Platform - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2024
Supplement

gWorks (A)

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

Citation

Purchase

August 2022
Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein

In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

reach of providers, and building an information technology platform that supports value-based care. None of it comes easy, due to deep-seated, convoluted systems already in place. “We don't know what it really costs to care for any... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how app developers on the Android mobile View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

host's profile picture is the second-most prominent element on any listing page, displayed next to the default picture of the property.) "Research has shown that when something is more salient, you respond more to it," Luca says. "This is something a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-402 Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable versus unfavorable) and the nature of the relationship between first-party content and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

the Boston area. [Image: BalkansCat ] Related Reading How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms What do great... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

PublicationsWhen Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We present a theory for why it... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

principle and spirit of ethical reciprocity in the definition and pursuit of corporate purpose. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55998 Harvard Business School Case 919-413 Wattpad How to run a View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online channels, 2) creating an open View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

operations to Asia as well. In chapter 4, we will offer a framework for determining when it matters whether R&D and manufacturing are located near each and when it does not. Theme 2: The Industrial Commons Is a Platform for Growth The... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

innovation, we propose several new topic areas—performance trajectories, response strategies and hybrids, platform businesses, and innovation metrics—to guide subsequent empirical work. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

may be able to settle in less-expensive regions and use crowdsourcing software and other platforms to stay on top while giving employees a better quality of life by allowing them to live in areas with lower-priced housing, Kerr says. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

argued it was simply offering a platform for consumers to share. That company was Napster, the MP3 file-sharing service that was forced to shut down in 2001 after losing a legal battle against several major recording companies. “Consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two major ways in which companies have tried to leverage social... View Details

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform updates and generating ideas and initiatives to monetize the use community. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Publications

Publications

Show Results For

Show Results For

Are you looking for?

gWorks (A)

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

July 12, 2016

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

First Look: January 15, 2008

First Look: December 18

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

First Look: December 4

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

First Look: May 27

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

First Look: January 8, 2008

Are you looking for?