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What's Your Google Strategy
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.Artículo HBS-R0904F-EDirección estratégicaThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Multisided platforms can lower your transaction costs and increase customer reach. But powerful MSPs like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have also tended to extract most of the value from their platforms, mainly because companies that played with them didn't adequate...Desde 8,20 €
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What's Your Google Strategy? (Spanish version)
Hagiu, Andrei; Yoffie, David B.Artículo HBS-R0904FDirección estratégica(1) Whether to play with existing MSPs, build their own platform, or do both; (2) once they've concluded that at least one third-party MSP can benefit their business, deciding how many to join; and (3) figuring out how to play - that is, which features or services they should adopt and which they should reject in order to maintain their company's competitive advantage. Some companies that lack the power to influence an MSP's actions may have few...Desde 8,20 €
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Staged Solution to the Catch-22
Hagiu, Andrei; Eisenmann, Thomas R.Artículo HBS-F0711B-EDirección estratégicaCompanies looking to launch a two-sided platform--between, for example, credit card users and merchants or search engine users and advertisers--must overcome the reluctance of one side to sign on until it's confident the other side will be well populated. It's a common business quandary, but Google and Charles Schwab both found a way around it.Desde 8,20 €
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Finding the Platform in Your Product
Hagiu, Andrei; Altman, Elizabeth J.Artículo HBS-R1704G-EDirección estratégicaFive of the 10 most valuable companies in the world today--Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft--derive much of their worth from their multisided platforms, which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance, Airbnb is now worth more than Marriott, the world's largest hotel chain. However, companies that w...Desde 8,20 €
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Network Effects Aren't Enough
Hagiu, Andrei; Rothman, SimonArtículo HBS-R1604D-EIniciativa emprendedoraIn many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects. Yet online marketplaces remain extremely difficult to build, say Andrei Hagiu ...Desde 8,20 €
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Do You Really Want to Be an eBay
Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, JulianArtículo HBS-R1303J-EDirección estratégicaLured by the success of marketplaces such as eBay, many companies have tried operating as multisided platforms, which let buyers and sellers transact directly with one another. But resellers--which acquire and then resell products and services--often fare better. To determine the right position on the continuum between pure reseller and pure multisided platform, companies must consider four factors: 1) Scale effects. Amazon draws on its formidabl...Desde 8,20 €
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When Data Creates Competitive Advantage...And When It Doesn't
Hagiu, Andrei; Wright, JulianArtículo HBS-R2001G-EDirección estratégicaMany executives assume that customer data can give you an unbeatable competitive edge. The more customers you have, the more data you can gather, and that data, when analyzed, allows you to offer a better product that attracts more customers. You can then collect even more data, repeating the cycle until you eventually marginalize your competitors. But this thinking is usually wrong. Though the virtuous cycles of data-enabled learning may look si...Desde 8,20 €