Video Game Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

of FairMarket, which provides online auction services for a variety of merchant and community sites. Meakem is the founder and CEO of FreeMarkets, which creates business-to-business online auctions for industrial parts and suppliers.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Oberholzer-Gee, Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press Extreme market volatility, pandemic, industry change, supply-chain disruption. The list of potential threats and strategic challenges... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

contingent control rights when they are prohibited from doing business with other portals and that contingent control rights are less likely to appear as the industry matures. Our findings are consistent with theoretical explanations that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

first started out, it was really theatrical, was king. Home video was a big deal. DVDs were a big deal in really propping up the market. And now DVDs are not really that relevant. And it's all online and digital and streaming. And... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

to raise additional capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53962 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

two criteria. The company had to have performed in the top half of its industry for a decade before the inception of the study, and we had to have evidence that these leaders had created a high commitment culture. We decided about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 2024
Case

SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'

By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn

This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel... View Details

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Educators

02 Sep 2018
News

Havana Rising

the Cuban market, she has to rely on el paquete—a sort of informal, underground media delivery service hand-distributed weekly to subscribers via flash drives filled with everything from the latest Game of Thrones episodes to last week’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

28 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility and industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry by use of a technique called Design Structure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Ben Barry Ben Barry is an Associate Professor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the School of Fashion... View Details

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID hospital.” (You can see a View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

As you all know, they are the hipster brand for young people for eyeglasswear. They have a frictionless system. And it's really taken off. And then they began to realize that there is this other demographic that they could be going after. And there's a whole View Details

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

diagnostic tests for screening. Screening games can apply to the cases where by-products, partner fidelity feedback, or host sanctions do not apply, therefore explaining the evolution of mutualism in systems where it is impossible for... View Details

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

5,000 board members from around the world to find out. We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards. Although directors in certain industries are more cognizant of the threat of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

of the setting and that participants who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al. (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

an equally skilled person in another location at a lower wage. Other countries have been improving their game with good skills compared to us and have better infrastructure in some cases than we do. We believe the US retains its core... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

education. At that point, Khan had already published hundreds of free YouTube video tutorials, teaching millions of people a month everything from algebra to astrophysics. Turns out, that was just the beginning of Khan’s impact: He... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

technology, and logistics. Of all the project’s phases, however, transportation is the issue that really gets Mawilmada going, the one that, in his mind, will be a complete game changer. It’s something he’s spent countless hours on,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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