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.
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.
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 :)
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. :)
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?
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
Jul 17 '07 by
if only i had a way to make a video other than a very short one on my digital camera :-\