Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Author "Hagiu, Andrei"

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    • Enabling Versus Controlling 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, Julian (2015-07-21)
      In an increasing number of industries, firms choose how much control to give professionals over the provision of their services to clients. We study the tradeoffs that arise in choosing between a traditional mode (where ...

    • Enabling Versus Controlling - Online Appendix 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, Julian (2015-07-21)
      This online appendix contains the derivation of the closed form solutions for the examples used in the main paper. It also details the numerical analysis performed to check the robustness of the first part of Corollary 1 ...

    • Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Halaburda, Hanna (Elsevier, 2014)
      We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. ...

    • Marketplace or Reseller? 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, Julian (INFORMS, 2015-04-03)
      Intermediaries can choose between functioning as a marketplace (on which suppliers sell their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as ...

    • Multi-Product Duopoly With Cross-Product Cost Interdependencies 

      Biglaiser, Gary; Hagiu, Andrei (2015-07-22)
      Many multi-product firms incur a complexity fixed cost when offering different product lines in different quality tiers relative to the case when offering all products lines in the same quality tier (high or low). Such ...

    • Multi-Sided Platforms 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, Julian (Elsevier, 2015-05-19)
      We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP) business model, relative to three traditional alternatives: vertically integrated ...

    • The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David Bruce (American Economic Association, 2013)
      The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent ...

    • Search Diversion and Platform Competition 

      Hagiu, Andrei; Jullien, Bruno (Elsevier, 2014)
      Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads ...