Gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2003
News

Fighting Back from a Knockout

Politics can be a thankless game — to the victor go the spoils, but so too the headaches. Consider the case of Steve Laffey (MBA 1986), the newly elected Republican mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island. Last November, three days after winning... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Portrait Project

Jamie Chang

suffer in numerous ways, and healing may simply involve playing a game, sharing a meal, or having a drink and a laugh. Healing can come from a friend who is there to listen, a mother's hug at the airport arrival gates, or a father with time for soccer 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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Marc Ricks

my family and friends. After reading the above, you might conclude that I'm doomed to suffer an early nervous breakdown from a life of all work and no play. The truth is that I savor my time watching a game at Yankee Stadium, reading The... View Details

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Melanie Harris

lesson of the family (by blood and by choice, ancestral and contemporary) that has formed me, nurtured me, and let me go. It is confidence, health, security, passion. The promise of love empowers me to change the game and play by my own... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)

impossible for me to answer this question without sounding hyperbolic, but the reality is VR has the potential to dramatically transform how we live, work, and socialize. Today, VR’s consumer experiences are mostly related to games and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

A business career comes full circle

including The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Band of Brothers, and Game of Thrones. In 2013, McGee returned to HBS to become a senior lecturer in business administration. “The opportunity to work with some of the leading scholars in the... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Feedback

Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL Re: Can the NFL win the long game? It is a game for only certain types of individuals, physically and mentally tough, coached up and properly conditioned in season and off season. There is no finer... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Patrick Chun

contest semi-finals, had a beta-launch in the fall of his EC year, and according to Patrick, "is undergoing further work and evaluation." Anticipating deeper, hands-on product engagement in the tech sector, Patrick took his summer internship with Microsoft's... 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

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Jennifer Keedy Banks

dinner for a basketball game or helping with homework when I need to work on a presentation Thinking positively, smiling often Being genuine, feminine, caring, and gracious even in a harsh, egotistical environment Not allowing... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

is licked off my lollipop? Some of my best friends are basketball teammates from Yale—and not because we were champions. We didn’t win a damn thing, but we were each other’s best support mechanism. We put defeat in its proper context. Because there’s always another... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

23 Aug 2020
News

In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine

money in,” she explains. “So they want us personally on the hook with skin in the game for everything we do. That sort of approach is actually what you need in this case. It’s government money, not my money, but the mentality is the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; vaccines; leadership; biomedicine; venture capital; operations; public health; government innovation; Finance; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Spreading the Words

When the youngest of his three sons went off to college in 1994, Carey Cook (MBA 1969) finally had time to pursue a lifelong dream: creating word games and puzzles designed to build the vocabulary skills of school-age kids. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Portrait Project

Shelby Colby

that came with a cancer diagnosis, something else happened. Time froze. I savored the saltiness of my mom’s chicken and wild rice soup. I squealed with my little niece during our games of tickle-thief. My lungs slowly expanded with air,... View Details

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Bari Schwartz

It began with an organ, perched high above the grandstand. The visiting team dotted the outfield, smoke from grilling hot dogs wafted up the aisles, navy jerseys blanketed the stadium bowl. Game on the line, the batter strode toward the... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Robots to the Rescue

and pack it for shipment. But Mountz has a better idea. As founder and CEO of Kiva Systems based in Woburn, Massachusetts, he has developed a fulfillment system that relies on robotic vehicles to locate and deliver merchandise to human packers. “We’re changing the... View Details

Keywords: robotics; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

spring 1994
Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria

How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details

Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory