Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main effect of adopting the gamified... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2022
News

The State of Play

platforms will become ubiquitous, he doesn’t think we’ll ultimately live in a realm that’s purely digital: “I think we’ll end up in a world where the digital is overlaid on the real world, and you can go... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital World: Who Pays? Stephen P.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

in 2015, Sounouvou had recently launched Exportunity, a secure digital marketplace that connects African suppliers with buyers around the world. Through the company’s platform, farmers in Benin can sell their produce to a manufacturer in... View Details

Keywords: April White

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

is to have a digital research infrastructure that is similarly heralded for its excellence. There are many opportunities to digitize the MBA program as well. Can we create a View Details

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53942 From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler Abstract—Online marketplaces have transformed how we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2009
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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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Stock Pitching: company, industry and market research

href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/factset.html">FactSet A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Please see More... View Details

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Israel - Global Activities 2020

a video case with the HBS Online team for the Organizational Leadership course that he and Anthony Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and a C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator, have developed for launch in 2021.... View Details

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
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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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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

The increase largely represented spending on incremental projects, DTx, and IT infrastructure. Key accomplishments in fiscal 2024 included strategy and planning to modernize the IT portfolio, the initial implementation of a new digital... View Details

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

the most interest: “The value of diversification is as true for supply chains as it is for investment portfolios Amazon is just the topic of the article but the same could be said for digital platforms that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

12 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55388 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca Abstract—Dominant platform businesses often... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

way that we think about digital experiences, but also in the ways we think of using our platform for purpose.” “The beauty industry is a $500 billion industry that's been built to make women feel that they... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and processes are likely to lead the merger of such activities as logistics and financial services. This can provide large-scale platforms with common protocols (the precursors of digital View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2024
News

Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

November 2019
Supplement

Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta

This multimedia supplement accompanies the case “Innovation at Uber: the Launch of Express POOL” (case no. 619-003). Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This multimedia supplement... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco

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June 2016 (Revised August 2019)
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Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI

By: David B. Yoffie, Liz Kind and David Ben Shimol

In March 2016, Donna Dubinsky (co-founder and CEO) and Jeff Hawkins (co-founder) were struggling with a key question: Could Numenta be successful in both creating fundamental technology and building a commercial business? Located in Redwood City, CA, Numenta was... View Details