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- January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Glass Egg Digital Media
Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at... View Details
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Godes, David B. "Glass Egg Digital Media." Harvard Business School Case 508-066, January 2008. (Revised March 2008.)
- November 2009
- Article
Fast or Fair? A Study of Response Times
This paper uses a modified dictator game to investigate the relationship between response times and social preferences. We find that faster subjects more often chose the option with the highest payoff for themselves. Moreover, our within-analysis reveals that, for a... View Details
Keywords: Relationships; Time Management; Social Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Profit
Piovesan, Marco, and Erik Wengstrom. "Fast or Fair? A Study of Response Times." Economics Letters 105, no. 2 (November 2009): 193–196.
- 29 Nov 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
- 11 May 2022
- News
Why One Little Goof Drove Wordle Fans Nuts
Dennis A. Yao
Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details
- 29 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
New rules for a new economy
- 01 Aug 2012
- News
Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill
- 10 Feb 2010
- News
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Super Bowl Advertisements
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
Downgrading America?
- June 1994 (Revised October 1999)
- Background Note
Beer Game, The: Board Version
The beer game is an exercise that demonstrates supply channel dynamics. Simulates the flow of material and information in a simplified channel of beer production and distribution, focusing on the linkages among a beer manufacturer, its distributors, a wholesaler, and a... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Distribution Channels; Production; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges
Hammond, Janice H. "Beer Game, The: Board Version." Harvard Business School Background Note 694-104, June 1994. (Revised October 1999.)
- 07 Apr 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself
Keywords: Re: Leslie K. John
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive insurance premiums, lack of... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies-along with fund managers and other investors-on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Public Ownership; Performance Expectations; Economy; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "How Short-Termism Invites Corruption—And What to Do About It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-094, April 2012.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Collusion in Brokered Markets
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The U.S. residential real estate agency market presents a puzzle for economic theory: commissions on real estate transactions have remained high for decades even though entry is frequent and costs are low. We model the real estate agency market, and other brokered... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate; ＂Repeated Games＂; Collusion; Antitrust; Brokered Markets; Game Theory; Real Estate Industry
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Collusion in Brokered Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-023, September 2019. (Revised July 2020.)
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about the forces of economic... View Details
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