Author Archives: Leslie Fine

Quantitative Crowdsourcing

This past fall, we collaborated with researchers from MIT and Harvard Business School to develop and launch the Pharmer’s Market, a prediction market that aggregates the opinions, insight, and experience of a wide range of pharmaceutical professionals to forecast outcomes of drug clinical trials. The market is designed to be a showcase of how pharmaceutical development could run in the future. This concept was born when we agreed on a critical premise: Discovery should be a collective process. That isn’t…