Publications

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

Gamble and IBM have learned to do this—others can learn as well. In a similar way there is concern about loss of secrecy. The reality in most industries is that most firms have a reasonably good idea about the core products, services, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

September 1999
Case

Project Dreamcast: Serious Play at Sega Enterprises Ltd. (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Andrew Robertson

Focuses on the ongoing competitive battles in the global home video game market that is estimated to exceed $15 billion by 1999 in the United States and Japan alone. Describes how Sega Enterprises has redesigned its development processes to create a revolutionary... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Business Growth and Maturation; Market Entry and Exit; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Computer Industry

Educators

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

"last-place averse." Participants choose gambles with the potential to move them out of last place that they reject when randomly placed in other parts of the distribution. In modified-dictator games, participants randomly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

P&G Harvard Business School Case 706-435 In 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With Whitestrips, P&G created an entire... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

negotiations in the 1980s that led to a significant and growing partnership between Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart. From the perspective of Lou Pritchett, P&G's Vice President of Sales and Customer Development, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 1998 (Revised May 2004)
Teaching Note

Adventurous Computer Games, Inc. and Adventurous Computer Games, Inc.(Abridged)TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-199-020) and (9-193-088). View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

October 29, 2010
Article

The Mental Game of Breast Cancer, Part one

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling

Read Now

May 2008
Teaching Note

Hasbro Games -- POX (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Elie Ofek and David B. Godes

Teaching Note for [505046] and [505047]. View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

Londoners, many of whom live around the corner from the Olympic Park. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510039-PDF-ENG Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly Global Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

1976
Article

The Asymptotic Theory of Stochastic Games

By: Truman F. Bewley and Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Theory

September 2006
Article

Learning in Noisy Games: Partial Reinforcement and the Sustainability of Cooperation

By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer and Alvin E. Roth

Keywords: Cooperation; Learning; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

November 2017
Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details

Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul

June 1978
Article

Large Group Bargaining in a Characteristic Function Game

By: J. K. Murnighan and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Negotiation; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

1978
Article

A Note Concerning Asymmetric Games on Graphs

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling

December 1973
Article

On Non-Atomic Games

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling