Publications

1978
Article

On Stochastic Games with Stationary Optimal Strategies

By: Truman F. Bewley and Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Strategy

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

internally focused manner. Innovation today must be managed as an open system, with a far greater external focus. Q: Which companies today are the best examples of open innovation, and why? A: IBM, Intel, and Procter & Gamble all... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2021
Working Paper

Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator Demand for Contest-based Entertainment

By: Patrick J. Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani

Contests that are designed to be consumed for entertainment by non-contestants are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. In this paper, we examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have more uncertain outcomes. We look to... View Details

Keywords: Contest Design; Information Preferences; Consumer Demand; Sports; Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Demand and Consumers; Outcome or Result

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Article

Considerations of Fairness and Strategy: Experimental Data from Sequential Games

By: V. Prasnikar and A. E. Roth

Keywords: Fairness; Strategy; Analytics and Data Science; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

February 2010 (Revised June 2014)
Supplement

CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand Opening, and a New Paradigm

By: John D. Macomber and Griffin James

"CityCenter (D)" follows the (A), (B), and (C) cases with subsequent chronological events through CityCenter's grand opening in December 2009 and financial results through March 2010. The case includes a simple valuation exercise intended to explore CEO Jim Murren's... View Details

Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Nevada; New Jersey

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

Article

Digital Chess

By: D. B. Yoffie

Keywords: Information Technology; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

March 1975
Article

Optimal Strategies in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Strategy; Information

January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
Case

Glass Egg Digital Media

Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to offer brand-name publishers-Microsoft EA, Atari-significant cost savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

Educators

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

Turkasset began opening physical branches around the country to service customers who preferred to talk in person. Despite these additional outlays, the gamble paid off for the company by allowing it to collect a much higher percentage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

October 2006 (Revised September 2007)
Teaching Note

Electronic Arts in Online Gaming (TN)

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

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

November 1983
Article

Subjective Probability and the Theory of Games: Some Further Comment

By: A. E. Roth and F. Schoumaker

Keywords: Theory; Games, Gaming, and Gambling

June 1975
Article

The Information Revealed in Infinitely Repeated Games of Incomplete Information

By: Elon Kohlberg

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

September 1974
Article

Repeated Games of Incomplete Information: The Symmetric Case

By: Elon Kohlberg and Shmuel Zamir

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Information

October 2009
Case

Digital Chocolate

By: Linda A. Hill and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Trip Hawkins founded Digital Chocolate in Silicon Valley in 2003 to develop outstanding games for mobile devices. By 2008, the company had expanded its operations into four countries, and Digital Chocolate was one of the top developers of soloplayer games for standard... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry

Educators

April 2007 (Revised April 2011)
Teaching Note

Slots, Tables, and All that Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel (TN)

By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

Teaching note to 106029. View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Customers; Profit; Accommodations Industry