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Ehsan Valavi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets

Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 19-062, University of Connecticut School of Business Research Paper No. 19-06
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2019
Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi and Marco Iansiti
Harvard University - Harvard Business School, University of Connecticut - Department of Operations & Information Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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network interconnectivity, platform competition, market entry

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Time Dependency, Data Flow, and Competitive Advantage

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Apr 2021
Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Marco Iansiti, Newsha Ardalani, Feng Zhu and Karim R. Lakhani
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cerebras Systems, Harvard University - Business School (HBS), Baidu - Baidu Research, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School - Technology and Operations Management Group
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Economics of AI; Value of data; Perishability; Time dependency; Flow of data; Competitive advantage; Data strategy

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Time and the Value of Data

Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 21-016
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 27 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2021
Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cerebras Systems, Baidu - Baidu Research and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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economics of AI, machine learning, non-stationarity, perishability, value depreciation

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Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies

Harvard Business School Research Paper Series
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Oct 2017
Kris Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi
Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Developing countries, agricultural supply chains, intermediation, multiple channels, Walrasian auction

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Explaining Sustained Blockchain Decentralization with Quasi-Experiments: Resource Flexibility of Consensus Mechanisms

MIT Sloan Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 May 2025
Harang Ju, Madhav Kumar, Ehsan Valavi and Sinan Aral
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Are Crypto Ecosystems (De)centralizing? A Framework for Longitudinal Analysis

MIT Sloan Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 03 Jun 2025
Harang Ju, Ehsan Valavi, Madhav Kumar and Sinan Aral
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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