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  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Security Chief

portable explosive detection equipment has kept them out of harm’s way. Steering Off the Safe Road For a man who just three years ago was at the top of his game in the insurance business, the question arises: Why risk everything by... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 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 game... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Julie Ann Haldeman

process, but we have a plan. We’re going wig shopping next weekend.”   My mom resumes her normal schedule. She zips from home to work to grandma’s house with pit stops for chemotherapy.   Each night, my mom gently feeds and bathes grandma. They hum along to Big Band... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Investing FAQ

Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence Why is participation important? Every gift represents an endorsement of the School’s mission to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • January 2010
  • Article

The Role of Experience in the Gambler's Fallacy

By: Greg Barron and Stephen Leider
Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a decision problem, by experience or by abstract description, can affect their behavior. We examined the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Acquisition; Outcome or Result; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

old ones, capacity expansion, and product and process innovation. Ghemawat is the author of a widely cited book, Commitment, as well as seminal articles on the sustainability of competitive advantage. His latest book, Games Businesses... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • News

Do You Feel Lucky?

Maryland Lottery and Gaming Director Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979) fields questions on why the jackpot is so big, changes in the lottery world, and what you should do if you’re the one holding the lucky ticket. Watch here:... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

television markets but will hold their games in intimate, spectator-friendly venues. This strategy should produce the revenues and crowds (per-game target: 2,500 fans) to meet initial break-even projections. The league will draw on a fan... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

    Mervyn E. Griffin, Jr.

    syndicated show in America that year and earned Griffin approximately $16 million. Griffin’s other game show phenomenon “Jeopardy” went into syndication in 1984 earning approximately $10 million for Griffin on its first 260 episodes.... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
    • 30 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

    people are more likely to go to a ball game when they have purchased tickets to a single game than when they purchased tickets to multiple games. In the first case, the cost of that View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
    • 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 into the View Details
    • Web

    Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    and soon recognized opportunities to explore in games like chess and magic. Eventually he sold that enterprise to a needlecraft company and founded R&R to focus on creating and selling games, including the TVGuide Trivia View Details
    • 20 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 20, 2007

    research. Learning and Equilibrium as Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Authors:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, R. Slonim, and Greg Barron Periodical:Economic Theory (forthcoming). Special... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 18–20 May 2018
    • Reunions

    MBA 2017 ONE-YEAR REUNION

    reflections that may be useful to First Year Reunion alums, the session seeks a dialog focused on the long game of life. Do you want to follow a script--or write your own story? Francesca Gino, Tandon Family Professor of Business... View Details
    • 03 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

    have the potential to become frenemies, however. Microsoft and Sony still compete bitterly to persuade video game producers to create exclusive content for their gaming consoles—Xbox and PlayStation,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

      Leonard S. Riggio

      the Barnes & Noble superstore concept with an in-store coffee shop and spacious reading alcoves. In addition, Riggio launched Barnes & Noble.com to compete with Amazon for on-line book sales and launched a successful video game... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 01 Dec 2008
      • News

      Lesson from the Fall

      is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed space by encouraging and... View Details
      Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
      • Portrait Project

      Sridevi Raghavan

      friends – what a bad game I played! But I saw how much I enjoyed learning new things, and creating the possibility of new beginnings. When I watch my childhood friend put her lucrative career on hold for her husband and child, I learn the... View Details
      • 01 Sep 2014
      • News

      Feedback

      our content to that market?” is a question that also drives off-mainstream sports—for example, hockey in Austria. We are currently on the way to implementing a new kind of live streaming channel which features only the most relevant scenes of a View Details
      • 16 Jan 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

      Tom Brady. On the other hand, Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs was unable to keep up with changes to the industry when he returned for his second stint as head coach in 2004. Gibbs had won three Super Bowl titles in his 12-year stint from 1981 to 1992, but stepped... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports