Tag Archives: Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee’s anecdote on enterprise prediction markets is a load of bullsh*t.

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Paul Hewitt: I’m curious why Andrew McAfee would cite this example in support of prediction markets. Though he mentions that his executive students had conducted a “simple poll”, in fact, they really created a pari-mutuel market, which provided the “risk … Continue reading →

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Andrew McAfee wanna share an anecdote about EPMs with you.

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I am curious about what Paul Hewitt will think of this.

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Surprise, Surprise: Andrew McAfee is pulling for CrowdCast.

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

He loves it. [Disclosure: He is on the CowdCast board. ] Andrew McAfee asks a question at the bottom of his post. Here is my answer. The reason for not adopting collective forecasting (prediction markets being the most complex method … Continue reading →

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Prof Andrew McAfee steals predictive info from NewsFutures, and beats his students with it.

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Andrew McAfee: Two questions to wind up this post. First, how could I have made better use of crowd wisdom and other available information to make better March Madness picks? And do you have any tips on how to be … Continue reading →

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“Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers.”

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Andrew McAfee PS: Prediction markets are included in the mix —along with wikis, blogs, social networking software, RSS, links, search, and tags. -

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Prediction Markets at Google — by Peter A. Coles, Karim R. Lakhani, Andrew McAfee

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Alas, that paper is not free to access. Andrew McAfee’s post reveals this: Prediction markets were (sic) very much like stock markets. They contained securities, each of which had a price. [...] – Not sure why they used the past … Continue reading →

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Enterprise prediction markets now part of Harvard MBA.

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Managing in the Information Age – (Spot the Google mention.) – A course by Andrew McAfee Via our good friend George Tziralis of AskMarkets

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I can’t think of a single reason not to deploy enterprise prediction markets.

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

… said [*] Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfee. [*] Original verbatim is this: I can’t think of a single reason not to deploy predictive markets. Any market is somewhat “predictive”. Our prediction markets are specially designed for easy … Continue reading →

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