Platforms

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

Operators of platforms must balance market health and power dynamics in determining who sets prices.

Experts consider whether early-entrant platform businesses like Uber and Netflix have lost their first-mover advantage.

Based on their research, the authors share four key ways companies can advance their strategic data-sharing initiatives.

Smaller, often more private and interactive online communities and platforms are reinventing the way brands and consumers connect.

Five building blocks of ecosystem governance help leaders create value and manage risk.

Ecosystem success requires that both leaders and followers avoid the trap of egocentric thinking.

Robert Chesnut, Airbnb’s first chief ethics officer, shares his experience shaping ethical technology policies.

Barry Libert, CEO of AIMatters, describes how subscription models and a platform-first mindset can help organizations define valuable new offerings for customers.

New research on retail profitability, the promise of platform-based business models, and retraining employees to meet revised strategic priorities.

There’s power in integrating subscription-based software, platform marketplaces, and machine learning.

Conventional thinking says platforms must scale fast, but that can be unwise in the face of regulatory risk.

Digital collaboration tools don’t just facilitate knowledge sharing — they reveal who knows what.

Preserving public trust, evaluating a female-focused recession, and regulating a tech crisis.

While livestreamed shopping is booming in China, it has struggled to take off in the West.

Platform companies should act quickly to temper regulation that erodes network effects.

To make social platforms a more positive force, we must understand the phenomena that drive them.

The “sharing economy” has fallen short of its promise to workers. A new book proposes a better way.

Digital ecosystem growth depends on two partnering capabilities: digital readiness and curation.

Companies and leaders must strive to build business models using three key components for growth.