Seeding and Climbing the Adoption Curve

Insights from the MIT Bitcoin experiment and network analysis about seeding and climbing the S-curve

Catherine Tucker and Christian Catalini of MIT Sloan School of Management visited the Harvard Business School Digital Seminar on September 21, 2016. Catherine presented a talk on the role of early adopters in diffusion (click to play video). You can find the paper below.

Seeding the S-Curve? The Role of Early Adopters in Diffusion

Professors Catherine Tucker and Christian Catalini studied the MIT Bitcoin experiment as a way of understanding the needs of early adopters of a new technology.

Identifying Influential and Susceptible Individuals in Social Networks

Now that you know what early adopters need from your product adoption strategy, let Professors Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker show you how to find the people who will carry you up the S-curve.

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