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19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

course neither of you have visited or playing a video game together can test how you collaborate or handle competition. You might also consider working on a start-up related project together to see how that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

21 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

at first company officials cited all kinds of outside influences that were doing damage, including the video game fad, increased global competition, and even dropping birth rates. But newly appointed... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

for Western companies to see," says Shelman. Younger employees, for example, are encouraged to socialize over company-provided video games on their breaks. This practice serves several purposes: It... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Case

Sony

By: Stefan Thomke, Atsushi Osanai and Akiko Kanno

Sony used to be synonymous with "innovation" and "cool products." The case reveals how the company lost its edge and describes the leadership initiatives to restore its former glory. In 2012, Kazuo (Kaz) Hirai becomes CEO and successfully transforms Sony, including a... View Details

Keywords: Customer Experience; Product Differentiation; Transformation; Leadership Style; Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Japan

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23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

16 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

Even so, says Luo, the list can help newer writers get more of a shot at seeing their movies made, even if not at the same rate as their more experienced peers. “If there was no such list, they might be locked out of the game entirely,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

colleague Benjamin Edelman, Demographics, Career Concerns or Social Comparison: Who Games SSRN Download Counts? The paper addresses an issue near and dear to academics worldwide: the relative popularity of working papers in the Social... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

evaluate employees based on outcomes rather than hours spent working or seeming to work,” Brodsky says. When employees don’t have work to do, managers can reward them by allowing them to surf the internet, read, or play video View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

film, music, television, video games, the performing arts, sports, and advertising. She has written dozens of cases on firms and businesses as varied as Hulu, Marvel Enterprises, New York's Marquee nightclub, The Metropolitan Opera, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Motion Pictures & Video; Motion Pictures & Video

June 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

By: Hubert Joly, Leonard A. Schlesinger, James Barnett and Stacy Straaberg

In May 2022, streaming entertainment company Netflix lost customers for the first time in more than 10 years. Once a first mover in the streaming landscape, Netflix was facing competition from Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, and others. A key component of... View Details

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25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

interactive quizzes such as "How Bauhaus Are You?," self-guided tours for Valentine's Day, and a video on women in art with a star of HBO's Girls. It created online-only exhibitions of art, and allowed visitors to create their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

jumped on the bandwagon to some extent. It's partnered with Novell to put some of Microsoft's technologies on Linux and other open platforms. The Mono project consists of porting the .NET framework onto Linux, and the Moonlight project is about providing an offer of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

21 years. Nowitzki refined his skills by breaking them down into their component parts and focusing intently on the elements that needed improvement—not just practicing jump shots, but watching videos and breaking down the movements and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

September 2010
Teaching Note

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309060. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Social and Collaborative Networks; Video Game Industry; China

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March 2009
Teaching Note

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda

Teaching Note for [709448]. View Details

Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Competition; Industry Structures; Age; Video Game Industry

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09 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Video Game; Video Game

14 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory

Keywords: by Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan D. MacCormack & John Rusnak; Video Game; Video Game

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

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Video Game Industry

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Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

Sony

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

The Box Office Power of Stars

Netflix's Culture: Binge or Cringe?

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

Leadership and Teaming

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

A Chinese Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com (TN)

Responding to the Wii? (TN)

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory

Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?

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