Olympics - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms. Judging by recent news, they don't... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2022
News

China Locks Down Ahead of the Winter Olympics

2008
Blog

Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: How Olympics Branding Is Shaping China

By: John A. Quelch

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01 Dec 1996
News

Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games

A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG), was featured in a June 1996 Bulletin article about the Olympics. Now a partner at Invesco, an Atlanta-based investment management firm that manages... View Details

05 Jun 2015
News

Soccer-FIFA crisis worse than anything in Olympics scandal

June 2013
Teaching Note

Olympic Rent-A-Car U.S.: Customer Loyalty Battles (Brief Case)

By: John Deighton and James T. Kindley

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06 Feb 2014
News

Why the X Games Won't Dethrone the Olympics

Keywords: disruptive innovation; sports; competitive advantage; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2013
News

Sochi Preview

Alexander Zhukov (PMD 61, 1991) With the Winter Olympics just months away, it's not only the athletes who are beginning to feel the pressure to perform well. Alexander Zhukov (PMD 61, 1991) is president of the Russian View Details

Keywords: olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

18 Aug 2008
News

What the Olympics tell us about China and India

July 2014
Article

Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games

By: Andrew Davies and Ian Mackenzie

Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that systems integration is one of the major challenges involved in delivery of a complex "system of systems"—or array—project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Construction; Complexity; Sports; Projects; Construction Industry; Sports Industry; London

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November 2007
Teaching Note

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Christopher Marquis and Alison Comings

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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2008
Blog

Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: How Companies Should Play the Olympics

By: John A. Quelch

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October 2006 (Revised November 2007)
Supplement

Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and the 2004 Athens Olympic Games (B)

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie and Yannis Katsarakis

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry; Greece

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27 Jul 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Mixing Sports and Money: Adidas and the Commercialization of the Olympics

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Sports; Apparel & Accessories

01 Mar 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)

Nagano in 1998, it was the first time that women’s hockey was offered as an Olympic sport. There’s nothing like hearing the national anthem and being on top of the podium with your teammates. That’s part of why I kept playing for so... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Olympics; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment