Sport - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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August 2005
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Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (B)

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

Sports in America have always had a magical, transcendent allure. Life may be ambiguous but slam dunks and touchdown passes create their own heroic reality and final truth at game's end. Sports are a bond... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

June 2006
Teaching Note

Hala Madrid: Managing Real Madrid Club de Futbol, the Team of the Century (TN)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

Keywords: Sports; Management; Sports Industry; Spain

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01 Sep 2024
News

Net Positive

At LOVB, designing a “community-up” volleyball ecosystem, from youth teams to a professional league. (photo by Melissa Golden) Volleyball is the number-one sport for girls in the United States by participation, yet unlike soccer and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Every year, just as Hercules cleansed the Augean Stables, some NFL teams undergo a thorough reorganization of their coaching staffs. This annual exercise in bloodletting, known as Black Monday, takes place on the first Monday after the last Sunday of the regular... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

August 2005
Supplement

Moneyball (B): Do You Get What You Pay For?

By: Frances X. Frei, Dennis Campbell and Eliot Sherman

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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June 2004 (Revised March 2005)
Teaching Note

Army Crew Team, The (TN)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Scott A. Snook

Teaching Note to (9-403-131). View Details

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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June 1983 (Revised December 1991)
Teaching Note

Utah Stars, Teaching Note

By: Henry B. Reiling

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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May 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Case

Total Fitness, Inc. (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr., Richard D.R. Stark and Marc H. Zablatsky

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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01 Mar 2011
News

Life Is a Marathon

A few days past his 90th birthday, Jon Mendes (MBA ’47) was featured right alongside a lot of younger, bigger, and more famous athletes in the sports pages of the New York Times (November 7, 2010). That’s because Mendes was about to run... View Details

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the decision to go ahead with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

18 Sep 2019
News

Level Up

There was a very specific moment when the crisis underway in the sports industry became clear to Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014). It was August 4, 2015, when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in the company’s quarterly earnings call that its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

01 Oct 2001
News

Harvard's MBA/AD

the Crimson, Scalise wrote in his HBS application that some day he wanted to be the athletic director of a major sports program, according to the Boston Globe (July 17, 2001). "My dream has come true," said Scalise, who noted that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
News

Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games

computer snafus, 98 percent of the technology worked well, a good record considering how huge an installation of software and hardware there was. What about complaints that the Games were too commercial? I have to grit my teeth a bit when that charge is leveled. Every... View Details

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

of the American Marketing Association's 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award. The power of "The Rings"—the brand power of the Olympics—derives from the global recognition of the five rings (representing the five... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

January 2012 (Revised November 2012)
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Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate (B)

By: George Serafeim and Kyle Welch

The case describes the financial performance and business development of UFC after the change in ownership that happened in 2000, until 2004, when the owners are considering exiting the business. View Details

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

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