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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

And then customize the definition for your industry. For example, being able to think strategically in the high-tech industry involves a nuanced understanding of strategy topics such as network effects, platforms, and standards.

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Determining Liability In Accidents Involving Driverless Cars

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Columbia Law School promises to help the industry move forward, with their joint fault-based liability rule used to regulate both the vehicle manufacturers and human drivers. The researchers built a game theory inspired model to show how actors might interact with one another. ” Modeling the world.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the true paradox that smart, trailblazing companies are solving is how to outperform their competition by collaborating with their competition. Here's how and why this matters to you. Therefore it's time to extend the concept of game theory to upstream activities too. The other 70 percent winds up in landfills.

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Should You Put World of Warcraft on Your Resume?

Harvard Business Review

Harvard has used high-stakes poker as a real-world game theory laboratory for strategic thinking. Depending on the industry, a sharp MBA who’s a scratch golfer may well have a leg up in a job interview or sales meeting. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are famous for their love of and prowess in bridge.

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How to hack a management system [brief talk]

Ask Atma

I am an industrial psychologist. Game theory applications – tapping into mutualistic dynamics. [A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft]. My name is Atma. That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids. Part of the power of organizational psychology is that it leverages emotional energy.

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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. Sometimes business regulation improved social welfare, sometimes it didn’t, usually the key was exactly how the regulation was structured. Should we lower our prices?”