Gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

has enormous influence on the American social fabric. Knowing who likes you changes the game McFowland and his fellow researchers partnered with a large North American dating platform, dubbed monCherie.com, for a 2021 working paper titled... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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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 games like Househunt,... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

insurance and all that stuff. So that’s a game changer for most automotive companies. What does it mean, and how is it going to change who they are and how they do what they do?” Gulati also notes some wartime parallels between the FBI’s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Jean Luo

After two years with Goldman Sachs, Jean Luo landed the kind of job millions dream of: developing games as a product manager at Zynga. “I really enjoyed being a PM; it's like being a mini-general manager with your own P&L. I loved the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Tech

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

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

TikTok posts attract millions of views, most do not. In the case of the “Victoria’s Secret” song, tens of thousands of people riffed off the post with their own video, and few were seen by more than a handful of people. So why do they bother? The point for many people... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

10 Feb 2020
In Practice

6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy

Economic Research. 3. Algorithms are changing the pricing game “Firms are increasingly using pricing algorithms to set prices, especially in online markets. Pricing algorithms can enable better-targeted prices, but they also can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

convening customers with likeminded interests—offering lectures, book signings, game nights, children’s story times, young adult reading groups, even birthday parties. “In fact, some bookstores now host over 500 events a year that bring... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

It is home to the dining hall, game room, US Post Office, Harvard COOP, MBA offices, and more. START: START week is the first official welcome for the new class of MBA students. START takes place over the course of students’ first week on... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

engage in experiences that allow them to see more dimensions of their personalities. For example, go on a road trip or partake in an activity that neither of you have done before. See how each of you make decisions together like where to eat lunch or which trail to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

common to success in all three of these areas—leadership, strategy, and negotiation—it’s the need for a high degree of empathy,” he says. “If you want to lead, you need to understand how those you lead think and feel. If you are to strategize, you must understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Loujaine AlMoallim

game that keeps you on your toes (or on your head, in some cases). And nothing feels more rewarding than facing these challenges and learning how to tackle them. What is your most memorable classroom moment? During one of our classes in... View Details

February 2023
Case

Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse

By: Ayelet Israeli and Nicole Tempest Keller

In 2022, Roblox had 58.8 million daily active users, including over half of all children and teens under the age of 16 in the United States. Roblox, a free-to-use “co-experience platform”, allowed users to come together in immersive 3D experiences to socialize, work,... View Details

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16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

does reopening look like and can we afford it? Throughout the crisis, restaurants and regulatory authorities have discussed game plans for reopening. Prominent features of these plans include reconfiguring floor plans to enable physical... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

in their current circumstances; for people who are working hard and maybe even finding success in their life and work, but who struggle to find meaning or fulfillment in what they are doing; for those who are playing (perhaps very well) a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

Keywords: by Kevin J. Murphy & Michael C. Jensen

Article

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

By: Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu

The most prevalent notions of fairness in machine learning are statistical definitions: they fix a small collection of pre-defined groups, and then ask for parity of some statistic of the classifier (like classification rate or false positive rate) across these groups.... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Fairness; Mathematical Methods

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01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

and operational data, with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of service. “The data improvements she’s talking about could be game changers,” says Cohen, who credits Tisch with being the first sanitation commissioner to focus on... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

or opening ritual before diving into business. Think about creative bonding experiences—an online talent show? Recipe contest? Game night? Show-and-tell of each team member’s favorite piece of art or travel souvenir? These might even be... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

happening at big firms and small firms,” Cohen says. “It happens across industries. I can see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” Name games As part of the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that mainstream market researchers tend... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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