Business Game Time

What the final seconds of Super Bowl 46 teach us about strategic options, implications, choices, game theory, coordination and behavior under pressure.

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This is to motivate us. To ask ourselves why we are doing what we are doing. To get back the joy. And it’s about how to best throw golf clubs…

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One of the most unusual post-season touchdowns ever in the NFL shows us that things aren’t automatically right just because it’s the majority’s opinion.

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A chilly day in Madrid, Spain, November 2005. I was lucky I scored a ticket to one of the biggest matches in soccer: Real Madrid vs. FC Barcelona. Two of the best teams in the world meeting in this classic at the Santiago Bernabeu in the heart of the Spanish capital. 15 minutes into the [...]

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We’re right in carnival season in many parts of the world, therefore allow me to come up with a rather funny story this time. It is all about one of the most bizarre soccer matches of all time. Sit back, relax and let me invite you to let your minds flow to the Caribbean, to [...]

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Tomorrow the draw for the next FIFA World Cup, the biggest tournament in soccer, will take place. It will determine which teams are going meet in the group stage in South Africa next year, trying to make it to the knock-out stages. As usual in these draws, there is a seeding in place. But what’s [...]

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