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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Recently the CEO of a very well known consumer brand nearly scared the wits out of me. 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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Embrace the Complexity of Cyber Defense

Harvard Business Review

Game Theory is useful for understanding strategic interactions when parties have competing interests. Game Theory can help us understand how better to defend the system, or conversely, how better to evade it. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk. Complex systems rarely eliminate malicious threats permanently.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Economics and game theory also provide valuable insight into the study of trust (cf. As the CEO or manager, demonstrate through your questions, actions, and policies, that you understand the interests of your staff and/or team members and that their interests are reflected in the way you make decisions.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

I found a plane ticket and arrived in time for dinner with the CEO of the Australian Industry Group — not the government, strictly speaking, but heavily involved in the country's politics. "Someone from the Australian government is in Savannah today, and he's trying to track you down. He has your article and wants to talk about it.".