Gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

changed the so called cycle, and new games and new rules have overtaken this model? Not sure we can describe this (as a) new wheel of retailing; rather the new wheels of ecosystems.” Edwin Lambregts added, “In Europe the retail industry... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

the Internet to their overall store model. Much like the story of the frog in the slowly boiling water, they are finding out late in the game that their physical store businesses are fundamentally unsustainable. Given the item assortments... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

different scenarios between two competitive, for-profit firms. Can you talk about those findings? A: The method we use is a two-period game where in the first period (the strategy period) business models are chosen, and in the second... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

from the examples set by these world-class athletes, who are never satisfied, even at the top of their games and seemingly at the peak of their performance. Like Phelps and Nowitzki, two examples of organizations that excel at continuous... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to savor the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The “subourbon” View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

availability. But, clearly dysfunctional activities, even in fun, such as a sales vs. marketing golf tournament or softball game at the national sales meeting, are to be discouraged. They only contribute to the schism. The nature of the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

board game Monopoly. This wasn't a blockbuster like the new shaving systems for women, but it showed that everyone has a role to play in a culture of innovation. To go from idea to successful innovation requires a great deal of support... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

Web

Harvard Business School

programming, film acquisition, and international co-production. Named president of HBO Home Entertainment in 1995, McGee received numerous industry awards and oversaw the digital and DVD release of many blockbusters, including The Sopranos , Sex and the City , Band of... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

game who got hit with their own boomerang. As a result, many of these leaders have departed the scene, just as numerous corporate CEOs did in the wake of the Enron debacle earlier in the decade. Some of these leaders failed to follow... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

know, Ted's tennis game ... he never got it.' That's what he loved about the club. People like that. Even though he had just died, people were still critiquing his game." View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

verdict on the buyback revolution and the results are fairly damning. “Storrowed”: A Generative AI Game Professor Mitch Weiss (MBA 2004) 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info Leaders everywhere are making decisions about how... View Details