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- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
president of media strategy and digital media for the NFL, was faced with the challenge of determining the league's strategic approach to the wireless market—and presenting his views to NFL team owners. What was the league's best strategy...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Research
and how they interact with their peers. Their job title doesn’t include the word “manager,” but they play an outsize role in how teams perform. In this article, NFL great Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria, of Harvard Business School, present a...
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- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
caught the eye of major brands and led to marketing contracts. Ultimately, Sanders would go on to become one of the only athletes in the world to simultaneously play professional football and baseball, winning two Super Bowls in the NFL...
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Past Programs - Crossover Into Business
early to get ready for life outside basketball. ” Lance Thomas NBA Player Apply Past Participants Steven Adams NBA Kristie Ahn WTA Kayla Alexander WNBA Al-Farouq Aminu NBA Calvin Anderson NFL Henry Anderson View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
In a famous scene from the film "Jerry Maguire," NFL wide receiver Rod Tidwell repeatedly screams, "Show me the money!" as his agent listens on the other end of the telephone. Intuition might tell us that showing the money motivates, and...
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by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
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Skydeck - Alumni
waitress. The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast McDonald’s SVP Kristy Cunningham (MBA 1998) , who helped lead the company’s wildly successful all-day breakfast initiative, talks about what the global icon learned from the experience—and what it taught her about herself...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
categories. Take, for starters, the food and beverage model: Like any bowling alley, Top Golf, or the Kansas City–based Chicken N Pickle (with NFL investors Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce), these establishments lure people in with an...
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Past Issues - Alumni
blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too. Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL The world's premier league of spectacle and sport has an ambitious plan for growth. But some formidable challenges—everything...
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- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
negotiator who doesn't have either an explicit understanding about emotions, or is highly intuitive about the process." Negotiating In The NFL Wasynczuk (HBS MBA '83) should know—he served as chief operating officer for the New...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
a more favorable market environment for our impact model, so there was some concern as to whether our model was portable. That building is now one of PD’s best-performing assets.” Inspiration: Former NFL wide receiver Jerry Rice. “No one...
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Julia Hanna
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What is an HBS Section? - MBA
the son of a US Senator, a first generation college student from Arizona, a Canadian Olympic ping pong player, a former NFL cheerleader (and MIT engineer), and a Westpoint grad/Iraq war veteran bonding over an intense game of intramural...
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- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
the NFL does simply from television contracts, those monies annually dwarf all the numbers you just mentioned, which include everything for baseball. Baseball may be bouncing back to some degree, but at the end of the day, it still...
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- 02 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip
At the NFL I was responsible for the holistic wellness of active and retired football players as well as coaches and staff. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? 2+2 made many of my decisions between undergrad...
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- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
Friday night fight every week of the year. (Courtesy of ONE FC) Navigating those complexities could result in a big payoff, of course. “The NBA or NFL sell their media rights to companies for billions of dollars,” says Sityodtong. “The...
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- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
on Super Bowl can have a negative effect on a brand, but it's a calculation that, I think, the best brands make and they make wisely. Another case I have is on Nike and (former NFL quarterback) Colin Kaepernick, and the decision to use...
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- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by...
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Pete Rozelle
When Rozelle became NFL commissioner in 1960, the league was a loose structure of autonomous teams. Rozelle, seeing the potential for professional sports as a big business, made two very important changes: consolidation of the View Details
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- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
head — incurred from Pop Warner through the NFL — have rocked the sport. (One telling statistic: NFL veterans can expect much shorter lives than the male population at large.) Many other contact sports —...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
sold and moved outside the region. Now, he and his son Jonathan Kraft (MBA '90), the Patriots' vice chairman, have established the Pats as a solid NFL franchise and likely contender for years to come. "When we bought this team eight years...
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