Illustration by Andrew Rae During a February ride in San Francisco, Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, was recorded arguing with and eventually berating an Uber driver from the back seat of his car. The driver, who had been working with the company since 2011, accused Kalanick of…

The Emerging Platform Economy Series No. 3 Report | November 4, 2016 By Dr. Peter C. Evans “The Rise of Asian Platforms: A Regional Survey” is the first comprehensive survey to examine platform companies across Asia. The regions explored include Northeast Asia, China, India and Southeast Asia. The…

Platform Innovation // Blog By Erik Zambrano on January 30, 2015 Forbes Most Promising Companies of 2015 Forbes recently released their list of America’s 100 Most Promising Companies of 2015. Instacart , a grocery shopping and delivery services platform topped the list. Seventeen other platform…

What do Airbnb, Uber, Google, Facebook, YouTube, eBay, Alibaba, PayPal have in common apart from the fact that they are some of the most valuable start-ups of the recent (or coming) years? They are all platforms businesses! The success of these envied companies has made the platform business model…

"Every business is a digital business," said Accenture CTO Paul Daugherty in his opening keynote at today's MIT Platform Strategy Summit . The statement, he said, is almost trite by now -- "I'm preaching to the choir," he told the crowd. But trite or not, the statement has more implications than…

jennifer maravillas FOR HBR The on-demand economy is large, and getting larger. Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the…

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