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- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54546 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca Abstract—Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
adjacent industries, where other platforms might be poised to strike (e.g., smart phones moving into the PDA industry); and conversely, spotting expansion opportunities in adjacent industries (e.g., NTT...
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- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
pursuing growth strategies in adjacent markets or new geographies should consider how similar the needs of new customers are to those of existing customers. Offering complements also allows incumbents to reach additional customer groups....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
disruptive attack. The next place to look for overserved customers is in adjacent markets where competitors might be creating an opening for a disruptive assault by overserving their customers. How should companies determine whether...
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- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot's days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already history, demolished and...
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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
supporting the development of firms in the adjacent hardware and software communities. By following a successful and focused niche strategy, NVIDIA built a firm foundation for the next step: the transformation of its niche into an...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
performance. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55388 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca Abstract—Dominant platform businesses often develop products in View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
involves subsidizing one user group and profiting from the other. The second challenge is coping with winner-take-all dynamics that often prevail in markets with network effects. The third challenge is "platform envelopment," which occurs when a platform...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
followed a more linear, steady model rather than a more dramatic curve.) The invasion theory, meanwhile, predicts that neighborhoods tend to improve like tipping dominoes, with nicer neighborhoods inspiring positive changes in adjacent...
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- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual (Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
neuroscience, strong progress has been made in understanding how neuroscience can inform consumer decision making. Here, we sketch the development of this discipline and compare it to that of the adjacent field of neuroeconomics. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
have more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Further, relative to adjacent periods, the evidence is concentrated in the two calendar quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election, consistent with heightened incentives for firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
to public transit. A business park may be two miles from the nearest train station, but it is effectively adjacent to that station if PRT provides an on-demand, non-stop, four-minute connection from transit platform to building lobby....
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:...
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- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
These companies need to maximize the utilization rate of their assets. Airbnb doesn't have any of these assets. By the nature of its platform, the company can go into new aspects of the customer value chain without putting much money up front. And that's why it has...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents...
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Sean Silverthorne