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Mike Maples Jr.
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a...
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- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
factors that might affect the future course of this battle, such as the role of copy protection features in HD devices, the bundling of each format with video game consoles, and competing modes of delivering...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
allows you to have remote employees, allows, even, you to have a big building with people that can’t find each other to get stuff done quicker. I think that was a major change in workforce development. I think the other one was Zoom. I actually think Zoom was a View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
took a job at Stride Rite. By the time eBay came along, I was at Hasbro in Rhode Island. Fortunately, my husband was game to move back to California. What was your first reaction when a recruiter asked you to consider interviewing at...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the government just isn’t perceived as a cool place to work. Faced with the opportunity to spend your days in brightly colored offices with video game rooms and bountiful cafeterias, why would young talent...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 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....
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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;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
United States;
Minnesota;
Minneapolis;
Saint Paul;
St. Paul
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Michael Maples
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local...
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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
other forms of competition in strategy and organizations. Next, we organize and review the findings of three ostensibly separate theoretical perspectives that have arisen from game theory, competitive dynamics, and institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
provide software developers in sectors ranging from video games to engineering simulation with training, tools, and support for application development tailored to exploit the unique capabilities of NVIDIA...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
have to be a game changer—someone who is delivering value for tomorrow. Consequently, we need managers who build teams that are “collaborative-ready” and who can cultivate healthy relationships across the organization. In today’s world,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
culture, leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
scholars to devote more resources to obtaining a fundamental understanding of contemporary and future practice and how analytic tools and contemporary advances in accounting and related disciplines can be deployed to improve the professional practice of accounting....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
less like a game of Russian roulette; high prices and grumpy drivers were all too common. “People didn’t trust the Malaysian taxi system,” says Anthony Tan, echoing criticisms of Jakartan taxis and ojek. Tan recalls the early days of the...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
McDonald’s gift certificates every Christmas. Flatley would usually head to McDonald’s with her mom and siblings after gymnastics class—a special, happy family moment amidst the chaos of crammed schedules. Cunningham’s local McDonald’s was a go-to post-soccer View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Dialogue Welcome and Introductions Laura Morgan Roberts, Robin Ely,...
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General Management: Processes and Action
General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,...
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Change Management;
Communication Strategy;
Decision Making;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Knowledge Management;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Management Style;
Management Teams;
Managerial Roles;
Resource Allocation;
Business Processes;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Strategic Planning;
Conflict and Resolution;
Power and Influence;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
Video Game Industry;
China;
India;
United States
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
become less critical of the experience—in this study, less sensitive to possible bugs while playing an otherwise identical “revised” video game—and whether this mediates the effect of revision framing on positive evaluations. Studies 5A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
7,000 messages a day in subtle ways, not so subtle ways. And it's everything from things they hear on the radio or other music they're listening to T-shirts people are wearing to video games to things...
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