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- August 2021
- Supplement
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg
NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018–2019 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to the NBA. He also did not know what he... View Details
Keywords: Career Decisions; Career Journey; ＂Sports Organizations,; Mentoring; Retirement; Sports; Performance; Training; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Talent and Talent Management; Sports Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris. "Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 421-710, August 2021.
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
overrated when it comes to choosing coaches—and perhaps while choosing top managers as well. A successful coach-team or employee-employer match can be found even when the coach/employee is inexperienced. There are several such examples... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
played a pivotal role in the negotiations between his hockey peers and the league's owners during a grueling, 104-day lockout. In 1999, he moved seamlessly from player to assistant coach with the Bruins and began to look for ways to transfer the leadership abilities he... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
industry. The forum began with a discussion about the marketing power of social media, but quickly evolved into a conversation about race issues in the sports entertainment industry. 'unbelievable Platform' All acknowledged that Twitter... View Details
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'
By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 421-044. In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Scrum’s the Word
Calling all HBS alumni ruggers. Pack your kits and head to Soldiers Field for a fall classic October 8: the HBS Old Boys vs. the HBS Rugby Football Club. Each fall, alumni ruggers fly in from around the world for a weekend of camaraderie, centered on the Saturday... View Details
- February 1995 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
MasterCard and World Championship Soccer
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
The MasterCard vice president for global promotions and other MasterCard executives are appraising the results of MasterCard's worldwide sponsorship of the 1994 World Cup soccer championship. They must decide whether to commit to sponsor the 1998 championship to be... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cards; Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Advertising Campaigns; Globalization; Sports; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; France; United States
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "MasterCard and World Championship Soccer." Harvard Business School Case 595-040, February 1995. (Revised November 1996.)
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel from Boston’s Logan Airport —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager... View Details
- Student-Profile
Elliot Tobin
football.” After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics, management from MIT and a master’s in applied economics and data science from Boston College, the Minnesota transplant is currently balancing his HBS research in accounting and... View Details
- March 2019 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Choosing the Right Esports Business Model
By: David Collis and Alexander MacKay
Two esports entrepreneurs must choose on which business model to focus their time and money. After successfully launching an online esports coaching platform, a number of new opportunities emerge in the rapidly growing esports space that now has close to one billion... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Business Development; Esports; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Management; Strategy; Sports; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; Sports Industry; North and Central America; Europe; Asia
Collis, David, and Alexander MacKay. "Choosing the Right Esports Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 719-459, March 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
formulating negotiation strategy, strive to view the landscape as other parties see it. Returning to our hockey example, the NHL general managers had to work on at least three different levels as they raced to sign players. They had to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
China, Tension’s recent annual sales totaled more than $300 million. In conversation, Berkley moves easily between Tension’s operations and his management philosophy (“hire high-quality people, consult as needed, and let them make the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
A few weeks ago, HBS threw a party for some neighbors — the 12-0 Brighton High School Division 4 Super Bowl football champions. Most everything about HBS is high profile, but the School also does generous, thoughtful things that a lot of people never hear about. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fearless Force for Change
Linn Photo Courtesy Cycle For Survival Jennifer Goodman Linn (MBA ’99) left a legacy of hope to those who knew her and to the thousands who have been and will continue to be touched by Cycle for Survival (cycleforsurvival.org), the organization she founded with her... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Photo courtesy of Martin Frey Martin Frey (AMP 165, 2003) didn’t plan to become the first person in the world to climb the Seven Summits and sail the Seven Seas, an achievement that earned him placement in the Guinness World Records. Yet the investor, speaker, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
where they take it out on her. They don't give her good housing, or they just ostracize her. I want there to be, more than anything else, a harmonious relationship between team management and the player. And so I'll go to a certain point.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Mark Tatum
vice president of the university's Black Alumni Association. Working at Procter & Gamble after graduation, he was promoted four times in four years, eventually becoming an award-winning corporate account executive. As a regional sales View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; photograph by Webb Chappell