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- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
peers. Across three online experiments and a field experiment of entrepreneurs, we identify an interpersonal strategy that can mitigate feelings of malicious envy in observers: revealing one’s failures. Despite a general reluctance to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
the average American hospital loses $80 million a year in neglected patient referrals and other processing inefficiencies. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s “E-Link”, a secure online platform which streamlines communication...
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April White
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region:...
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- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public...
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Behavioral Economics for Managerial Decision Making - Course Catalog
architecture, platform design, experimental methods, unintended consequences, fairness, and the public good. The course is centered on five themes: Understanding decision-making. How do people make decisions? We discuss the psychology and...
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- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
school years and more recently at Nickelodeon’s strategy department, Patel realized he (like many others) had been consuming media that only confirmed his own political bias and, in so doing, had failed to get the full picture of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power David Yoffie and colleagues reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
with CEO, Tim Williamson, and Director of Product Management, Sara Thomas, (GSB ’09) to develop a strategy for supporting start-ups that have outgrown the early stages of their business and are dealing with challenges of scaling. We...
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Entrepreneurship
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
companies that use stealth positioning adopt a covert approach. They conceal the true nature of their products by affiliating them with a different category. This is a powerful strategy for marketers when a category is in some way...
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by Youngme Moon
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
content has grown quicker than Yelp and TripAdvisor. Overall, these results shed light on platform strategy and market entry: tying can facilitate entry in complementary markets, even when the tied product...
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Dina Gerdeman
- November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
EbonyLife Media (A)
Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast...
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Entrepreneurship;
Mission and Purpose;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Consumer Behavior;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Nigeria;
Africa
Wu, Andy, Feng Zhu, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "EbonyLife Media (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-372, November 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Controlling Versus Enabling
By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the...
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Control Rights;
Decision Authority;
Employment;
Independent Contractors;
Organizational Theory;
Digital Platforms;
Governance Controls;
Ethics;
Vertical Integration
Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Controlling Versus Enabling." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-002, July 2015. (Revised July 2016.)
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
a still-viable business model while simultaneously trying to develop a new platform for growth, it gets pulled in two directions, and both efforts underperform. Kodak, for example, needs to continue to focus on traditional competitors...
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by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows
medicines. Hunter plans to use the Blavatnik Fellowship year to refine strategy and business development for the company’s novel drug delivery platform with his co-founders, Harvard Medical School Professor...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that...
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- October 2001
- Case
Meg Whitman and eBay Germany
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
After acquiring the German online auction company Alando.de, eBay CEO Meg Whitman and her team must integrate Alando's Web site with the company's existing platform. The acquisition is the first step of eBay's journey to become a global trading platform. In addition to...
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Acquisition;
Integration;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Germany
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "Meg Whitman and eBay Germany." Harvard Business School Case 402-006, October 2001.
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality:...
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Sean Silverthorne