Video Game Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

were moments of magic that reminded me of Star Wars and the video games I played growing up,” he says. But it’s a long way from amateur get-togethers to a TV-ready, professional sport. Backed by $12 million... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Aug 2022
News

HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship

against these in-game lottery-like mechanisms and their broader implications for the gaming industry and beyond. Sasago, who was a recipient of the HBS Japan Fellowship in 2019 and 2020, says he was working... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

January 2022
Article

Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems

By: David R. Clough and Andy Wu

Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, and Kyriakou (2020) highlight the important role of data and AI as strategic resources that platforms may use to enhance user value. However, their article overlooks a significant conceptual distinction: the installed base of... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Data Strategy; Ecosystem; Value Capture; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Strategy; Learning; Value Creation; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of mobile View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Oct 2021
News

Growing Latino Buying Power

years.” Perez goes on to say that Avance is still early to this trend. “If you look at the Latino market, probably less than a fraction of one percent of the capital is focused on it,” he says. “So I think we have a ways to go. But the impact that this group is having... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

valuations," Buffett asserted that high interest rates were to blame for keeping the Dow Jones Industrial Average virtually unchanged between 1964 and 1981 despite a 370 percent increase in U.S. GDP during that period. From 1982 through... View Details

09 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Video: Thinking Secondhand First

CEO and co-founder of thredUP, James Reinhart (MBA/MPA-ID 2009) is disrupting the retail industry out of the mission to keep clothing out of landfills. Reinhart thought of his secondhand clothing business while at HBS and has since built... View Details

Career Coach

Wabantu Hlophe

Wabantu wants to help students build networks that can help them access new opportunities in industries off the beaten path. Having gained significant experience in clean energy investing, startups and consulting before HBS; and pivoting... View Details

16 Jun 2014
Blog Post

Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market

the workplace. Generation X: The Digital Migrants Born in 1967, I came of age during a key digital revolution in the United States. In the late 1970s my friends and I were playing video games on consoles... View Details

Article

Demand and Supply Dynamics for Sequentially Released Products in International Markets: The Case of Motion Pictures

By: Anita Elberse and Jehoshua Eliashberg

Keywords: Supply and Industry; Product; Markets; Film Entertainment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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served as vice chairman in charge of all of the investment subsidiaries. He also brought Equitable Life public, the first firm in its industry to do so. Then Dick’s interests took him in a very different direction, restoring historic... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

has developed games for fifteen international markets and has sold some six million units in the United States alone. A rule of thumb in the toy industry is that about half of all new board View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

Portrait Project

Sylvia Ko

and purple elf ears to assess only my skill. Some of my dearest friends are 3,000 miles away, but we defeat dragons every weekend. Video games gave me the courage to bring my full self into the real world.... View Details

Portrait Project

Amalia della Paolera

The most universal language I know is soccer. When I step into a pickup soccer game anywhere around the world, I enter into a brief, informal social contract. At first, male players eye me warily as I walk onto the field asking if I can... View Details

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

A pall hangs over Sochi. Not since the bribery scandal overshadowed the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City has an Olympic Winter Games been so fraught with controversy. Fears of a terrorist attack by Islamic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

01 Dec 1999
News

New Releases

exaggerated." by James E. Aisner (Adapted from the Winter 1999 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of the HBS Division of Research.) The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Free Press) The... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

fans were forced by FIFA to remove their pants before entering the stadium. As a result, hundreds of fans watched the game in their underwear. Needless to say, the Dutch brewery reaped a marketing bonanza. For the big athletic equipment... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Career Coach

Sereena Tucker

Having worked in Investment Banking and Private Equity, Sereena can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how to create a list of target firms. She can help students create a View Details

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

company that reflects their personal values, U2 also provides a model. "Any CEO who thinks his or her job is primarily about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past," Koehn says. "The game of what kind of capitalism will define... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

MORE Glycolysis video: So let’s give ourselves an overview of glycolysis—and glycolysis is an incredibly important biochemical pathway. It occurs in practically all life as we know it. And it's all about taking glucose as a fuel Julia Hanna: Sal Khan has produced... View Details

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