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Harvard Business School Threadless Case – We Want Your Videos!

Hey Everyone, Professor Karim Lakhani wants to open up the participation in the Harvard Case Study to the entire Threadless.com community – not just the Boston folks. He is looking for video submissions of you explaining why you design for Threadless.com, why you vote, why you are so active in the blogs and what keeps you coming back. We would like as many members of our community to participate as possible. And to top it off Threadless and HBS will give out prizes to the members with the most creative videos as judged by us and the HBS crew. Below you will find a video invitation from Karim with more details.


Threadless Video Intro from Dave Habeeb and Vimeo.

How to enter:

1 – Create you video.

2 – Upload to vimeo.com.

3 – Embed the link into this thread.

4 – Winners will be announced by August 17th 2007.

If you have any questions please contact the HBS team at threadless@hbs.edu

Because this is done by HBS – there is some legal stuff for you to know about:

Thanks for your interest in the Threadless.com case study project. Professor Karim Lakhani, will use selected videos in an academic business case about Threadless.com. By submitting videos to the contest you are giving permission to Harvard University and any individuals or organizations authorized by Harvard to use them at Harvard or elsewhere and to edit, reproduce, distribute, display and prepare derivative works of the video material in any manner. You may retain all right, title and interest in the video material you provide, and Harvard shall own all right, title and interest in the multimedia case. The case is slated to be first taught at Harvard Business School in Fall 2007.

Upon case completion, Harvard Business School Publishing will add the Threadless.com case to its active commercial catalog and make the case available for purchase by the public. Your participation in the case will not entitle you to royalties or other monetary compensation. Community members whose videos are selected will receive nominal prizes from both Threadless.com and Harvard Business School.

25 Comments

tracerbullet
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tracerbullet
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 16:24:15

awesome!



if only i had a way to make a video other than a very short one on my digital camera :-\

tracerbullet
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tracerbullet
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 16:25:41

oh wait, only one minute? maybe i can do it then...

rhythmdev9
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rhythmdev9
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 21:17:35

pretty cool threadless and acedemia a match made in heaven...

sp0m
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sp0m
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 21:20:58

that last part was fo the ladies

sp0m
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sp0m
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 21:21:06

for..

sp0m
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sp0m
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on Jul 17, 2007
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at 21:21:20

fo might work though.

ir0cko
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ir0cko
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 03:25:58

ooh..

shibby558899
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shibby558899
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 03:33:45

Tomorrow is the first day in a long time that i don't have any definite plans, so I'll probably do this tomorrow.

iotadial
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iotadial
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 13:17:37

do I want to give away trade secrets?

alister
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alister
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 13:36:02

Man, i can think of some cool ideas, but i have no video recorder :(

Archonish
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Archonish
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 15:32:31

yay i live in boston... so can i just go find this guy?



i've got some friends at harvard..

karimlakhani
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karimlakhani
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 15:45:41

iotadial - No trade secrets - just tell us what motivates you to be part of this cool community.

alister - you got have some chums that can help you!

Arconish - Harvard friends are always good to have :)



Fermata
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Fermata
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on Jul 18, 2007
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at 18:51:09

Aaaagh. I'm so doing this. Sometime.

mymil
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mymil
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on Jul 25, 2007
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at 23:17:07

This kind of information would really flesh out some of the work I've done on Threadless (unfortunately just today my webhost started being stupid, so you might need to wait a day to actually read it). I can't wait to see the results!



And now, a question for Karim: Have you read Charles Briggs' 'Learning How to Ask'? If you haven't, you might consider it before trying to interpret the responses you get from this. :)

therecouldbenothingafterThis
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therecouldbenothingafterThis
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on Jul 27, 2007
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at 19:52:07

hmm. i'll throw in my two cents.

karimlakhani
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karimlakhani
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on Jul 30, 2007
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at 08:47:51

mymil - cool attempts at some analysis. - thanks for the heads up on Briggs as well - I will be looking at it for sure..

BrettBretterson
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BrettBretterson
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on Aug 14, 2007
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at 16:21:16

What's the deadline on this?

BrettBretterson
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BrettBretterson
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on Aug 19, 2007
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at 00:37:40

Hah, I'm a fool. I just now noticed the winner announcement date. I don't see any submissions listed here though....

karimlakhani
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karimlakhani
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on Aug 20, 2007
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at 14:34:42

yeah we are still waiting! I hope some of you will submit!

ltdan1504
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ltdan1504
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on Aug 20, 2007
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at 14:40:55

so has anyone sub'd anyhting?

ltdan1504
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ltdan1504
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on Aug 20, 2007
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at 14:40:55

so has anyone sub'd anyhting?

karimlakhani
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karimlakhani
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on Aug 20, 2007
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at 23:16:14

nope :(

BrettBretterson
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BrettBretterson
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on Sep 11, 2007
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at 20:25:42

Ok... I see no one has done this yet and I feel bad so I'd be happy to try and help you out best I can just using the camera on my iMac. Is it too late to submit though?

naisatoh
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naisatoh
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on Sep 12, 2007
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at 11:24:26

I just discovered this blog.. Is this still open for submission?

BrettBretterson
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BrettBretterson
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on Oct 10, 2007
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at 03:00:42

I decided to check on this and it looks like it's a lost cause. If you still want a video Professor Lakhani, you can e-mail me at SendBrettMail (AT) gmail (DOT) com