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- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic complements View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Brittani Rettig
in that they both require an insane amount of energy. To ensure that I can handle everything on my plate, I have developed a routine of prioritizing what really needs to get done. Another similarity between these jobs is that they both are in the spirit of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea of gray stretching into the haze. No one knows for sure how big metropolitan... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
operating business, like a specialized business field, so they went to companies like Procter or McKinsey, because that was where they could develop more business skills while they hung out and waited for their entrepreneurial... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in marketing parlance,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
The same DVD would take approximately twenty-five hours to download via a standard DSL/cable line (and 170 hours—or more than seven days—via a 56K modem). Genomics and pharmaceuticals are other research arenas that should benefit from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
community voices to set priorities. Despite all of this, even if there is increased national funding for climate change proposals—a big if—there will be tough political choices at the state and local level. To combat sea level rise,... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Industries." One key aspect of the Internet revolution to keep in mind, began Applegate, is that new business models continue to draw on essential information and values that have always driven business. "This is an evolutionary process," she reminded the audience.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
consumption increased by only 6 percent from 2010 to 2018, these sprawling facilities are now on track to double their electricity demand in the next two years, thanks to AI. This energy- intensive boom poses an expensive challenge for View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
own, obviously, the rights to the brand, the Lego brand. And it's going to impact them in a very, very big way. This is not a subbrand. This is not a Ninjago movie, or a Bionicle movie, View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
asks Rose. “How do we create a category?” The Answers: It strikes me that Lovepop embodies the “It’s the thought that counts” approach to gift giving. Sometimes, you just can’t think of a gift that’s just right because you’re trying to give a gift to someone who has... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
as doctoral candidates, our MBA alumni are particularly well suited to ask and answer the big questions tied to the real world of practice. They combine an ambition for big, relevant ideas with an intellectual curiosity and rigor.”... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
and lawsuits—the cases against Uber being just the most visible. As the law stands, state officials deciding these cases face a purely binary choice: workers are either employees or independent contractors, with no in-between. That’s a... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
diffused into the market. The debate was this: Did Microsoft win because its Internet Explorer was the technologically superior product to Netscape Navigator, or was Microsoft just more successful at the distribution end by convincing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
for loved ones, improving the job prospects of disadvantaged young people, or enabling us to communicate in new ways, the successful enterprises built and led by the 2014 awardees have had a deep impact on business and society. Gerald... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
would become very homebound. So we turned our Plan B into a big adventure, choosing to sail around the world as a family while Lily was still portable,” he says. “In 2013, we spent nine months sailing the beautiful islands of the South... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
the other hand, with his line of collectible figurines and collaborations with clothing brands like Dior and Air Jordan, “understands very well how art is communicated, says Deitch. “He is someone who is open to all that, and he’s just... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details