Intellectual Capital

MPD has invested in substantial intellectual capital which provides the bedrock for our investment, advisory, and management consulting work.

Books

MPD’s founders have collaborated on researching and writing seven widely read and cited books on platform economics, payments, and the digital economy. Four were published by Harvard Business Review Press or MIT Press, two were award-winners, and were translated into multiple languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and French.

Articles

MPD’s founders have also written numerous scholarly articles that have developed the theory and application of multisided platforms or apply this to key aspects of the digital economy or payments. These articles have been highly influential with tens of thousands of citations in the professional literature.

Protected: The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

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David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

Protected: Designing the Right Product Offerings

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David S. Evans and Karen L. Webster

Protected: Failure to Launch: Critical Mass in Platform Businesses

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David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee

Protected: How Catalysts Ignite: The Economics of Platform-Based Startups

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David S. Evans

Protected: Finding the Digital Economy’s Product Market FIT

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Karen Webster

Frameworks

MPD’s founders use insights from their research to develop proprietary frameworks for identifying platform opportunities; designing, igniting, growing platform businesses; and protecting existing businesses from platform disruptors.
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Catalyst Framework
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FIT Framework

Data

Through its partnership with PYMNTS Intelligence, MPD has access to data from hundreds of thousands of respondents around, the world, collected since at least 2020, on most sectors of the digital economy and payments including FinTechs.