By facilitating direct transactions and interactions between parties, companies like Airbnb, Uber and Facebook are some of the best known – and most profitable – multisided platforms (MSPs) around.…, Q. Why do you think this paper was named a “must read”?, A., There are a lot of scholars these days writing about platform-based businesses like Uber, Facebook, Amazon and Airbnb. They are a very hot topic because they are becoming increasingly important not…, Q. Should every business think about transitioning to a platform-based model?, A., It doesn’t make sense for all companies to transition, but all companies should think about it and know about it, because even if they choose not to do so, they need to think about their competitors…, Q. How is the article being received in the academic and business communities?, A., It seems to be resonating well with managers and executives, and also with educators and scholars. Colleagues around the world are assigning it in business school classes, so that’s fun to know that…, Q. How did you become involved in this research?, A., When I was a doctoral student at Harvard Business School, I started discussing the topic with Andrei, who was one of my advisors, around 2011. He had worked at Intuit for a short time, and we were…, Q. The article features an illustration of a Transformer with the Harvard Business Review logo on its chest. Was that your idea?, A., It wasn’t. The editors liked that the article was about transformation, and they found a freelance artist (Artur Hilger) who used to work for Hasbro creating Transformers. So, he created that custom…
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Thirty graduate students marked an educational and professional milestone at their Graduate Entry Pathway (GEP) Pinning Ceremony at UMass Medical School on Monday, Sept. 9. The members of the GEP…, Graduate Entry Pathway Class of 2022:, Lin Wei Evan Astill Melody Banasiak Hannah Boorstein Daniela Carrasco Jeffrey P. Chhim, MPH Alexandra E. Cole Nathan Comeau Cathleen Theresa Cuddihy Emily Davenport Ezequiel De Leon Estefany Pamela…
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Students will get a chance to embark on a visual tour of our solar system and beyond when a new astronomical observatory opens on South Campus this fall. The facility, which is scheduled to be…, A Generous Gift, The facility will be named Schueller Observatory, in memory of Richard L. Schueller obituary Richard L. Schueller ’86 , an avid amateur astronomer who used to observe with the Celestron telescope…
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U.S. News & World Report 2020 College Rankings released this week recognize UMass Dartmouth for the upward social mobility of its students and again rank the university as a National University.…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the University of Massachusetts Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the…
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The 162 members of the School of Medicine Class of 2023 at UMass Medical School were cloaked in the symbol of the medical profession at the White Coat Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 13, under a tent on…
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A group of local food and beverage companies huddled on campus recently to learn more about sustainable manufacturing and cleaning processes as well as available resources, including grants and…, Turning Waste Into Products, Reducing Toxics , The companies are increasingly looking for ways to reduce waste. For example, Ocean Spray of Middleboro said its popular Craisins are developed from the cranberry hulls left over from extracting…
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Eight faculty members from UMass Boston's College of Liberal Arts have received grants to develop innovative humanities courses as part of UMass Boston's High Impact Humanities Initiative. Support by…, , Danielle Bromwich, , will explore the philosophy of consent, especially to medical procedures and to sexual relations, while Isabel Gómez will interrogate translation and interpretation as tools of both colonization and…, , Elora Chowdhury’s, , Gender, Human Rights, and Global Cinema will learn to interpret the narration of human rights through cinematic representations of inequality, empire, nationalism, and minority rights. Rachel Rubin’s, , The History of Hip Hop and Hip Hop as History will introduce students to the Healey Library’s recently-acquired hip hop archive, where they will carry out an analytical project. Imagine taking a…, , Shaman Hatley, , will combine contemplative and creative practices to explore traditional and modern meditation practices derived from Hindu, Buddhist, and Daoist traditions. Rafael Jaen’s, , Enlivening Identities through Dress studies the role of costuming in activities such as historical reenactment, cosplay, dance, and theater. Queer Literary Histories, taught by Aaron Lecklider, will…
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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will welcome an outstanding academic entering class, and the largest in university history, when students return to the Commonwealth’s…
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UMass Dartmouth researchers have been awarded a $2,116,315 grant by the National Science Foundation to help elementary school teachers integrate problem-solving skills common for computer programming…
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