Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. The Theory of Industrial Organization was just the first.

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By translating game theory into pragmatic business strategy, Co-opetition cleverly showed companies a new path to revenue growth: It's better to own 20 percent share of a $10 billion market than it is to own 75 percent share of a $2 billion market.

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Co-Opetition Company Brandenburger Game Theory 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Theoretically, marketers could take advantage of this information glut to withhold facts and figures they’d prefer we didn’t see. But how do consumers react when marketers withhold information that would be relevant to their decisions? We suspected that consumers would be deaf to marketers’ silence.

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Information Products Productivity Game Theory 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

Complexity science seeks to find the universal principles and mathematics underlying and unifying a wide variety of complex systems, including the Internet, biological systems, ecologies, markets, and economic systems, political systems, and societies. Complex systems rarely eliminate malicious threats permanently.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

Through a clever mix of game theory and cryptography, bitcoin replicates financial systems’ ability to transfer value, but without any of the labor typically involved in running and securing transactions. It’s not surprising that some of the closer-to-market applications of the technology are in the financial sector.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

But there’s some evidence to suggest that showing trust in others actually helps them trust you more – researchers who study game theory consistently find that when one person shows faith in another, the second person’s faith in others also rises.

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Company Policies Game Theory How To 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right?

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Mentor Career Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

What the United States needs are smart economic policies that disrupt the market forces that are currently driving undocumented immigration. In game theory, this sort of situation is known as a “chicken-and-egg problem.” million American jobs that depend on that trade. A Wall Would Hurt American Pocketbooks.

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Policies Game Theory Incentives Document 12

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2024

How online news works Some researchers at George Mason University used game theory to figure out how online news works. In the simulation, they looked at different situations, like a free-for-all market and a market dominated by a powerful state. These websites tried to attract readers who leaned more left or right.

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