

Multi-Device Consumption of Digital Goods: Optimal Product Line Design with Bundling
Netflix videos, once limited to TV access, are now available across multiple channels (mobile phones, tablets, computers). To determine the optimal approach to bundling and pricing of multi-device digital goods, we have developed an analytical modeling framework that breaks down its complexities.

Indiana Jones 5 Gets Slammed in Reviews - But New Study Suggests Poor Scores Can Lead to Box Office Success
Assistant Professor Pantelis Loupos and MSBA students analyze pre-release reviews
"We wanted to see if we could predict a movie's success based on these reviews. As it turned out, the so-called harbingers of failure did exist," Loupos told the Daily Mail.

Nonprofits and the Paycheck Protection Program
How financial obligations influenced nonprofit loan participation
The U.S. Government extended 12 million loans worth $800 billion to help small business during the pandemic. Assistant Professor Paul Wong examines why some nonprofits didn’t bite.

If it’s Enraging, it is Engaging: Infinite Scrolling in Information Platforms
Many digital platforms, in recent years, have gone under scrutiny for its addictive design that monetizes user engagement as a source of income, as well as for its extreme dissemination of harmful information. Here, we examine the extent to which

Fending Off Critics of Platform Power with Differential Revenue Sharing: Doing Well by Doing Good?
Professor Hemant Bhargava and his co-authors developed a model of platform economics and show that a small-business oriented (SBO) differential revenue sharing design can increase total welfare and outputs on digital platforms.

Pricing On-Demand Services: Alternative Ways of Combining Usage and Access Fees
Countless companies are embracing the "XaaS" model to sell goods and value-added services. In crafting their revenue models, suppliers can opt for per-unit usage fees or per-period access charges, regularly blending the two into a two-part tariff

Differences in Drug Prices by Formulation
For medications available in multiple formulations, are there significant price differences between formulations, and what are the opportunity for savings if prescribers ordering the more expensive formulation switched to the less expensive

The Creator Economy: Managing Ecosystem Supply, Revenue-Sharing, and Platform Design
The “creator economy” model, in which a platform organizes and distributes goods and digital content from numerous creators to millions of viewers, underlies the business model of many dominant firms today (e.g., Snap Games, Twitch, Jinri Toutiao)

Bundling for Flexibility and Variety: An Economic Model for Multi-Producer Value Aggregation
A new business form that is increasingly prominent, especially in platform business models, is an economic structure in which value is co-created by multiple producers and aggregated into a common bundle by a producer-consortium or independent firm

Electronic Medical Records and Physician Productivity: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis
Physician productivity is an important driver of key healthcare outcomes, such as quality of care, treatment costs and patient satisfaction, because physicians influence a vast majority of treatment decisions, and are central to the care delivery

Platform Data Strategy
This paper provides an analysis and guidelines for developing data strategy for different types of platforms, and it identifies promising research opportunities into platform data strategy to better inform future academic research, strategic decision

How Efficient are Decentralized Auction Platforms?
Decentralized auction platforms, such as eBay, have become integral components of today's global economy. In examining the inner workings of such platforms, our analysis reveals that a substantial portion of these auctions—just over one-third—result

Price Transparency and Shopping Decision Aids
Despite the high volume of health care expenditures, it is often characterized by pricing opacity, leaving consumers in the dark when making critical healthcare decisions. Here, we examine the implications of price transparency, that is emerging on

Sales Force Compensation Design for Two-Sided Market Platforms
Mutli-sided platforms typically thrive on the positive feedback loop of indirect network effects. However, many platforms also have to engage in active selling, through the use of sales agents to mobilize network participants. This paper is the first

Mobile Health Technologies
The rapid proliferation of mobile health solutions has slowly integrated into the healthcare landscape, creating medical value through diverse ways. To understand these potential impacts, we propose a more detailed framework, specifically for

Design and implementation of a privacy preserving electronic health record linkage tool in Chicago
Because patients may receive care at multiple institutions within a region, “single-site” studies may under - or over-represent key clinical features such as the number of affected patients, the severity of disease, or the extent of treatment

Platform Technologies and Network Goods: Insights on Product Launch and Management
Entrepreneurs dealing with platform and network goods often grapple with a tough choice: prioritize growth or profitability. This challenge intensifies when they launch just one product, constraining excellence in either direction. To balance this