Media

Apart from rigorous scholarly research publications in top academic journals, I enjoy producing content (in written form and interviews) for broader audiences. Here is some recent output, much of it on turbulence in the entertainment and tele-communications industries, but also covering antitrust issues in the tech industry, autonomous cars, and other topics in technology, platforms, and analytics.

Are big tech firms too powerful to regulate?

A TV debate/interview on South Korea's Arirang TV, with William Kovacic and Luigi Zingales

Why do Platforms Succeed?

Platform-enabled marketplaces, and other Internet-based goods and products with digital components and network effects are transforming the very idea of what a business is, how it creates value, and how it should be managed.

Google's China Challenge

An interview with IFCAI Chartered Analyst on Google's troubles in China in 2011.

https://gsm.ucdavis.edu/news/googles-china-challenge


Break Up Big Tech? 

UC Berkeley, I was a Con speaker. 

Regulating Big Tech: Is a Day of Reckoning Coming?

June 2019 Knowledge@Wharton interview with Eric Clemons.

AT&T Time-Warner merger approved ... What next?

We discuss the deep transformation occurring in the media and telecom industries, and what impact, if any, this ruling should have on further events in the industry. 

Audio File

Disney vs. Netflix?

Comcast Is Paying Up for Sky: Now What?

Oct 2018 interview, Knowledge@Wharton

Comcast: Spoilsport for Disney-Fox?

The Future Of TV Content And Distribution

Nelson Granados (USC, writing for Forbes in May 2015) discussed how analytics, including my 2013 Marketing Science paper on the economics of bundling when the products in the bundle are sourced from multiple firms, can be used to predict where the TV content industry is headed. 

A Look Back: How Web Search Ads Emerged, Transformed Business

A retrospective related to my search advertising research (with Jane Feng and David Pennock), which won the INFORMS Journal on Computing's Test of Time Award.

Verizon Buys Yahoo! Now what?

Verizon's $4.48 billion purchase of Yahoo! is complete. In this knowledge@wharton interview (SiriusXM 111) conducted by Dan Loney, Professor Rita McGrath and I discuss how this might or might not improve Verizon's future, and the changing nature of competition in this industry.