Gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Oct 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman & Bradley R. Staats; Video Game; Video Game

24 Jan 2008
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The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Video Game; Video Game

22 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Video Game

15 Dec 2006
Working Paper Summaries

The Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Gregory L. Richards; Video Game; Video Game

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

There's much more at stake in the Olympics than medals. Giant corporations are eager to tie huge marketing and advertising campaigns to the Olympic rings and ideals. NBC spent more than $600 million to win the broadcast rights for the Winter View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

must address a major design problem: Sophisticated investors have been gaming the system by applying specialized screening tools to scoop up the choicest loans with the lowest default rates, leaving less experienced investors with less... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

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

spring 1994
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Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria

How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory

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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

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

Technology May Change the Game By: Mills, Karen, and Brayden McCarthy Abstract—Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce-about 120 million... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

experience and offer a framework for applying them. A dramatic departure from "business as usual," MCPS has won nationwide attention as a compelling model for tackling the achievement and opportunity issues that confront our nation as a whole. Two-Terminal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2014
Article

Accounting for Crises

By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu

We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis

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14 Apr 2020
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'Fortnite' Was a Blockbuster for Epic Games. What’s the Encore?

Keywords: Re: Andy Wu; Video Game; Video Game

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

If there is one job that many software analysts and programmers cannot stand, it is testing software on the path to launch. The grinding concentration and repetitive nature of the tasks serve to drive many techies around the bend. Testing—due in no small part to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Video Game; Video Game