Platform Strategy 2026
28 July, Conference
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| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | 0:30 | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 AM | 8:35 AM | 0:05 | Welcome | ||
| 8:35 AM | 10:05 AM | 1:30 | Long Talks | A network approach to interoperability | Guofu Tan |
| The economics of algorithmic personalization: Evidence from an educational technology platform | Emil Palikot Susan Athey Shanjukta Nath Keshav Agrawal Ayush Kanodia |
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| When does algorithm beat data? Gaining momentum in dynamic platform competition | Hanna Halaburda Sarit Markovich Yaron Yehezkel |
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| 10:05 AM | 10:30 AM | 0:25 | Break | ||
| 10:30 AM | 11:30 AM | 1:00 | Short Talks | Platform Power in Healthcare: How EHR Systems Shape Physician Referrals and Competition | Meizi Zhou Bin Gu |
| MS-Bridge: A Deep Multi-Stakeholder Multi-Objective Recommendation Model for Two-Sided Media Platforms | Pan Li | ||||
| Platform-within-Platform: Data Network Effects and Competitive Catch-up | Huiyi Litan Di Zhou Ke Rong |
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| How Fake Review Alerts Help the Platform | Ted Matherly Jared Watson Amna Kirmani |
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| Regression Towards the Mean? Valuations and Investor Returns When Unicorn Platforms Go Public or Are Acquired | Sarah Walker Michael Cusumano Annabelle Gawer David Yoffie |
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| Platform Governance and Automated Enforcement: Evidence from YouTube Content ID | Christian Peukert Sverrir Arnorsson Stefan Bechtold Catherine Tucker |
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| To Conform or Not To Conform: Affiliate Program Design and Recommendations Conformity | Xudong Zheng Itay Fainmesser |
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| Addictive Platform Design: Competition, Awareness, and Regulation | Francesco Decarolis Miguel Risco Carl Christian Groh Rafael Jiménez-Durán Martino Banchio |
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| Focality Dynamics and Platform Competition | Hongxia Ma | ||||
| Just trading opportunists? How crypto token airdrops shape open platform contributions | Georg Schiffner Patrick Pollok Frank Piller |
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| News Consumption, Recommender Systems, and Polarization | Mingduo Zhao | ||||
| 11:30 AM | 12:00 PM | 0:30 | Break | ||
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | 1:00 | Long Talks | How B2B Platforms Evolve Differently: Value Creation, Platform Architecture, and Integration Cost Sharing | Boyoon Chang Georgios Petropoulos Didier Bonnet Geoffrey Parker |
| Sherlocking: The Effect of Platform-Owner Entry on the Competitive Behavior of Third-Party Firms | Benjamin Leyden | ||||
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 1:00 | Lunch | ||
| 2:00 PM | 3:30 PM | 1:30 | Long Talks | Curbing Hidden Advertisements in Children's Videos: The Limits of Platform Policies | Vasundhara Sharma Sumeet Kumar Ashish Agarwal |
| Content Creator Multihoming and Attention Spillovers Across Platforms | Xinzhi Rao Jingyan Dai Yulin Hao Liangfei Qiu |
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| Marketplace or Reseller? Optimal Platform Model under Disintermediation | Danhou Li Jinan Lin |
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| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | 0:30 | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 1:00 | Short Talks | When Competition is Not Zero-Sum: Interview Capacity and Screening Technologies in Matching Platforms | Xi Jing Bin Gu Abraham Seidmann Vera Tilson |
| Supplier Scale, Competition, and Consumer Experience in Platforms | Xueyun Luo Chris Forman Mohammad Rahman |
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| Google AI Overviews and Publisher Traffic: Evidence from a Field Experiment | Saharsh Agarwal Ananya Sen |
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| “Frenemy” of Two Giants: Amazon and Apple | Ksenia Shakhgildyan Muxin Li |
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| Does Generative AI Crowd Out Human Creators? Evidence from Pixiv | Ginger Jin Sueyoul Kim Eungik Lee |
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| Beyond Search: LLM Adoption and Web Traffic Concentration | Cristiana Firullo Samira Gholami Cristobal Cheyre Alessandro Acquisti |
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| The Transmission of Trade Shocks in Digital Markets | Jorge Klinnert | ||||
| Supplier Responses to Platform Recommendations in Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce | Ziwei Cong Yi Chen Yixing Chen Liwen Hou |
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| Platform's Surprise Discounts with Salient Consumers | Chang Dong Rachel Chen Juan Li |
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| Antitrust Enforcement and the Redirection of Platform M&A Strategy | Yangyang Cheng Daniel Sokol Carmelo Cennamo |
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| Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go! How Superstars Influence Content Liquidity on Live Platforms | Dominik Gutt Jens Foerderer Brad Greenwood |
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| 5:00 PM | 5:30 PM | 0:30 | Break | ||
| 5:30 PM | 6:30 PM | 1:00 | Long Talks | Consumer Choice between Recommendation Algorithms - Experimental Evidence | Felix Schleef |
| Privacy Spillovers across Competing Platforms | Raveesh Mayya Jiding Zhang |
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| 7:00 PM | Dinner | Center for Computing and Data Sciences Building 665 Commonwealth Ave, Bosto MA 02215 17th Floor | |||