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Strategies for Two-Sided Markets
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Parker, Geoffrey; Van Alstyne, Marshall W.Article HBS-R0610F-EStrategyIf you listed the blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape, you'd find that many of them tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Case in point: The most important innovation in financial services since World War II is almost certainly the credit card, which links consumers and merchants. The list would also include newspapers, HMOs, and computer operating systems--all of which serve what ...Starting at €8.20
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ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia
Reinert, Sophus A.; Nam, Sarah; Pan, Sisi; Werker, EricCase HBS-718029-EEconomicsDuring the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, General Manager of Corporate Responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand was the sheer tragedy of the calamity that struck the poverty-stricken country, recently emerged from a long and painful civil war; on the other, the fact that ArcelorMittal's mining...Starting at €8.20