About me

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 based on platforms (e.g., Airbnb, Amazon, Sony PlayStation, Uber) and on data-enabled learning (e.g., ChatGPT, Google, Tesla). He leverages the insights from his research to advise and angel invest in startups attempting to build platforms and data-enabled products, and to consult with companies seeking to turn their products into platforms.

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