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My TEDx talk

By Joshua Gans On Jun 18, 2013 · Add Comment · In Entrepreneurship

Filmed last month at TEDxUofT on entrepreneurial strategy. It reflects thinking about that topic that I have done with Fiona Murray and Scott Stern.

Someone later suggested the title of the talk should have been “A Vision for Relief.”

Here are some links to some of the topics touched on:

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Is Apple harming the feature innovation ecosystem?

By Joshua Gans On Jun 11, 2013 · 6 Comments · In Limits, Platforms

Yesterday, Apple announced iOS7, the latest version of its mobile operating system. It was a large change but perhaps the most interesting bit was Apple’s continuation of its rather tense relationship with the app developer community. To be sure, Apple has enabled that community and handed them $10 billion in revenue [...]

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The State of Performance-driven Management in America

On Jun 6, 2013 By Erik Brynjolfsson
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I teach at a School of Management so you won’t be surprised to learn that I think good management can make a huge difference in the performance of companies, and ultimately the economy.  But you may be surprised that there is very little economic research on the effects of management.  Sure, there’s lots of speculation [...]

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A Puzzling Graph on eBook Prices and the DOJ Case

On Jun 6, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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From a preliminary paper by Michael Baye, Babur De los Santo and Matthijs Wildenbeest:

 

What it shows is average book prices over time for paperbacks and then eBooks sold under the agency model and the wholesale model. Now I should stress it is average book  prices [...]

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Fighting back in cybercrime

On Jun 3, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Last year I discussed the economics of spam and suggested:

Seen in that light perhaps we should see [spam] as criminal entrepreneurship. What is great about that is we know a lot about how to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation and so to deal with spam we just need to throw that [...]

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Art wants to be shared

On May 31, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam would like its art to be used properly even if that reduces its commercial opportunities:

Many museums post their collections online, but the Rijksmuseum here has taken the unusual step of offering downloads of high-resolution images at no cost, encouraging the public to copy and transform its [...]

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Revenge Editing and Wikipedia

On May 26, 2013 By Shane Greenstein
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Unless you regularly read Salon, you probably missed last week’s interesting article about anextraordinary case of revenge editing on Wikipedia. This article should matter to anyone who cares about Wikipedia, and, more generally, it should matter to anyone who cares about the long run success of open platforms for accumulating content.

Look, the [...]

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The Anatomy of a Digital Business Negotiation

On May 23, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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The US DOJ’s pursuit of Apple as a “ringleader” in eBook price fixing continues to fascinate me. This week the DOJ released an email exchange between Steve Jobs and James Murdoch (of News Corp) that took place a few days before the launch of the iPad in 2010. [...]

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Tumblr and Yahoo’s portal strategy

On May 20, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Last week I posited that Yahoo were engaging in a renewed portal strategy: basically, trying to be in a position to capture readers’ attention for 30 minutes a day and, as a result, have a regular and manageable sales proposition to advertisers. Today, Yahoo announced it was buying Tumblr [...]

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Google’s Multi-Front War

On May 15, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Today Larry Page at Google IO said he was tired of hearing about how Google is fighting with this company and that.

“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Not every new technology is zero-sum.”

But this was at the tail-end of Google’s keynote at the conference [...]

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