Tag Archives: corporate prediction markets

Do the EPM traders have access to all the primary indicators? Do the top brass really tell everything to the trading employees?

Written by Chris F. Masse on September 14, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Prediction markets: the future of decision-making – Companies are now making business decisions based on information employees provide via internal trading systems. – The Tines of London – 2008-09-04
“We use them ["them" = the enterprise prediction markets] as another point in the decision-making process, alongside asking experts and other business leaders,” said Christina LaComb, a [...]

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Google’s enterprise prediction markets — Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google

Written by Chris F. Masse on March 26, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF file) – by Bo Cowgill, Justin Wolfers, and Eric Zitwewitz – 2008-01-06
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VIDEO — Bo Cowgill on Google’s enterprise prediction markets — O’Reilly Money:Tech
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Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google – (PDF file – PDF [...]

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Best Buy wins the prediction market award of the Year 2007.

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 29, 2007 — Leave a Comment

Jed Christiansen picking up some highlights of the Year 2007:
* Best Buy rolling markets out to every employee
This is one of the most exciting developments of 2007, though something that certainly hasn’t hit the mainstream press, yet. This should be an excellent test of everything that the prediction market community has been discussing for the [...]

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The big consultancy firms that will evangelize our enterprise prediction markets

Written by Chris F. Masse on November 13, 2007 — Leave a Comment

The consultancy firms that are currently researching the enterprise prediction markets are in bold…
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McKinsey – (U.S.A.)