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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists
By: Benjamin Edelman
The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest...
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Platforms;
Launch;
Mobilization Strategy;
Two-Sided Platforms;
Network Effects;
Adoption;
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology Industry;
Advertising Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 4 (April 2015): 90–97. (Reprinted in Launch a Start-Up That Lasts, Harvard Business Review OnPoint, Winter 2016.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct
By: F. Christopher Eaglin
Under what conditions do firms engage in strategic misconduct? Why do they undertake actions that increase profitability yet break laws or violate strong norms often with costly consequences for public welfare? The strategic management literature offers two external...
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Corporate Misconduct;
Capital Constraints;
Organizations;
Crime and Corruption;
Behavior;
Situation or Environment;
Capital
Eaglin, F. Christopher. "The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-056, February 2022.
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
tier naturally followed them. LESSON THREE: SEQUENCING IS EVERYTHING Uber and Airbnb were also smart about how they chose to expand, picking the right cities at the right time to maximize their success. Since Uber’s main competition was View Details
- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
airport continued to load flights and allow them to taxi to the runway. But conditions didn't clear as expected, and some passengers waited for as long as six hours to return to an open gate. (Planes continued to land in the poor weather;...
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- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
corruption does exist in the United States, where consumers regularly tip restaurant wait staff, taxi drivers, hairdressers and others, Torfason says. "Richer countries tend to have less corruption than poorer countries," he...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
control specialists. A lot of people think of this as disruption, like the taxi industry is being disrupted by Uber. It’s not disruption. Rather, it’s a completely different kind of firm. This hasn’t happened in more than 100 years. Firms...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
service Uber, which has disrupted the highly regulated and often inefficient taxi industry, and expanded to hundreds of cities worldwide. At the same time, the company has been criticized for "surge pricing" that jacks up rates...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Company, said that “cities need to operate more like companies,” meaning they need to learn how to effect, manage, and respond to change quickly. He cited as an example the Uber-fueled ride-hailing movement, which took off in spite of and outside of existing View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
Complicating things further, some of these five allow a range of options—from full control by the firm (vehicles for traditional taxi companies, for example) to minimum requirements by the firm (car age and maintenance for Uber drivers,...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Teixeira, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School in the Marketing unit. But not anymore. The Second Internet Wave A second wave of Internet disruption threatens not only electronics and telecom businesses, but also industries as diverse as View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Business School Case 715-433 Uber and the Taxi Industry (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715433-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-434 UberX & Lyft (B) No abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
been ripe for self-management and there are always people who will poke up their heads and insist on managing themselves. But it isn't a quick fix." Others cited its long-time application in the London taxi system (Andrew Campbell),...
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- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
included innovative image maps. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408097 Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry Harvard Business School Case 808-107 No abstract is available at this...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
says HBS professor emeritus Michael Beer. His new book explains what all companies can learn. Q&A. Can Entrepreneurs Drive 'People Movers' to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal...
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by Staff
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
national leaders are largely paralyzed either by politics or by budgets. In practice, local leaders can often take more pragmatic action, faster. Mayors can influence municipal purchasing, building zoning for density and efficiency, taxi...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
year. But suddenly, she hits political roadblocks-the local Democratic mayor, facing a tough reelection and urged by the local taxi association, calls for more regulation of her business. Erin's board urges her to actively back the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
century? Today, the world’s largest taxi company (Uber) owns no cars; the world’s largest provider of accommodations (Airbnb) owns no real estate; and the world’s largest retailer (Alibaba) owns no inventory. Modern platform thinking has...
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by Martha Lagace