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- August 2008 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Real Property Negotiation Game (A): Seller Case, Las Vegas Pines
By: Arthur I Segel and John H. Vogel, Jr.
The Real Property Negotiation Game simulates the experience negotiating the sale, purchase, or financing of a property. The class competes as either a lender, buyer, or one of two groups of sellers, Raleigh, North Carolina and Las Vegas, Nevada. This is the seller... View Details
Segel, Arthur I., and John H. Vogel, Jr. "Real Property Negotiation Game (A): Seller Case, Las Vegas Pines." Harvard Business School Case 209-038, August 2008. (Revised April 2012.)
- January 2018
- Supplement
Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)
By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu
On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details
Keywords: Games; Gaming; Acquisitions; Exits; Private Sector; Decision; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Emerging Markets; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Value Creation; Leading Change; Management Teams; Technology Industry; Turkey
Kerr, William R., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-084, January 2018.
- September 1979
- Article
An Impossibility Result Concerning n-Person Bargaining Games
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "An Impossibility Result Concerning n-Person Bargaining Games." International Journal of Game Theory 8, no. 3 (September 1979): 129–132.
- August 2021
- Supplement
The London 2012 Olympic Games Video Supplement
Gourville, John T. "The London 2012 Olympic Games Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 521-718, August 2021.
- Article
United's Frequent-Flier Program Gets Some Game Theory
Kominers, Scott Duke. "United's Frequent-Flier Program Gets Some Game Theory." Bloomberg Opinion (December 13, 2019).
- 1978
- Article
On Stochastic Games with Stationary Optimal Strategies
By: Truman F. Bewley and Elon Kohlberg
Bewley, Truman F., and Elon Kohlberg. "On Stochastic Games with Stationary Optimal Strategies." Mathematics of Operations Research, no. 3 (1978): 104–125.
- 1988
- Chapter
The Expected Utility of Playing a Game
By: A. E. Roth
Roth, A. E. "The Expected Utility of Playing a Game." In The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley, edited by A. E. Roth, 51–70. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- September 2024 (Revised September 2024)
- Supplement
Wemade: (Re)Establishing Trust in Blockchain Games (B)
By: Jung Koo Kang, Charles CY Wang, David Allen and Kwangmoon So
This supplement reviews Wemade's efforts to rebuild confidence in its business after its WEMIX coin was delisted from the major South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges on December 8, 2022. It outlines Wemade's strategy of transparency, which included partnerships with... View Details
- Article
A Constant Bound for the Periods of Parallel Chip-firing Games with Many Chips
By: Paul Myer Kominers and Scott Duke Kominers
We prove that any parallel chip-firing game on a graph G with at least 4|E(G)| − |V(G)| chips stabilizes, i.e., such a game has eventual period of length 1. Furthermore, we obtain a polynomial bound on the number of rounds before stabilization. This result is a... View Details
Kominers, Paul Myer, and Scott Duke Kominers. "A Constant Bound for the Periods of Parallel Chip-firing Games with Many Chips." Archiv der Mathematik 95, no. 1 (July 2010): 9–13.
- June 2008
- Article
Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
I suppose that people react with anger when others show themselves not to be minimally altruistic. With heterogeneous agents, this can account for the experimental results of ultimatum and dictator games. Moreover, it can account for the surprisingly large fraction of... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Minimally Acceptable Altruism and the Ultimatum Game." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 66, nos. 3-4 (June 2008).
- October 2009
- Article
Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals
Exemplified by the pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and to his later... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Game Theory
Sebenius, James K. "Negotiation Analysis: From Games to Inferences to Decisions to Deals." Negotiation Journal 25, no. 4 (October 2009): 449–465.
- February 1976
- Article
Subsolutions and the Supercore of Cooperative Games
By: A. E. Roth
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling
Roth, A. E. "Subsolutions and the Supercore of Cooperative Games." Mathematics of Operations Research 1, no. 1 (February 1976): 43–49.
- March 2006
- Background Note
Public Law: The Rules of the Game
Outlines the four primary public policy objectives underlying the U.S. laws regulating business in the early 21st century: to promote economic growth; to protect workers; to promote consumer welfare, and to promote public welfare. Other major economic powers tend to... View Details
Bagley, Constance E. "Public Law: The Rules of the Game." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-172, March 2006.
- January 2002
- Article
How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max H. Bazerman
McGinn, Kathleen L., Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons, and Max H. Bazerman. "How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games." Games and Economic Behavior 38, no. 1 (January 2002): 127–155. (Reprinted in M.H. Bazerman, ed., Negotiation, Decision Making and Conflict Management, Volume 3, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.)
- 02 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Lawful but Corrupt: Gaming and the Problem of Institutional Corruption in the Private Sector
- May 2003 (Revised October 2005)
- Teaching Note
GolfLogix: Measuring the Game of Golf (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-503-004). View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
When I was a kid, "The Graduate" was a generation-defining hit movie, with Dustin Hoffman playing an aimless college graduate. In the middle of a graduation party, an older businessman takes the wayward Hoffman aside and delivers some wise advice:... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Buried in the middle layers of many organizations resides a strata of highly skilled experts, from HR managers to risk evaluators, whose collective wisdom and experience could prove invaluable in informing strategic decisions at the highest levels. “They're all... View Details
- January 2020
- Teaching Plan
Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game (Video Playlist)
By: Anita Elberse
Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-039. View Details
- January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality
By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson
The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. View Details
Keywords: Virtual Reality; Strivr; Internet Of Things; Football; Retail; Training; Startup; Start-up; Start-up Growth; ＂Sports Organizations,; Experiential Marketing; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Lal, Rajiv, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins, and Scott Johnson. "STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality." Harvard Business School Case 518-048, January 2018. (Revised January 2020.)