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  • 26 Jan 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Scalability and Strategic Use of Platform Investment

Keywords: by Jin Li, Gary P. Pisano, and Feng Zhu

    Platform for Dialogue

    My year at Harvard Business School as the Newcomen Fellow in Business History was transformative for my research, teaching, and outlook on scholarship for the twenty-first century. The fellowship not only provided me with unparalleled... View Details
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein and Francesco Rullani
    For a wide class of crowdfunding approaches, we argue that the reward structure (for funders) is closer to that of charitable donations to public goods than it is to traditional entrepreneurial finance. Many features of the design of crowdfunding platforms can... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdfunding Platforms; Entrepreneurial Finance; Free-riding; Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods; Online Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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    Boudreau, Kevin J., Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein, and Francesco Rullani. "Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-038, September 2015.
    • January–February 2019
    • Article

    Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't

    By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
    In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What, then, allows platforms to fight off rivals and grow... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy
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    Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 118–125.

      Service Productivity Management

      Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates... View Details
      • April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
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      Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

      By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad
      Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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      Sandino, Tatiana, Emil Dy, and Samuel Grad. "Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 124-091, April 2024. (Revised November 2024.)
      • October 2016
      • Case

      Addicaid: Scaling a Digital Platform for Addiction Wellness and Recovery

      By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta
      In 2013, Sam Frons founded Addicaid—a mobile application (app) that allowed people in addiction recovery to track their progress, check in with counselors, and connect with others in recovery programs. The app was grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy and used the... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Health Interventions; Substance Use Disorder; Addiction Treatment; Addiction Recovery; Scale; Innovation; Health; Health Disorders; Health Industry; New York (city, NY)
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      Huckman, Robert S., and Sarah Mehta. "Addicaid: Scaling a Digital Platform for Addiction Wellness and Recovery." Harvard Business School Case 617-018, October 2016.
      • 16 Feb 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

      Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products
      • February 2000 (Revised April 2005)
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      Gray Security: Building a South African Services Firm

      Describes Gray Security Services, an entrepreneurial South African firm that has recently gone through a financial restructuring with the help of Brait Capital Partners, a private equity firm. Gray provides complete security services to companies in South Africa, other... View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; South Africa
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      Kuemmerle, Walter, William J. Coughlin Jr., and Chad S Ellis. "Gray Security: Building a South African Services Firm." Harvard Business School Case 800-193, February 2000. (Revised April 2005.)
      • 22 Mar 2011
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      Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information

      Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Technology
      • 12 Feb 2009
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      Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

      Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda; Computer
      • 2006
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      Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

      By: H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
      Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific... View Details
      Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Economics; Operations; Mathematical Methods
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      Sherman, H. David, and Joe Zhu. Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis. Boston, MA: Springer, 2006.
      • 2008
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      Contracting for Servicizing

      By: Michael W. Toffel
      Servicizing, a novel business practice that sells product functionality rather than products, has been touted as an environmentally beneficial business practice. This paper describes how servicizing transactions mitigate some problems associated with sales... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Contracts; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Sales
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      Toffel, Michael W. "Contracting for Servicizing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-063, February 2008. (February 2008.)
      • 24 Apr 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Managing Alignment as a Process

      corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
      • 11 Apr 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Financial Services 24/7

      Juno Online Services in an effort to attract more clients, and it is banking on retaining customers by offering benefits such as discounts when using a Wingspanbank credit card... View Details
      Keywords: by Susan Young
      • 24 Apr 2014
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      Using technology to create a platform for discussion

      online membership. “We wanted to offer a platform where people can talk about gender issues on campus and create a supportive environment,” she says. Expressing View Details
      • 2010
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      Employee Selection as a Control System

      By: Dennis Campbell
      Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Decision Making; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Management Systems; Financial Services Industry
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      Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-021, August 2010. (Revised September 2010, April 2012.)
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      Employee Selection as a Control System

      By: Dennis Campbell
      Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
      Keywords: Management Systems; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Motivation and Incentives; Decision Making; Business Model
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      Campbell, Dennis. "Employee Selection as a Control System." Journal of Accounting Research 50, no. 4 (September 2012): 931–966.
      • 11 Jun 2013
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      ‘Financialization’ as a Cause of Economic Malaise

      • 01 Sep 2013
      • News

      Beantown as a Beacon

      replicated elsewhere. Here are a few Boston-born ideas highlighted by the event's panelists that appear ready for export. TWO BIRDS, ONE JOB Attacking poverty and a national labor shortage While serving... View Details
      Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
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