Andrei
Hagiu
Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Specializing in strategy for marketplaces, platforms, and AI-based businesses.
Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Specializing in strategy for marketplaces, platforms, and AI-based businesses.
Andrei Hagiu is a Professor of Information Systems at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Strategy group at Harvard Business School and in the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan. Andrei holds a PhD in economics from Princeton University.
Andrei’s research and teaching focus on businesses driven by network effects (e.g., Airbnb, Amazon, Meta, Uber) and data feedback loops (e.g., Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Tesla). He leverages the insights from his research to advise and angel invest in startups attempting to build marketplaces or data-enabled products, and to consult with companies seeking to turn their products into platforms.
Curriculum VitaeWhy do rational users join a platform that ultimately makes them worse off?
Analyzes the AI technology stack to evaluate the potential for market concentration and competition policy challenges.
(with Julian Wright) December 2025
A framework for distinguishing high-potential marketplaces from those destined to fail, focusing on the defensibility of their network effects.
(with Julian Wright) July-August 2024
Why do buyers and sellers bypass marketplaces after using them to connect, and what can the marketplaces do to combat such leakage?
What are the economic factors that determine the competitive advantage firms can obtain when using customer data to continuously improve their products?