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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Unlocking the Power of Community
these customer-friendly terms: “Let’s make this experience first. The explanation can come later. Or never,” Fung says. For sports media brand Bleacher Report and the basketball fans who watch the cable channel TNT, that Web3-enabled... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jun 2023
- News
On the Move: Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016)
Our “On the Move” series highlights HBS alumni who are taking on new roles and responsibilities. Here we speak with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), who was announced as EVP of International Strategy & Business Operations for the Professional Fighters League (PFL) MENA region... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
Bob Reiss Photo courtesy of Bob Reiss It was 1983, and Bob Reiss (MBA 1956) was looking for a new game to play. A Brooklyn native and former basketball star at Columbia University who had become a successful entrepreneur in the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
climate—there are great opportunities for them here. There’s still much to do, but our impact is outsized here.” Touching on strategy, Victor Williams at NBA Africa says growing the basketball ecosystem from the grassroots to the elite... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Power Couple
National Basketball Association, responsible for advertising, marketing, communications, broadcasting, and merchandising. “It’s a job and a cause,” she says of the WNBA post, which she came to after stints at Nickelodeon and later at VH1... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
The NBA's African Expansion
The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Slam Dunk
Good news for basketball fanatics: Your obsession is only going to get worse, thanks to Scott O'Neil (MBA '98), president of HoopsTV.com, an Internet start-up based in Paoli, Pennsylvania. According to the Dow Jones News Service (March 9,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bruce Levy (MBA 1977)
basketball camp for girls, ever, in the Pocono Mountains. They wanted to build the sport by approaching sponsors to support women’s basketball in the few forums it had at the time. I was a big sports fan,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Photos by Karen Campbell Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) grew up in Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126. Her high school had 15 students; her graduating class, just two. So when teenaged Feickert, a gifted basketball player who was six... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
currently teaches at Stanford Business School, and Grousbeck fils, a Boston venture capitalist, purchased the team in September for $360 million, the Boston Globe reported (September 29, 2002). Pagliuca, whose grandfather was a New York City shoemaker, played freshman... View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
For Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018), who grew up in the town of Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126, basketball was a stepping stone to success in the wider world. The skills she had honed playing against the boys in her hometown earned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
Randal Bessolo (MBA 1992) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) Randal Bessolo (MBA 1992) (illustration by Gisela Goppel) I got into coaching basketball when I was 33 years old, volunteering at the Mercy Home for Boys in Chicago. Mentoring... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio
Former BBC executive Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has been named the CEO of Warner Bros.—the company’s first-ever female CEO. As detailed in the New York Times, Sarnoff’s career “has included leadership roles at Nickelodeon, the Women’s National View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
CASH (WITH THEN-CELTIC RICKY DAVIS): After blazing a trail as a college hoops star and a long career at HBS, he still possesses a nose for the ball and a knack for being where the action is. James Cash has always been around the cutting edge. An Academic All-American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Wisdom and a special cause
($48,000 last year) go to the Rhode Island Special Olympics, of which Adrain is a longtime officer and former president. Adrain contacts successful individuals and asks them to share the important beliefs that shape their lives. Thus, View Details
- 18 May 2023
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Wilfong with a laugh. Those 4th graders didn't know that "can do" was a mantra for Wilfong long before she entered their gym. A championship-winning basketball player at Indiana University who retained that no-quit attitude as an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
The Next Play
against type post-HBS as a contributor at ESPN and cohost of its new weekly radio show The Morning Roast. “I didn’t want to be the ex-jock sportscaster guy,” he told the Baltimore Sun in a recent article that details his stints as president of the NFL Players... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
laugh. "I was cold calling them." His persistence paid off: He's marking his 15th anniversary with the National Basketball Association next month—and he'll be celebrating it in a new office. Tatum was named deputy commissioner and COO of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell