Ben is an independent researcher and consultant — combining software engineering, law, and economics to explore and improve some of the Internet’s biggest problems. at Microsoft, where he advised the company at the intersection of software, economics, and public policy. From 2007 to 2018, Ben was a faculty member at Harvard Business School, where he studied and taught about the economics of online markets — aiming to understand both how online markets function and also how they might improve. Full biography.
Research by category:
- ad platforms
- advertising
- advertising fraud
- adware
- affiliate marketing
- artificial intelligence
- bias
- certifications
- competition
- consumer protection
- copyright
- data portability
- decentralized marketplaces
- deception
- disclosures
- discovery and document retention
- display marketing
- educational technology
- domain names
- entrepreneurship
- filtering
- geofencing
- internet infrastructure
- license agreements
- marketing
- marketplaces
- naming names
- network effects
- payments
- policy
- privacy
- regulation
- retransmission
- search engines
- security
- trademark
- transportation
- trust
- adult
- kids
- genres
- specific companies
- site admin
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Recent research:
- Teen Safety, Uber’s Protests, and the Democratic Process in consumer protection, decentralized marketplaces, ride-hailing, kids, Uber
- Revisiting Litigation Alleging Google Discovery Violations in discovery and document retention, Google
- Google Discovery Violations in United States v. Google (Ad Tech) in ad platforms, competition, discovery and document retention, Google
- Google Discovery Violations in United States v. Google (Search) in competition, discovery and document retention, search engines, Google
- Google Discovery Violations in Epic Games v. Google and In Re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation in competition, discovery and document retention, Google
- Add Viacom to the List of Google Discovery Victims in copyright, discovery and document retention, Google
- Google Discovery Violations in Viacom v. YouTube in copyright, discovery and document retention, Google
- Eric Schmidt’s Missing Emails and Memory Problems in copyright, discovery and document retention, Google
- Larry Page’s Bad Memory of YouTube and Google Video in copyright, discovery and document retention, Google
- The 2008 Walker Memo in discovery and document retention, Google
- On geofencing at Polymarket in geofencing, policy, regulation
- Impact of GitHub Copilot on code quality in artificial intelligence, Microsoft