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  • Summer 2014
  • Article

When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Halaburda
We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there... View Details
Keywords: Platform Governance; Direct Network Effects; Indirect Network Effects; Complements; Tragedy Of The Commons; Equilibrium Selection; Coordination; Foresight; Strategy; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Network Effects
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  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • July 2006
  • Article

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Software; Demand-side Learning; Network Effects; Linux; Mixed Duopoly; Competitive Dynamics; Business Models; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Model; Mathematical Methods; Digital Platforms; Profit; Balance and Stability; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; SWOT Analysis; Competition; Price; Information Technology Industry
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  • 2003
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948 – 1974)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
American Honda was founded in 1959 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Honda Motor Company to facilitate sales and distribution in the United States. The details of American Honda’s early history have long served as evidence in debates among scholars and practitioners... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Decision Making; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane: The nature of competition is changing rapidly. Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, and technological change are opening opportunities for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • March 2024
  • Case

RHI Magnesita (A): Brick by Brick—Organic Growth or Another Major Merger?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, David M Wagner, Oliver Gassmann and Jordan Mitchell
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Overview

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Professor Casadesus-Masanell teaches the MBA Required Curriculum Strategy Course, as well as an MBA Elective Curriculum course called, "Competing Through Business Models." View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; China; Europe
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was always constrained, especially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212070-PDF-ENG eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A) Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant ThakerHarvard Business School Case 712-405 This case has been designed to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Strategy and Technology

By: David B. Yoffie

Professor Yoffie’s research examines different aspects of strategy and technology. His most recent research has focused on three areas. The first research topic looks at the dynamics of cooperation and competition among “complements.” In a number of articles and... View Details

  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

software code. In their working paper "Mixed Source," HBS associate professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and postdoctoral fellow Gaston Llanes consider scenarios in which theoretical software firms compete... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

assignment frictions, which appear to be more severe in lower-income regions. The productivity loss generated by inefficient assignment is equal to 13% of the productivity gap between high- and low-income countries in our sample. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

product developers is a mindset. Western designers, who usually create products by following time-tested methods, struggle to overcome the constraints and leverage the freedoms of emerging markets. They tend to fall into common mental... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

and innovate in their business models. HBS professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart present an integrative framework to distinguish and relate the concepts of business model, strategy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

suggests that this model-which tolerates moral complexity-is perhaps one of the few that can adapt and endure over time. Manufacturing Morals is a perceptive must-read for anyone looking for insight into the moral decision making of today's business leaders and those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to avoid that fate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal expectations and scientific and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

Here then are our most-read stories in 2006. Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win? Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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