Platform Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

07 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

20 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing... View Details

08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com By: Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu Abstract—Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly. Prior studies have offered two possible explanations for such entries: View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

Keywords: by Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein & David Lazer

21 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

and gaming companies “Video games provide an amazing sandbox to study consumer behavior on digital platforms, as well as the effects of product and platform design on this behavior,” says Simonov. “While the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting

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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

find job opportunities in a startup. SucceedSmart Designed for the discerning HBS alumni, SucceedSmart's advanced career platform is tailored for executives. It combines AI-driven precision with elite career... View Details

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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

address healthcare inequities in the U.S., disparities across race, gender, geography, and income remain stubbornly persistent. This article introduces the Strategic Fingerprint Framework for Health Equity, a practical, principle-based tool View Details

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Research Areas - Doctoral

international ventures; the environments in which entrepreneurs make decisions; and social entrepreneurship. 4. Performance Measurement and Outcomes scholars study drivers and effectiveness of performance measurement and management control systems. 5. Market View Details

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

as the founding CEO. There, Joe raised initial funding, recruited the founding team, and advanced a platform for early cancer detection, culminating in FDA “Breakthrough Device” designation for its ovarian... View Details

01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

development organizations, involved in both research and program design and delivery. This case explores CCL's approach to leadership and management education for executives and presents some of the challenges the CCL faces as many... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

research team studied the expansion of a leading food delivery platform and the resulting rise in fast-food sales to observe how managers adjusted worker staffing to handle spikes in demand. The team analyzed personnel and productivity... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage

05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

Publications August 2013 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy and Competition By: Collis, David Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Podcast - Business & Environment

climate risks. Sarah shares insights from her work building predictive wildfire risk models using satellite imagery, AI, and systems design to enable more targeted insurance underwriting and disaster preparedness. She also explains how... View Details

26 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

Monster.com or Indeed, and others designed specifically to recruit high-quality candidates from racial minority groups. Jackson observed that ShopCo leaders reacted with distaste to recruitment platforms in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

March 2011
Case

MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model

By: Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing and selling its own drugs, but by licensing access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Intellectual Property; Rights; Risk Management; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Vertical Integration; Biotechnology Industry; Munich

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23 Nov 2021
Book

What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

culture as one that provides a platform, in the high-tech sense of that word, one that is designed to foster the ability to learn, adapt, innovate, and change anything, including strategy. It is this kind of View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Strategy Unit. Professor Sadun presented key findings from a joint research effort between the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Digital Reskilling Lab and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Based on interviews... View Details

Winter 2021
Editorial

Introduction

By: Michael A. Wheeler

This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning