Games - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

game changer. How has the HBS alumni network impacted your career? From a purely business perspective: I ended up meeting my first boss at Spotify through an EC acquaintance who had worked there as an MBA intern the previous summer. I was... View Details

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

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Past Issues - Alumni

the culture—and the future success—of the gaming industry Back to School Sharpen your pencils and get ready to learn something new as alumni share their passions (and some pointers) to help us expand our skill sets Complete Table of... View Details

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

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

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

Profile

Mike Maples Jr.

grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

MacGregor golf clubs.” The big H: “I had a hard time finding my footing at Harvard but did develop a relationship with Howard Raiffa, who coauthored Games and Decisions. It introduced an analytical approach to multi-person decision... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

in the open field beside Harvard Stadium, across North Harvard Street from HBS, near the Newell Boathouse, where I was training for the Harvard crew. We could also see these buildings when we went to football games in the stadium. This... View Details

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in the River Sharing Problem Authors:Lars Ehlers and S. Ambec... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing... View Details

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

Teaching Interest

Strategy and Technology

By: Andy Wu

The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.

What strategies win in markets with network effects?
How can technology be... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

simple, imaginative games can unlock reservoirs of both creativity and persistence. Above all: Take care of yourself first The upside of this list is that it is not five separate to-do items—they combine easily. Food prep is a wonderful... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus... View Details