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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-027.pdf Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Due to network effects and switching... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2005 (Revised February 2006)
  • Case

Monster Networking

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
The management at Monster.com, the leading U.S. provider of online recruitment services, must decide how to proceed with Monster Networking (MN), a new business launched in late 2003. MN helps users identify other individuals who can offer career advice. Monster.com... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Service Industry; Employment Industry; United States
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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

New businesses often struggle finding their first customers. The challenge is even more difficult with startups in the sharing economy that launch as platforms connecting independent service providers with consumers. Take Uber. Its View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

First 1,000 Customers, we explored how these two-sided platforms got their start and attracted a significant number of early adopters based on a Harvard Business School case that professor Teixeira wrote with Morgan Brown. “Airbnb... View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

applying for job opportunities, particularly more advanced, higher-paying positions, because they’re concerned they aren’t qualified enough, whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific job requirements as... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Web

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Bill Kerr Employers can benefit by remapping their talent strategies to match the realities of workers with caregiving responsibilities. Bill Kerr is joined by his Managing the Future of Work co-chair and podcast co-host, Joe Fuller, lead... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2020-2022); Assistant Professor (2022-) Dissertation: Market Design for Matching and Auctions Advisors: Scott Duke Kominers , Emmanuel Farhi , Jerry R. Green , Stefanie Stantcheva... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Firm Visibility and Acquisition Likelihood: Evidence from Seeking Alpha Coverage

By: Pu Gu, Benjamin Yost and Yuan Zou
This study investigates whether social media coverage influences a firm’s likelihood of being acquired. Specifically, we hypothesize that coverage of a firm on the Seeking Alpha platform raises its visibility to potential acquirers and M&A advisers (i.e., investment... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; Mergers and Acquisitions; Marketplace Matching; Investment Banking
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  • Web

Managing the Future of Work

quit makes for better job matches 20 NOV 2024 | MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK Thinking of employees as 'hiring' their jobs opens the way to a detailed analysis of worker motivations, frustrations, and long-term goals, which can reduce... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

Research Areas - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Research Areas 23ms HBS faculty conduct research on a wide variety of topics. In the application you must indicate your top three choices of research areas, in order of preference, from the topics listed below. Top... View Details
  • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details
Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Information featured in The New Yorker Kodak's Old-School Response to Disruption By: Ryan Raffaelli More Information HBS Working Knowledge CEOs and Coaches How Important is Organizational 'Fit'? By: Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik How big a factor is View Details
  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Team in a Startup Culture.” Industry Access Fellows build a network of connections across the life science industry in various ways. They are matched with Key Advisory Board members who serve as their mentors throughout the program and... View Details
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

market. We present statistics on the activity in these market mechanisms and present survey evidence that both mechanisms have facilitated matches. The paper concludes by discussing the emergence of platforms for transmitting job market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Policy 54, no. 1 (January 2025). Mercado Bitcoin: M&A, IPO, or Series B? By: Raymond Kluender , Emanuele Colonnelli and Sabrina Howell November 2024 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 825-047. In April 2021, Brazilian cryptocurrency View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Endless Possibilities

offers five choices, with 70 percent choosing monogamy (other options include “ethical non-monogamy” and “open to exploring”). “Tinder won’t tell you who to date or how to date,” says Iosotaluno, a longtime consumer tech executive who was previously chief strategy... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Case 713-447 In 2012, GREE was one of the world's most profitable mobile social gaming companies. Its success in Japan was due both to its in-house games and to the development platform that it offered to third-party game developers. Its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne