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Sports Management

Professor Fearing's secondary research interest in sports management shares an emphasis on developing new metrics to help understand and improve performance.

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Keywords: Sports Management; Sports Industry

February 2017
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Dick's Sporting Goods

By: Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble

Edward Stack, chairman and CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), faced a rapidly changing sporting goods landscape in October 2016. Two large competitors—The Sports Authority and Sport Chalet—had folded earlier that year, and DKS had to contend with increasingly robust... View Details

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September 2017
Teaching Note

Dick's Sporting Goods

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble

This is the teaching note to accompany Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Matthew G. Preble, “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” HBS No. 517-007 (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017). View Details

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December 2018
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DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports

By: Robert F. Higgins and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company’s valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon... View Details

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January 2021 (Revised January 2022)
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Dick's Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)

By: George A. Riedel

Dick's Sporting Goods was one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and specifically following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack, the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading... View Details

Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Sporting Goods; Sport; Human Behavior; Violence; Ethics; Decision Making; Social Issues; Corporate Accountability; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2010
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Greyser Honored for Sports Business Achievement

Stephen A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his “distinguished... View Details

Keywords: awards; business of sports; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

September 2000
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Quokka Sports

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Stephanie Mason Ogborne and Julie C. Toscano

Quokka Sports is an example of one of the new broadband services focused in total immersion sports. Quokka faces two issues: 1) the broadband infrastructure is emerging slowly so the type of services offered needs to be decided on. 2) Quokka faces an explosion of... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Decisions; Information Publishing; Infrastructure; Competition; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry

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08 Oct 2010
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HBS Sports Professor Awarded for Work in Sports Business

January 2021
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Dick's Sporting Goods: Getting Out of The Gun Business (B)

By: George A. Riedel

Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Sporting Goods

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March 2003 (Revised January 2006)
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Threshold Sports

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Todd H Thedinga

Describes the sales, marketing, and operating issues facing Threshold Sports, a small cycling event management company that produces the Pro Cycling Tour. Examines the issues facing the company as it approaches breakeven and attempts to grow the business substantially.... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Bicycle Transportation; Service Delivery; Sports; Bicycle Industry; Service Industry

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Business of Sports Club

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

October 1994 (Revised August 2006)
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Sport Obermeyer Ltd.

By: Janice H. Hammond and Ananth Raman

The case describes operations at a skiwear design and merchandising company and its supply partner. Introduces production planning for short-life-cycle products with uncertain demand and allows students to analyze a reduced version of the company's production planning... View Details

Keywords: Product; Supply Chain; Demand and Consumers; Production; Planning; Globalized Markets and Industries; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; United States; Hong Kong

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August 2009
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Bank of America Sports Sponsorship

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John L. Teopaco

A major sports sponsor must decide on new, renewal, or withdrawal from significant relations with teams/leagues/events, using a distinctive approach to assessment. View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Evaluation; Financing and Loans; Marketing Strategy; Sports Industry

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27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

the National Ability Center in Park City, Utah, which provides year-round adaptive sports and recreation activities, including horseback riding, cycling, mountain biking, waterskiing, climbing, and others. Inspired, Perez de Leza started... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

15 Jul 2024
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A Sporting Chance

varied career, which has included jobs in consulting, technology, retail, and finally real estate. Looking for a way to stay healthy after his accident, Perez de Leza first took up hand-crank cycling, and then adaptive skiing. Inspired, he started recruiting and... View Details

March 2003 (Revised June 2003)
Teaching Note

Threshold Sports (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Todd H Thedinga

Teaching Note for (9-803-134). View Details

Keywords: Sports Industry

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Business of Sports

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