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Is Business Broken?The High Stakes of the AI Economy, Live from the WBUR FestivalAI promises massive gains in productivity and a flourishing of goods and services—but also poses consequences for jobs, corporate power, and society. There will be winners and losers. Today, we're asking: How do we strike the balance between innovation and safety, between competition and concentration, between policy and industry regulation?At a live event as part of the WBUR Festival, host Curt Nickisch speaks to:Divya Sridhar - Vice President, Global Privacy Division & Privacy Operations, BBB National ProgramsAsu Ozdaglar - Department Head, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Deputy Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of...2025-07-0338 min
Work For HumansHow Platforms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work | Andrei HagiuIf work is a product, and employees are customers of that product, then every company is a multi-sided business, one that must serve both consumers and workers. According to platform economist Andrei Hagiu, how companies design that experience, how they structure control, pricing, and participation, matters more than we realize. He has spent his career studying the world’s most influential platforms, from Uber and Airbnb to Apple and Amazon. In this episode, Dart and Andrei explore what platform strategy can teach us about modern work design, why the “employee vs. contractor” debate is outdated, when it is efficient to giv...2025-05-2759 min
Everything MarketplacesLeading Marketplace Research & Academic Insights With Andrei HagiuThe Everything Marketplaces podcast is an audio version of our group chats. This episode is with Andrei Hagiu, who's a leading marketplace researcher and currently an Associate Professor at Boston University. Andrei has also published numerous academic research papers on marketplaces, along with posts on his Substack that are commonly referenced.
Andrei on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/theplatformguy
Andrei's Substack: https://platformchronicles.substack.com
Mike (Yoroomie) on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/yoroomie
Everything Marketplaces: https://www.everythingmarketplaces.com2024-05-2433 min
Outthinkers#92—Elizabeth Altman: Rethinking the Definition of a Workforce in the Modern EraDr. Elizabeth J. Altman is an associate professor of management at the Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and guest editor of the MIT Sloan Management Review Future of the Workforce project. Altman served as a visiting assistant professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point in Fall 2018 and has served as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. Altman teaches strategy, organizational theory, and human resources management in undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs. Her research focuses on strategy, innovation, platform businesses and ecosystems, leadership in the digital economy, organizational identity, and organizational change.2023-06-0231 min
Decoding DigitalDecoding Platform Companies: Andrei Hagiu on Platform Strategy and Building Your Business“I skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.” – Wayne GretzkyWhen Andrei Hagiu wrote a Harvard Business Review case study on AppDirect, he used this quote from Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky to show the mindset each founder should have before starting their company. Andrei is an expert in platform strategy and started a career in academics as an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, as well as at MIT Sloan. Andrei's research and teaching focus entirely on platform businesses (e.g., Airbnb, Amazon.com, Facebook, etc.) and their unique strate...2023-04-0437 min
El Efecto VerneE1 - Los Datos, Una Ventaja Competitiva#HablemosDeData - 20mil Leguas (Por Medir) - Episodio 1Andrei Hagiu y Julian Wright, autores del artículo “When Data Creates Competitive Advantage” publicado por #HarvardBusinessReviewMagazine, creen que los datos proporcionan ventajas competitivas; así como se da en una red social, entre más personas generen datos, mayor será su valor para quienes los analizan. Sin embargo, las empresas sobreestiman enormemente esa ventaja porque, no han logrado comprender que, en las condiciones adecuadas, los datos pueden ayudarlos a construir defensas reputacionales.En buho™ llevamos más de 10 años apostándole a la transformación de las industrias d...2020-03-1839 min
Startup GrindUsing Economics to Win with Simon Rothman, Andrei Hagiu, and Al RothToday we have a great panel discussion between Simon Rothman, Partner at Greylock VC, Andrei Hagiu of the Harvard Business School, and Al Roth Nobel prize winning economist. Simon is a partner at Reid Hoffmans Greylock Venture Capital firm where he oversees their marketplace investments in companies like lyft and sprig. before greyloc simon built eBay motors from the ground up into a 14 billion a year global business. Andrei Hagiu is a professor in the strategy group at the Harvard Business School and prinicipal at Market Platform Dynamics. Andrei received a PHD in economics from Pr...2016-05-2333 min
Engage Free Audiobook in Newspapers & Magazines, BusinessNetwork Effects Aren't Enough by Andrei Hagiu | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Network Effects Aren't Enough
Author: Andrei Hagiu, Simon Rothman
Narrator: Fleet Cooper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-23-16
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Genres: Newspapers & Magazines, Business
Summary:
In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they just facilitate transactions between suppliers and customers rather than take possession of or full responsibility for products or services, they have very low cost structures and very high gross margins - 70% for eBay, 60% for Etsy. And network effects make them highly defensible. Alibaba, Craigslist, eBay, and...2016-03-2328 min
Get the Popular Titles Audiobooks in Business, Career SkillsHarvard Business Review, March 2013 Audiobook by Harvard Business ReviewListen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go tohttp://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: Harvard Business Review, March 2013
Author: Harvard Business Review
Narrator: Todd Mundt
Format: Highlights
Length: 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-10-13
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
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IDEA WATCH
"Why it Pays to be a Category Creator" by Eddie Yoon and Linda Deeken.
FEATURE ARTICLES
"Big-Bang Disruption" by Larry Downes and Paul F. Nunes.
"The Case for Stealth Innovation" by Paddy Miller and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg.
"Why Fair Value Is the Rule" by Andrei Hagiu...1970-01-0158 min