Publications

2006
Other Unpublished Work

Positional Limits to Competitive Allocation: Evidence from Corporate Takeovers

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Keywords: Management; Equality and Inequality

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March 2009 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and David Chen

Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2008 (Revised June 2011)
Case

MySpace

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David T. Chen and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The case, set in late 2007, examines what MySpace—the largest online social network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation,... View Details

Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry

May 2012 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Wikipedia: Project Esperanza

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Andreea Gorbatai and Tiona Zuzul

In October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run on-line encyclopedia which could be freely read and edited by anyone with internet access. Within almost six years of its founding in 2001, the project had attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who had... View Details

Keywords: Web-enabled Application; Internet; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Groups and Teams; Publishing Industry; United States

February 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Case

Zynga (A)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and David Chen

In January 2010 Mark Pincus is deciding how to double the number of Zynga games' players to 500 million without sacrificing profitability. These ambitious growth plans required changes to product, corporate strategy, and customer acquisition and retention. With regard... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Video Game Industry

Article

When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?

By: Hanna Halaburda and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions

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September 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Supplement

Friendster (B)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Carin-Isabel Knoop

2003
Other Unpublished Work

Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets

By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj J. Piskorski

Keywords: Management; Equality and Inequality

February 2009 (Revised September 2013)
Background Note

Your Social Network over Time

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai

December 2006
Article

When More Power Makes Actors Worse Off: Turning a Profit in the American Economy

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Tiziana Casciaro

Keywords: Profit; Economy; United States

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19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2013
Teaching Note

Your Social Network Over Time (TN)

By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai