{"id":1337,"date":"2021-09-21T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T19:52:47","slug":"amazon-aggregators-are-walking-into-the-dragons-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/2021\/09\/21\/amazon-aggregators-are-walking-into-the-dragons-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Hagiu &#8211; Financial Times &#8211; Amazon aggregators are walking into the dragon\u2019s cave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FT article sites research from Andrei Hagiu, Associate Professor, Information Systems and Dean&#8217;s Research Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazon has many ways of squeezing margins out of merchants. The ecommerce company entices as many sellers as possible on to its platform to sharpen price competition.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/abbf6bc2-93f1-4cbc-b596-9a7e6f814cfb?accessToken=zwAAAXwI3aVgkdOrv2vCk_FMvNO1lpp-b4FM-w.MEUCIF3i1jPDMZWEcys-jtXZry7VHVaAKqRyOSJqwHIG92c6AiEA-TiqavOI0BtzHFG50et9iXw20sg91XeSzB1AVTYkRr8&amp;sharetype=gift?token=ebb568f0-cc0d-4647-9f0c-af1aded80218\" class=\"button\">Read the Article in FT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/05\/dont-let-platforms-commoditize-your-business\" class=\"button\">Read the Article in HBS<\/a><br \/>\nRead the HBS article <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2021\/05\/dont-let-platforms-commoditize-your-business\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/profile\/132\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"100\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/dbi\/files\/2020\/04\/Andrei-Hagiu-8205-424x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Andrei Hagiu<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Faculty Director, Digital Business Institute<br \/>\r\nDean&#8217;s Research Scholar, Professor of Information Systems<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FT article sites research from Andrei Hagiu, Associate Professor, Information Systems and Dean&#8217;s Research Scholar. &#8220;Amazon has many ways of squeezing margins out of merchants. The ecommerce company entices as many sellers as possible on to its platform to sharpen price competition.&#8221; Read the HBS article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}