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Quan Le

I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School. My research is in Industrial Organization with a focus on media economics, economic history, and the economics of digital platforms.

[qle@hbs.edu] [CV]

Research

Working Papers

Network Competition and Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from News Agencies

March 2026
[paper]

Urban Migration, Public Health Amenities, and Local Newspapers in 1870-1940 U.S.

with Anaïs Galdin
December 2024
[paper]

Work in Progress

If You Can't Beat Them, Ban Them: Hotel Market Power and Short-Term Rental Regulations

Publications

American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers

with Melissa Dell, Jacob Carlson, Tom Bryan, Emily Silcock, Abhishek Arora, Zejiang Shen, Luca D'Amico-Wong, Pablo Querubín, and Leander Heldring
Neural Information Processing Systems — Datasets and Benchmarks, 2023
[paper] [dataset] [GitHub]

Teaching

Harvard Business School

Strategy, MBA Required Curriculum, 2025

Princeton

Junior Independent Workshop
Economics of Risk and Uncertainty, with Leeat Yariv (2020–2022)
Firm Competition and Strategy, with Kate Ho (2020–2022) and Jakub Kastl (2023)

Community Resources

[a community guide for RAs in economics]
[collections of links for undergrads getting started in economics]
[remembering my advisor Kate Ho]