Felix Oberholzer-Gee

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

1. 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.
2. Felix Oberholzer-Gee - Harvard Business School
3. CNET retrieved 24/3/2009
4. "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.
5. Liebowitz, Stan J. (September 2007). "How Reliable is the Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing?". SSRN 1014399.
6. "Steven Levitt blocks an undesired statement: No comment, please".

Further reading

• Oberholzer-Gee, Felix & Strumpf, Koleman (March 2004). "The effect of file sharing on record sales: An empirical analysis Archived 2008-06-13 at the Wayback Machine"
• Liebowitz, Stan J. (Sept 2016). "Why the Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf Paper on File-Sharing is not credible"
• Liebowitz, Stan J. (May 2017). "Responding to Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf's Attempted Defense of Their Piracy Paper"
• Liebowitz, Stan J. (May 18, 2017). "A Replication of Four Quasi-Experiments and Three Facts from 'The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis' (Journal of Political Economy, 2007)"
• Felix Oberholzer-Gee had a conversation with Rishabh Chaddha (Contributor) about his book "Better, Simpler Strategy" [1] and its writing process. [2]