David Gal

David Gal is an Assistant Professor and Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Marketing at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

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Is Facebook’s Platform a strategic mistake?

[Editor's note: This is an OpEd piece by David Gal, an assistant professor of management at Northwestern University]

Last year, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg suggested that a PC operating system was the inspiration for Facebook’s new “Platform.” With Platform, anyone could write applications for Facebook…. Continue Reading