Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Swiss academic

Felix Oberholzer-Gee is a Swiss academic.^[1] He is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. A member of the faculty since 2003, Professor Oberholzer-Gee received his master's degree, summa cum laude, and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich.^[2]

File sharing

Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf wrote The effect of file sharing on record sales: An empirical analysis, which was published in 2007; and in 2008 was cited during the Pirate Bay trial.

Their analysis indicated that file-sharing of music had negligible impact on CD sales, though this has been disputed by the recording industry^[3] and other ^[4] researchers.^[5]^[6] However these critiques were never peer reviewed (unlike the original paper) and the authors have received significant funding from the record industry.

References

^ Broughton, Philip Delves (2010). What They Teach You At Harvard Business School: My Two Years Inside the Cauldron of Capitalism. London, U.K.: Viking. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-0-14-104648-8. OCLC 559782256.
^ Felix Oberholzer-Gee - Harvard Business School
^ CNET retrieved 24/3/2009
^ "Record Label Exec: Radio is 'Paramount' to Breaking Artists, Keeping Superstars Relevant". National Association of Broadcasters (Press release). August 25, 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-12-05.
^ Liebowitz, Stan J. (September 2007). "How Reliable is the Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing?". SSRN 1014399.
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