gaming - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

Turning Point: Change, Stat

And I hope I can approach future problems with the objectivity of Dr. Fauci: “I don’t have any horse in the game one way or the other. I just look at the data.” Second, I’ve been reminded of the importance of the human connection. In the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

about all those youthful excesses anymore, like fun and games in the office, and extra food, and casual dress." But that was not what we should learn from the dot-coms. The youthful, fun overlay was just superficial. That wasn't the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

that comes from satisfying the Wall Street “beasts” quarterly-earnings estimates. If you don’t hit the number, your stock falls. This is an unfortunate game where Wall Street research had become the corrupt handmaiden of the investment... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may become easier as market... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Drucker became skeptical of the methodology, particularly when it was tied to monetary incentives that led managers to game the system by understating what they could achieve. Slowly, the notion of stretch goals emerged. Jim Collins and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

expression of glee on her face; or he thinks of a crucial Red Sox game and a slide into base that turned around a 0-3 deficit for the team.) Finally, ask yourself what you could do. Drawing on research he’s done with Francesca Gino and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

participants are really interested in getting a snapshot of where information technology is headed over the next few years. It moves so fast, and new entrants come in so quickly they can turn an industry upside-down in a matter of months. It's important to be able to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Shekeyla Caldwell Sandore: Why 'A Name Like Mine' Matters

names you don't know, maybe start with a name game and have the children say their names to you, and write them down. Skip the discomfort. When teachers start class asking how to say my name, and they keep saying it right, it makes a huge... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

justified slavery, and created institutional and structural racism. I know YOU specifically didn’t do this, but I think this point illustrates that you, too, should have skin in the game in terms of dismantling systems of oppression. If... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

that touched him personally. To understand that connection, you have to go back to Langford’s hometown of Calhoun, about 70 miles northwest of Atlanta, where he played on the high school football team. He was second string, he points out, so he could take notes about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

the pricing of digital songs, a study on the reach and effectiveness of online video advertisements for video games and movies, and a project on how online retailers of entertainment goods can best manage their "long-tail"... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA graphics processors.21 NVIDIA... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

June 2019 (Revised September 2024)
Case

Parrot: Navigating the Nascent Drone Industry

By: Rory M. McDonald, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In 2018, Henri Seydoux, CEO and Founder of Parrot, believed that his company was at an inflection point in its history. Parrot had been a European leader in consumer electronics since the 1990s, first developing Bluetooth kits for cars before moving on to electronic... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Disruption; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; Europe; France; Paris

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03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

response to rivals’ anticipated and actual behavior in game scenarios. Furthermore, coaches are subject to constraints on the number of players allowed on their rosters and on the budget available to spread across their rosters. In other... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

20 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews

person who writes the job ad to the person who is screening resumes.” But clearly the findings reinforce an assumption many minorities already have: that the resume screening game is stacked against them and that they need to hide their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

individualized consultations where appropriate. THWARTING THE PUPPY MILLS In addition to being thick, Roth has written that successful marketplaces must be safe, meaning that all parties feel secure enough to make decisions based on their best interest, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

arbitrary contextual factors." The research should prove useful to marketing firms, which often use online quizzes and games to garner detailed demographic information. But the findings also highlight a catch-22 situation for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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