Andrei Hagiu is a Principal at Market Platform Dynamics and Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School.

Andrei Hagiu is an expert in the area of software platforms, two-sided strategies and the adoption of both in the Japanese and Chinese markets. He is deeply knowledgeable about the mobile phone industry in Asia, generally, and mobile payment technologies, specifically. He is a research fellow at the Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry, an economic think-tank affiliated with the Japanese Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Professor in the Strategy group at Harvard Business School.

Andrei’s research focuses heavily on two-sided markets. Most recently he has built a theoretical model for studying pricing structures and the organization of two-sided platforms. He is currently applying the insights drawn from this formal work to the analysis of market structure and business strategies in a variety of industries: personal computers, videogames, consumer electronics (mobile phones, PDAs), shopping malls, digital content, etc. He is also involved in competition and industrial policy research projects, in Japan and in the United States.

Andrei graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et Adminstration Economique in France with an M.S. in Economics and Statistics. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.

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