the most effective targeted promotions.

Aug 14, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Platform Strategy

3 forces pushing on the platform economy

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Experts weigh in on regulations, new technology, and inverted firms.

Jul 31, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Digital Economy

How much are search engines worth to you?

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Apparently, about $17,000.

Mar 26, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Social Media

Crowdsourced ratings of online news quality may actually work

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People are nearly as good as fact-checkers at sussing out unreliable news sources, a new study finds.

Jan 28, 2019
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Ideas Made to Matter Social Media

Social media advertising can boost or beat fake news

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New research shows social media advertising can spread falsehoods or amplify facts.

Dec 19, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

How social influence drives online gift giving

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Receiving a gift makes you 56 percent more likely to do some giving of your own.

Dec 12, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Social Media

How do online bots shift opinions?

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Work underway by an MIT professor puzzles how bots change minds — or swing an election.

Aug 1, 2018
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Ideas Made to Matter Social Media

A new method for rooting out social media bots

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Borrowing a model from statistical physics, an MIT professor finds a better way to detect online bots.

Jul 10, 2018
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