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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In mining, leaders must understand the strategic implications of cost curves, game theory, and real-options valuation; further, they must know and be sensitive to the stakeholders in their regulatory and societal environment, many of whom can directly influence their opportunities to create value.

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Al Roth’s Pioneering Work In “Market Design”

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To check out all the resources, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Al Roth, expert in game theory, experimental economics, and market design, is all about getting economists more [.]. Mangelsdorf and featured online by MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Nate Silver on Finding a Mentor, Teaching Yourself Statistics, and Not Settling in Your Career

Harvard Business Review

But my experience is all working with baseball data, or learning game theory because you want to be better at poker, right? Now, if you feel like you’re expressing yourself and getting the gist of something and you’re still not being listened to, then maybe it’s time to change careers.

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How to Make Unlimited Vacation Time Work at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

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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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

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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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

The unsolvable problem that has become the "white whale" of my career's own captain story was posed by Nick Donofrio, IBM's senior vice president of technology (and official protector of innovators) a year before I wrote "Breaking Out." "Captain, we are checkmated," Spock would say. The HBR article was the result.