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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
entrepreneurship, the first module in April focused on issues such as business structure, taxes, and spreadsheet analysis. For the second module in May, participants brought their own business or investment ideas for discussion. The program is part of an ongoing... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
American Youth Football National Championships in 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The tournament also presented leadership challenges as some of the team’s paperwork was mishandled by administrators. As a result,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
traditional sports—and it is only the beginning.” —Angela Ruggiero Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996), CMO at Fan Controlled Football League (photo courtesy of Jen Rottenberg) Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996), CMO at Fan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
of hedge funds, and encourage companies to contribute positively to society. The National Football League is Martin’s exemplar because it does all it can do to improve the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
television have always been mutually beneficial - sports provide television with a source of programming and content and a way of attracting viewers for other, nonsports program offerings. And for the four principal sports leagues, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
titles. League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (a first-person shooter game), and Dota 2 (a team-based battlefield game) jostle for dominance—the baseball, basketball, and football of American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
Formerly NBA senior vice president for business and league operations, Dennis Robinson (MBA ’90) is the new president and CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, overseer of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, which Robinson... View Details
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
little bit about how American women basketball players began playing professionally in Europe? Levy: Well, it happened like this. There were leagues in Europe-- very amateur except that the players would get paid modest sums. And no one... 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
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Longtime Harvard Athletic Director Retires
overseeing some 42 intercollegiate teams. Scalise joined the department in 1974 as the head coach of the men’s lacrosse team, later becoming the first head coach of women’s soccer. Since he became director in 2001, the Gazette notes, “Harvard has won 22 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
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser
In his MBA elective, The Business of Sports, Professor Stephen A. Greyser brings an insider's knowledge to topics such as league development, sports and the media, corporate sponsorship of sports, marketing for teams in turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Giving Live Sports Another Dimension
technology. (The company also has deals with the Erie BayHawks, a National Basketball Hall of Fame and minor league NBA team.) Using your phone, you can home in on a geographic beacon like the pitcher’s... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
A Player's View: Gord Kluzak (MBA '98)
Sadly, hockey-mad Canada has few cities that can sustain an NHL team economically, so it's losing teams to U.S. cities." Commenting on the first-time-ever participation of NHL stars on national teams at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Japan,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
and the Cherokee reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, where he was a football player and top student—not a plant whisperer. It would be decades before Keen fully understood the role that growing things could play in educating others... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
1998, and he decided to live his dream. He cofounded and then bought majority control of an independent minor league baseball team. At Swarthmore, I was captain of the baseball team and wanted nothing more in life than to play baseball... View Details