{"id":22,"date":"2007-08-03T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/08\/03\/ma-for-you-and-me\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T14:07:58","slug":"ma-for-you-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/08\/03\/ma-for-you-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;A for you and me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online implementation of the board game Acquire, <a href=\"http:\/\/gethostile.com\" title=\"Get Hostile\">Get Hostile<\/a> provides a no-risk outlet for would-be private equity managers (thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/laboratorium.net\/archive\/2007\/07\/23\/two_timewasters\" title=\"Laboratorium\">James<\/a>, for the hot tip!).\u00a0 It incorporates strategic battles between investors; strategic (geographic) complementarities between firms, uncertainty about the timing\/location\/control of opportunities to establish new firms,\u00a0 financing constraints, and windfalls for top dogs.\u00a0 Pretty amazing, I&#8217;d say, given the game&#8217;s tremendous simplicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online implementation of the board game Acquire, Get Hostile provides a no-risk outlet for would-be private equity managers (thanks, James, for the hot tip!).\u00a0 It incorporates strategic battles between investors; strategic (geographic) complementarities between firms, uncertainty about the timing\/location\/control of opportunities to establish new firms,\u00a0 financing constraints, and windfalls for top dogs.\u00a0 Pretty amazing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}