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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
As a lifelong runner who spent countless hours training and competing his way up to the national level, Professor Paul Gompers has always believed that his athletic experiences were critical to shaping who he is, both as a competitor and in the professional sphere. Now... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
Lagace: Your work highlights the pros and cons of hiring high-performing or "star" employees. How and why did studying the career trajectories of star football players give you a window on better management of organizations and careers?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
Fan Experience “New mixed reality integrations, sports betting, and gamified experiences are changing the way that fans are consuming sports. We are already seeing this with immersive media, particularly in the interactivity that is... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
Working Papers Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been planted.” After HBS, Gelman... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
demographics of America shift," he explains. With a relatively short season compared to other sports leagues, the NFL has scored by developing the off-season draft and scouting combine into days-long, high-powered media events. This could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
mandate and management of international trade negotiations. Historically, legitimacy for GATT and later the WTO was understood to derive from expanding membership and success at major trade round negotiations. In the past decade, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details
- November 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Supplement
Discovering Hidden Gems: The Story of Daryl Morey, Shane Battier, and the Houston Rockets (B)
By: Frances X. Frei and Matthew Todd Perlberg
Supplement to the (A) case. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Matthew Todd Perlberg. "Discovering Hidden Gems: The Story of Daryl Morey, Shane Battier, and the Houston Rockets (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 610-039, November 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- June 2019
- Teaching Note
The National Hockey League
By: Robert F. Higgins and John Masko
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-036. View Details
Keywords: Sports; Media; Multinational Firms and Management; Expansion; Strategy; Sports Industry; United States; Canada
- July 1995 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
Baseball Strike, The
Describes structural conditions in the American baseball industry in 1995. Although this case covers conditions leading to the 1994-95 strike, it is designed primarily for analysis of the structural tensions that arise between suppliers, buyers, and rivals as industry... View Details
Keywords: Industry Structures; Sports; Labor and Management Relations; Sports Industry; United States
McGahan, Anita M., John F. McGuire, and Julia Kou. "Baseball Strike, The." Harvard Business School Case 796-059, July 1995. (Revised September 1997.)
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
stud fees for an additional several million in winnings? More wins could mean higher stud fees. But the sad demise of Barbaro and Eight Belles have got to give you pause. Then there’s the sport itself to consider. The number of racing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Style Check
run at a particularly glamorous assignment: managing the Benetton Group’s Formula 1 racing team. Named deputy chairman of the company last spring, Benetton has now been charged with revitalizing the firm’s line and leading its expansion... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
her path through international sports and investment banking to becoming a leading advocate for women in sports and business. “I ran and led a leading football club in Turkey for over a decade. Then I joined... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
guests. “I am inspired and empowered by your philanthropy, and I am determined to offer a strong return on your investment,” she said, citing her future goal of launching a nonprofit arts and sports center in the Brooklyn neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details