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HBS Case on Wikipedia Makes an Interesting Read

Authored by Jay Baage on January 31, 2007 - 7:50am.
After all those MBA-classes, perhaps the last thing you want to read is another HBS case. I have a hate/love relationship to these cases. Many of them are written with hindsight bias, sometimes called the I-knew-it-all-along effect, which is the inclination to see past events as being predictable and reasonable to expect, perhaps because they are more available than possible outcomes which did not occur (that definition actually comes from Wikipedia). However, this case provides a good read for anyone interested in the Web 2.0 phenonon and the new trend in publishing known as collaborative editing. It goes into discussions of expertise, authority and anti-elitism in publishing, which might not be expected from an HBS case. It is available for free online here.
tags: Internet | Marketing | Social Networking | Publishing | Wikipedia | HBS | Academics |