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- October 2017
- Article
Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions
By: Anoop R. Menon and Dennis Yao
This paper proposes an approach for modeling competitive interactions that incorporates the costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions... View Details
Keywords: ＂Repositioning Costs; Strategy Dynamics; Strategic Interaction; Capabilities; Cost; Strategy; Change; Game Theory; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao. "Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 10 (October 2017): 1953–1963.
- 2006
- Conference Paper
Modeling Repeated Play of the Prisoners' Dilemma with Reinforcement Learning over an Enriched Strategy Set
By: A. E. Roth and Ido Erev
- December 2010
- Article
Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts
This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
Cabrales, Antonio, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, and Giovanni Ponti. "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 2010): 2261–2278.
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
Smart Venues “There’s long been this tension between the experience of live sports in a venue versus the comfort of watching on TV at home. And broadcasts have improved dramatically. So now stadium-goers are increasingly expecting their experience at the View Details
- 04 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
- 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
- Profile
Cathy Zhou
start-up. How has HBS helped you make an impact? I remember one of my HBS professors comparing the case method to the game tape that sports teams watch in preparation for a big game. It's not because you expect the View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
recency) but are more cautious (positive recency). Paper not available Learning and Equilibrium As Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Author:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, Robert L. Slonim, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Yuval Gonczarowski
I wrote my first line of code when I was twelve. My father challenged me to write a famous program called The Game of Life, which shows the evolution of cells on the monitor. I vividly remember going to sleep that night with a smile on my... View Details
- April 2016 (Revised February 2018)
- Teaching Note
Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Norris
This teaching note gives instructors a guide for a discussion of Riot Games, a fast growing videogames firm with a strong, player-centric culture. It also offers references to research on culture that will allow students to decide whether or not Riot Games’ culture... View Details
- June 1989 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
Babbage's: America's Software Headquarters
By: Walter J. Salmon
Salmon, Walter J. "Babbage's: America's Software Headquarters." Harvard Business School Case 589-100, June 1989. (Revised July 1994.)
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
Studies, the Social Progress Index (which he co-founded), and Oxford University Säid School Global Council. He is also a decorated athlete, having won medals in rowing at the Pan-American Games and US Elite Nationals (1991) and placing... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Paying It Forward
changing the game for retailers as it turns millions of dollars in losses back to profits for clients on four continents. Kundu is also changing the game outside his industry—for children in India,... View Details
- September 2007
- Article
Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?
By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when selling to downstream firms in a repeated game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as... View Details
Nocke, Volker, and Lucy White. "Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?" American Economic Review 97, no. 4 (September 2007): 1321–1339.
- July 2013
- Technical Note
Competition Simulator Exercise: Questions
In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the simulator lets students explore horizontal differentiation with and without price... View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Strategy; Economics Of Competition; Competition; Economics; Game Theory; Competitive Strategy; Marketing Strategy
Van den Steen, Eric. "Competition Simulator Exercise: Questions." Harvard Business School Technical Note 714-406, July 2013.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
Daniel Kafie (MBA '07): social networking games for Latin America. Photo courtesy Vostu.com It may have taken them two years to finally find their entrepreneurial feet in the online world of social media, but the three cofounders of... View Details
- 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
- Portrait Project
Abbas A. Kanji
ball that barely bounces. While my first few squash outings were frustrating at best, my game improved with effort and perseverance. As the months went by, different parts of my game developed – drop shots,... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne