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- 30 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience
- 24 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud
- 01 Oct 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance:Evidence from Indian Software Services
- 13 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
is looking into how the framing of a negotiation can change the game. In one experiment, for example, it was shown that the amount of cooperation among participants was affected far more by what the game was called—whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 2009
- Teaching Note
Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? (TN)
By: Andrei Hagiu
Teaching Note for [707501]. View Details
- August 1985 (Revised November 1987)
- Background Note
Videogame Design Process
The videogame industry grew explosively in the early 1980s. It is an example of a business which is highly dependent on the efforts of creative people. Videogame companies have shown a wide variation in their approach to managing creative resources, seen in such terms... View Details
Kao, John J. "Videogame Design Process." Harvard Business School Background Note 486-012, August 1985. (Revised November 1987.)
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
consumers discover that a company used the technique to cheat them by exploiting their naïveté. The difference is evident in the following examples, where companies have thoughtfully adopted a stealth-positioning approach. EyeToy: Play. Sony's PlayStation is the... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
Boston College's greatest marketing campaign lasted about six seconds. It's called the "Flutie Effect." In a 1984 game against the University of Miami, BC quarterback Doug Flutie threw a last-second "Hail Mary" pass 48... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
two-week spectacle that captures the attention of people around the world. With the Games of the XXX Olympiad off and running in London, three Harvard Business School professors offer their insights. Stephen A. Greyser, Richard P. Chapman... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
15 games in 2003, leading the team with 57 catches for 803 yards; in Super Bowl XXXVIII, Branch caught 10 passes for 143 yards and a touchdown. The following season, after suffering an injury, Branch finished the regular season with 35... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Teaching Note
Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop-Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox (TN)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Jenny Illes
Teaching Note to (9-403-090). View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Every firm has two strategies, we learn early on in the pages of One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making. "Explicit" strategy is the one you read about in your company's planning memos and PowerPoint slides. The second, "implicit"... View Details
- 22 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
- 24 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry
- 22 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency
- 15 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community
- June–July 2013
- Article
Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Deszo and Minyuan Zhao
The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Global Strategy
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao. "Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices." Special Issue on The Multinational in Geographic Space. Journal of International Business Studies 44, no. 5 (June–July 2013): 504–520.
- Article
Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement
By: Lucy White and Mark Williams
The game-theoretic bargaining literature insists on non-cooperative bargaining procedure but allows 'cooperative' implementation of agreements. The effect of this is to allow free-reign of bargaining power with no check upon it. In reality, courts cannot... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Body of Literature; Contracts; Motivation and Incentives; Code Law; Game Theory
White, Lucy, and Mark Williams. "Bargaining with Imperfect Enforcement." RAND Journal of Economics 40, no. 2 (Summer 2009).