Mobile Gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

Sneakers Game “Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel giant Nike, is on the phone with... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

console, either through their mobile devices, or increasingly, through the "cloud" where customers could play videogames through specially enabled devices without the need for a physical game... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

homed in on five key strategies that any manager, entrepreneur, or CEO can learn. Each of the lessons reads like a paradox or Zen koan that takes intelligence and practice to unpack. "Look Forward, Reason Back," for example, takes its lead from View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

Teaching Interest

Strategy and Technology

By: Andy Wu

The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.

What strategies win in markets with network effects?
How can technology be... View Details

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

actionable, concrete goals for advancing workers. This may require a company to begin by focusing on just one parameter first. Asking questions to drive an internal mobility strategy. If, for example, a company is having a hard time... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Financial Markets (22) Financial Reporting (7) Financial Statements (1) Financial Strategy (11) Financing and Loans (22) Food (12) For-Profit Firms (1) Forecasting and Prediction (26) Foreign Direct Investment (5) Forms of Communication (4) Framework (7) View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

solution was to track audiences, use information about their browsing choices, and infer their interests. But tracking was challenged by privacy policies, as Google proposed restriction on the use of cookies, and Apple limited tracking by third parties on its View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

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Profiles - MBA

build my classmates a mobile game to learn new vocabulary, a task they struggled with in English classes. From that moment on, I recognized the power of technology in solving community problems. My... View Details

January 2024
Case

National Football League and Private 5G

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen

On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details

Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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Regional Winners - Alumni

faster to implement. Rajiv Singhal, MBA 2007, CEO & Founder Region: Europe and International Closing Theory Studios Closing Theory Studios is a mobile game development company creating View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
Case

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast... View Details

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08 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

desperately vied for the prize it bestowed on New York. Yet well-organized opponents overcame the unorganized supporters of the deal. Old-school reliance on the mayor and governor, powerful power brokers, proved unable to mobilize... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

weakens bridge pilings and has put some 500,000 bridges in the United States at risk. Quickstor Rebecca Greene Todd Rudnianyn Business Track Runner-Up This new venture has developed a mobile app to facilitate the process of finding... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to in-person outreach—whether by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

Research Summary

Overview

By: Andy Wu

How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

tools and functionality than do citrus farmers or stone fruit growers: Andersen questioned whether the company should try to build everything or just focus on its core mobility platform as a base layer and then invite others to build on... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

effort, he mobilized Rakuten’s merchants in the south to help disaster victims in the north. The Rakuten Eagles, whose crimson uniforms symbolize the role that Harvard has played in Mikitani’s life, are based in the region hit hard by the... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Chain Mess Professor Willy C. Shih + More Info – Less Info How did global supply chains become such a mess, and how does an understanding of the Beer Game and the “National Cranberry” case help me sort this out? Participants will leave... View Details

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

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