Games - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2011
Teaching Note

Game Time Decision for AppDirect (TN)

By: Andrei Hagiu, Laura Arjona and Emily Zhang

Teaching Note for 712-410. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

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29 Oct 2010
News

The Mental Game of Breast Cancer

23 May 2024
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When Business is Just a Game

23 Jul 2020
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The Long Game of Coronavirus Research

September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Supplement

Wemade: (Re)Establishing Trust in Blockchain Games (B)

By: Jung Koo Kang, Charles C.Y. 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

Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Crypto Economy; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Revenue Recognition; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Corporate Disclosure; Information Technology; Financial Markets; Governance; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry; South Korea

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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

Keywords: Negotiation; Property; Sales; Price; Financing and Loans; Real Estate Industry; Las Vegas

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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

Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Game Theory; Mathematical Methods

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June 2001
Case

Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (J): The Next Generation Nintendo

Nintendo must make some important decisions related to the launch and design of the successor to its 16-bit Super NES console. A rewritten version of an earlier case. This is part of a case series examining the competitive dynamics in the home video game industry from... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Product Design; Product Launch; Video Game Industry

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The Expected Utility of Playing a Game

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Game Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Motivation and Incentives

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January 2018
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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

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01 Mar 2012
News

Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech

current iteration, the game still teaches supply chain costs, lead time, and inventory management, but now students order kegs on beloved tablets and other devices. For students, simulations bring material to life, deepen contextual... View Details

Keywords: Professor V.G. Narayanan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2003 (Revised October 2005)
Teaching Note

GolfLogix: Measuring the Game of Golf (TN)

By: John T. Gourville

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28 Jan 2010
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Is Apple's 'magical' iPad a game changer?

13 Jun 2023
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A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets

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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

Keywords: Chip-firing; Parallel Chip-firing; Stabilization

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