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Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work
Zhu, Feng; McDonald, Rory; Iansiti, Marco; Smith, AaronCase HBS-616027-EStrategyUpwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online platforms - Elance.com and oDesk.com - independently of one another. However in 2015 the company relaunched as Upwork, with both a new brand and a new platform. The company began to migrate Elance.c...Starting at €8.20
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Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't
Zhu, Feng; Iansiti, MarcoArticle HBS-R1901J-EStrategyIn 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 profits? Their ability to manage five aspects of the networks they're embedded in: (1) Network effects, in which users attract more users; (2) Clustering, or fragmentation into ma...Starting at €8.20
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Aspiring Minds
Lakhani, Karim R.; Iansiti, Marco; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-616013-EStrategyBy 2015, India-based employment assessment and certification provider Aspiring Minds had helped facilitate over 300,000 job matches through its assessment tools. Aspiring Minds' flagship product, the Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine learning algorithms to evaluate the abilities of job seekers and provide feedback by measuring not only skills and knowledge, but also personality and behavior traits. Since its founding in ...Starting at €8.20