Publications

February 1976
Article

Subsolutions and the Supercore of Cooperative Games

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling

March 2006
Background Note

Public Law: The Rules of the Game

Outlines the four primary public policy objectives underlying the U.S. laws regulating business in the early 21st century: to promote economic growth; to protect workers; to promote consumer welfare, and to promote public welfare. Other major economic powers tend to... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Laws and Statutes; United States

January 2002
Article

How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max H. Bazerman

Keywords: Communication; Negotiation

Article

A Constant Bound for the Periods of Parallel Chip-firing Games with Many Chips

By: Paul Myer Kominers and Scott Duke Kominers

We prove that any parallel chip-firing game on a graph G with at least 4|E(G)| − |V(G)| chips stabilizes, i.e., such a game has eventual period of length 1. Furthermore, we obtain a polynomial bound on the number of rounds before stabilization. This result is a... View Details

Keywords: Chip-firing; Parallel Chip-firing; Stabilization

02 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter; Financial Services

October 2009
Article

Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals

By: James K. Sebenius

Exemplified by the pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Game Theory

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July 16, 2016
Article

A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes

By: Elisabeth C. Paulson, Igor Linkov and Jeffrey Keisler

We study a strategic, two-player, sequential game between an attacker and defender. The defender must allocate resources amongst possible countermeasures and across possible targets. The attacker then chooses a type of threat and a target to attack. This paper proposes... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Game Theory; Strategy

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2002
Book

Game Theory in the Tradition of Bob Wilson

By: Bengt Holmstrom, Paul Milgrom and Alvin E Roth

Keywords: Game Theory

01 Dec 1996
News

Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games

A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG), was featured in a June 1996 Bulletin article about the Olympics. Now a partner at Invesco, an Atlanta-based investment management firm that manages... View Details

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

When I was a kid, "The Graduate" was a generation-defining hit movie, with Dustin Hoffman playing an aimless college graduate. In the middle of a graduation party, an older businessman takes the wayward Hoffman aside and delivers some wise advice:... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

Buried in the middle layers of many organizations resides a strata of highly skilled experts, from HR managers to risk evaluators, whose collective wisdom and experience could prove invaluable in informing strategic decisions at the highest levels. “They're all... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

January 2020
Teaching Plan

Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game (Video Playlist)

By: Anita Elberse

Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-039. View Details

January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Case

STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality

By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson

The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. View Details

February 2010
Supplement

Real Property Negotiation Game (CW): Excel Model

By: Arthur I. Segel, John Vogel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh

This Excel model is used to analyze the deals made in The Real Property Negotiation Game, which simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. View Details

Keywords: Property; Negotiation Deal; Sales; Financing and Loans; Mathematical Methods; Real Estate Industry

December 1998
Case

NHL 1998: "The Coolest Game in Nagano"

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman

Explores the National Hockey League's participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics, for which a "winter break" was taken from the regular schedule. The benefits and risks associated with the NHL's Olympic participation are one specific focus. In addition, the case address... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy; Expansion

2000
Working Paper

How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max Bazerman

April 1995 (Revised July 1995)
Case

Power Play (B): Sega in 16-bit Video Games

Home video-game systems were pioneered by the U.S. company Atari in the mid-1970s. After going through boom and bust in the early 1980s, the industry was resurrected in the mid-1980s by the Japanese company Nintendo. With its 8-bit video-game system, Nintendo... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Competition; Video Game Industry; Japan; United States