Topic: Platforms

Alum Advisor, Lynch, Quoted on Pandora/SoundCloud Deal

October 2018

Autonomous Vehicle and its Value Creation to User Experience with Robin Hwang T’18

The promise of autonomous vehicles is immense and the race to build the dominant platform is in full swing in Silicon Vally and around the globe. Howe...

Consumer Internet & the Strategic Importance of Hardware with Jodine Gordon T’18

As software eats the world, what role does hardware play in enabling business strategy? MBA Fellow, Jodine Gordon T’18 tackled that question in her ...

McNamee T’82 Talks Facebook Regulation

June 2018

A Toolkit for Legacy Retailers to Optimize Their Digital Shopper Engagement

Stephanie Yera T’18, MBA Fellow with the CDS, conducted research designed to help legacy retailers understand the threat from e-commerce players...

Babylon Video: Product Design and Expansion in the Online Video Industry

Babylon Video: Product Design and Expansion in the Online Video Industry Professor Alva Taylor, Geoff Mattei (T’12 and Alumni Fellow of the Center f...

McNamee T’82 Lays Out Way to Fix Facebook

February 2018

Facebook Digital Drop-In

Alumni Fellow, Jonathan Lewis T’11 Product Manager, Experimentation Products Facebook About Jonathan Jonathan is a Product Manager, Experimentation ...

Center Co-Founder Warns Amazon on Abusing Power

February 2018

Tech Bytes: January 31

Patrick Wheeler, Assistant Director

On: January 31st, 2018

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Get Into Healthcare While it’s no surprise that Amazon is getting into the healthcare space – they’ve been...

Center Co-Founder Explains Brain Hacking with Bill Maher on HBO

January 2018

2018 Bold Digital Predictions from Our Students

Ross Dutille, Program Coordinator

On: January 18th, 2018

As students return from break and we enter a new calendar year, it’s always fun to brainstorm and jot down your predictions of what may happen ...

Roger McNamee T’82 Compares Tech Giants to the Food Industry in the 50’s

December 2017

Measuring Data in a Cross-Platform World

David Chemerow T’75 talks about the many ways data is helping media companies make better decisions. At comScore, and previously as COO and CFO ...

Measuring Data in a Cross-Platform World

David Chemerow T’75 Former Chief Revenue Officer, comScore Former COO and CFO, Rentrak Join CDS Alumni Advisor and former CRO of comScore, David Che...

Product Sequencing, Vertical Integration, and Integrative Capabilities in Platform Ecosystems

Professor Constance Helfat Academy of Management Annual Meeting Chicago, IL August 2017

How MuleSoft Connects the World’s Applications, Data, and Devices

As businesses become more complex, so do their software applications, systems, and hardware. Connecting disparate IT systems is incredibly difficult. ...

Snap Inc’s Future

Aditya Srivastava, Marketing and Research Intern

On: October 16th, 2017

Snap Inc is the parent company of the Snapchat, a social media image messaging mobile application. Snap Inc went public on the New York Stock Exchange...

McNamee T’82 Urges Zuckerberg, in Blog, to Come Clean

October 2017

Center Co-Founder Says It’s Only Getting Worse for Facebook

October 2017

Tech Bytes: 10.03.2017

Patrick Wheeler, Assistant Director

On: October 3rd, 2017

Russian Operatives Used Corporate America’s Playbook to Target Voters New evidence shows that Russian operatives used the Facebook Custom Audiences ...

McNamee T’82 Tells Us Facebook and Google Thrive off Emotions

September 2017

Tech Bytes: 09.20.2017

Patrick Wheeler, Assistant Director

On: September 20th, 2017

Facebook’s Very Big Problem With Ads Platform Two major stories are causing heartburn for the Menlo Park social platform. The first, that Special Co...

Kickstarter: Perry Chen | You Should Listen To This

Ross A. Dutille, Program Coordinator

On: September 6th, 2017

On this live podcast from NPR’s “How I Built This”, Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen talks about how the idea came about to start ...