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- 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
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
which athletes won and lost in Turin, but what about the companies and individuals looking for business gold? Professor Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser looks at the results and the possibilities ahead for the Summer Games in China. New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Last Look
identify this photo as related to the Business Game competition. But what students, and when? Demer, who says it’s the 1960s, recalls that the game required small groups of students to make key budget... 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
- 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
George S. Parker
Designing and selling "parlor" or board games since he was seventeen, Parker, along with his brother, founded Parker Brothers, maker of the world's most popular games, including Monopoly. Parker was known for his creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- Web
Teams | New Venture Competition
Gaitan (EdM 2025) Husain Rasheed Engaging kids in Kazakhstan with an AI-driven simulation game that makes learning English fun Remarcation Hannah Wong (MArch 2025) Jia Wen Goh Fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space... View Details
- December 2022
- Article
I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure
By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits.
Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm
may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
Kim, Byungyeon, Oded Koenigsberg, and Elie Ofek. "I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8889–8908.
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Rushing Yards
2003) is playing it cool. “This is just watching lots of football and then just getting together with 12 other bright, thoughtful people who know the game very well and getting a chance to make a selection that’s very important to a lot... View Details
- 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
Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu. "Accounting for Crises." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6, no. 3 (July 2014): 184–213.
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Tennis Club | MBA
tennis players of all levels to meet, train and play competitive or friendly games during the year. Club Email Address tennis@studentclubs.hbs.edu Club Co-Presidents Mauricio Builes Zapata Yorana Wu Club CFO Daniel Medina Mailing Address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Insider Knowledge
19fa3d517837d2a3a5724cd478d6306e Omari Bouknight (HBS ’04) turned his experience gaining admission to business school into his first book Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools (Career Press). He... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Making the learning process fun for children
A passion for working in the entertainment industry to benefit children led Christina Hsu (MBA 2004) to the educational game company JumpStart, which develops new ways for kids to learn and have fun at the same time. (Published November... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
trauma—on players' long-term health, a complex issue that could affect the league's growth. In other words, the league has to play both strong offense and stellar defense to achieve its $1 billion-a-year growth-rate goal. But fans can rest assured: The NFL has a View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Model and Ecological Integrity in Southern Africa Harvard Business School Case 709-001 The Londolozi game viewing reserve in South Africa became a defining icon of ecotourism during the 1990s and early 2000s-that is, a tourist business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
this seemed timeless and unchanging - until recently. A Whole New Ball Game At first glance, the scene suggests classic Americana, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting: a football star, larger than life, visiting a classroom of rapt... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- August 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Teaching Note
Flextronics: Deciding on a Shop-Floor System for Producing the Microsoft Xbox (TN)
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Jenny Illes
Teaching Note to (9-403-090). View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
15 games in 2003, leading the team with 57 catches for 803 yards; in Super Bowl XXXVIII, Branch caught 10 passes for 143 yards and a touchdown. The following season, after suffering an injury, Branch finished the regular season with 35... View Details