We Are Smarter Than Me
We Are Smarter Than Me
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| Author | Barry Libert Jon Spector and hundreds of other contributors |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Wharton School Publishing |
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October 5, 2007 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 176 pp (Harcover edition) |
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| OCLC | 144330898 |
| 658/.044 22 | |
| LC Class | HD69.S8 L53 2008 |
We Are Smarter Than Me is a collaborative-writing project using software, whose initial goal was producing a book about decision making processes that use large numbers of people. The first book was published as a printed book, late in 2007, by the publishing conglomerate Pearson Education. Along with Pearson, the project's four core sponsors include research institutes of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
The project was started as "a business community formed by business professionals to research and discuss the impact of social networks on traditional business functions". Initiated by illustrious faculty from the Wharton School and MIT Sloan School of Management
The people behind this initiative are Barry Libert, CEO of Shared Insights, Jon Spector, vice dean and director of Wharton’s Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Thomas W. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and founder and director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Tim Moore, editor-in-chief of Pearson Education and Jerry (Yoram) Wind, Lauder Professor and Professor of Marketing at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Wharton “think tank,” the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management.
The project was started in late 2006 and a website was established to allow people to contribute text to the book. It was published on October 5, 2007.
they had reached the following participation statistics by the time the book was ready for publication:
The project's website reports that "In addition to actual community members and contributors, the project was influenced by hundreds of bloggers, Podcasters, and conference attendees at the inaugural Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas."
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