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  • 26 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

all time. Data analytics firm Similar Web reported that in its first week alone, the app had been installed on nearly 11 percent of all Android phones in the United States, and surpassed Twitter’s daily usage shortly thereafter. Pokémon Go is a View Details
Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Video Game
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Product Management at HBS: Roll Up Your Sleeves and Learn by Doing

a mobile base building game called Regent, and by taking a series of elective courses across multiple disciplines, from artificial intelligence to data science to business strategy. The Product Management... View Details
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Amazon.com, 2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402. On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Market Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Competition; Internet; Corporate Strategy; Online Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Hardware; Information Technology; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Web; Web Sites; Price; Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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    The Transparency Trap

    To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But my research shows that less-transparent work environments can actually yield more-transparent employees who solve problems more... View Details

    • 17 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

    School Case 817-117 King Digital Entertainment Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 12

    send gifts to their friends. (4) Offer incentives. Apps that give away mobile minutes, for instance, can entice customers. (5) Entertain. Red Bull and other companies have devised popular games focused on... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Platform Competition

    Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

    • September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Bharti Tele-Ventures

    By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas
    Following the liberalization of India's telecommunications service industry in the early 1990s, Bharti Tele-Ventures grew from a small entrepreneurial telephone equipment importer and manufacturer to become India's largest private-sector telecommunications service... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Growth and Development; Customers; Foreign Direct Investment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competition; Public Ownership; Profit; Partners and Partnerships; Rank and Position; Telecommunications Industry; India
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning

    By: Liangzong Ma, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
    Reinforcement learning (RL) offers potential for optimizing sequences of customer interactions by modeling the relationships between customer states, company actions, and long-term value. However, its practical implementation often faces significant challenges.... View Details
    Keywords: Dynamic Policy; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Latent Variable Models; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 13 May 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: May 13, 2008

    actions to take in BP's business strategy and in the political arena to manage ongoing climate risk. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708026 Go Mobile Harvard Business School Case 508-023... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 25 Sep 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

    You can't see them, but we've all used "software platforms" over the last few decades, whether they are embedded in the Windows operating system, a cell phone, or game machine. In a new book, the authors term software platforms... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Video Game
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    HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

    Leaders by Avery Forman 08 Nov 2024 | HBS Case How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber 08 Nov 2024 | Op-Ed Have You Had Enough? by James Heskett 01 May 2024 | What Do You Think? Leadership Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for... View Details
    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    the other side with the other's "behind-the-table" barriers to successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level Two," barriers... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 10 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 10, 2008

    note examines the relationship between video gaming devices (console, handhelds, mobile and PC) and gaming software development. The impact of broadband, wireless technologies... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 10

    http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/is-it-fair-to-blame-fair-value-accounting-for-the-financial-crisis/ar/1   Cases & Course MaterialsDigital Chocolate Linda A. Hill and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 410-049 Trip Hawkins founded Digital... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    Bridges Fund Management Brightleaf Holdings Brightline Trains Brookfield Asset Management Brooklyn Museum Bubble Burq Buttonwood Capital C CAKE Calvert Impact Cambridge Associates LLC Cambridge Group, The Cambridge Mobile Telematics... View Details
    • 15 Aug 2023
    • HBS Case

    (Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

    technological fiefdoms, similar to how social networks and mobile app stores operate today? The answer is not yet clear—and may not be for years to come. When will the metaverse make a splash? “For the last 10 years, metaverse and virtual... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
    • 12 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

    Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
    • 14 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 14

    organization. And finally they embrace inconsistency, allowing themselves the latitude to pursue multiple and often conflicting agendas. Read this article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/the-ambidextrous-ceo/ar/1   Working PapersBetter-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23

    governance regimes to meaningful transnational regulation. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2178540   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 415-015 Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A) Valve, one of the world's top video... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne