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Rena Clark
career choices fit into overall life goals, including interests like family, volunteer work, and other personal passions. Rena’s background, which includes leadership roles at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, GenNx360 Capital Partners, The Kraft View Details
- February 2017
- Article
How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics
By: Doug J. Chung
Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past several decades. In this study, we investigate the short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Panel Data; Heterogeneity; Instrumental Variables; Intercollegiate Athletics; Educational Finance; Entertainment Marketing; Higher Education; Marketing; Sports; Revenue; Education Industry; United States
Chung, Doug J. "How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics." Management Science 63, no. 2 (February 2017): 548–565.
Mark H. McCormack
McCormack was considered a pioneer in sports marketing. He worked with individual athletes to secure lucrative endorsements including Arnold Palmer, Wayne Gretzky, Monica Seles and Tiger Woods. McCormack also worked with a number of View Details
Keywords: Services
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
Her interests leaned more in the direction of strategy—and sports. Rapaport found plenty of outlets in both areas at HBS, where she was president of the Business of Sports Club. She also volunteered for Crossover into Business, an HBS... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Better Basketball in 20 Minutes
- 06 Oct 2013
- News
HBS Rugby Players Celebrate 50-year Anniversary
- Web
Ryan Leung | MBA
from passion to sustainable business. Tech areas of interest: SportsTech, creator space, passion economy, fintech, social consumer Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: In my sophomore summer, I worked on a companion app for live View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance Olympic Legacy and Prevent Olympic Sites from Becoming White Elephants
By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser
In recent years, the total spending on hosting the Olympic Games has snowballed. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games spent $40 billion on infrastructure development, and the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics reached $50 billion. Even when the glorious but costly Olympic Games come... View Details
Keywords: Olympic Venue; Effective Reuse; White Elephant; Sustainability; Buildings and Facilities; Sports
Okada, Isao, and Stephen A. Greyser. "After the Carnival: Key Factors to Enhance Olympic Legacy and Prevent Olympic Sites from Becoming White Elephants." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-019, August 2018.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two passions with the debut of ACTAI, an invitation-only... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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.)
Michael D. Eisner
Eisner has also upgraded and expanded Disney’s theme parks and hotels, and has added hundreds of retail Disney Stores. In 1995, Eisner acquired the ABC Television Network and ESPN, the cable sports network. Eisner has also grown the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 08 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics
- 14 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
Dhani Jones, a six-foot-one, 240-pound linebacker for the Super Bowl runner-up Philadelphia Eagles, knows a lot about running around a football field. But he's a rookie when it comes to running his bow tie company. "I love my bow ties, but the business aspect... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room
aren’t so different from our own. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Professional football players are larger-than-life people, both literally and figuratively. When you think about the role that the sport plays in our culture, given that, what has... View Details
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Brian T. Bedol
While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a classic View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
with post-COVID construction costs soaring, political winds have shifted away from solely taxpayer-funded venues toward public-private partnerships. As the global head of sports finance at Goldman Sachs, Sonnenberg works to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
Paris Wallace
Paris Wallace (He/Him) is the CEO & Founder of NCL (Hiring). EIR @ Harvard Business School. Investor. DEI Crusader. Cyclist. Ovia Health (Acquired: LH). Good Start Genetics (Acquired: NVTA) Paris is the founder and CEO of the NCL the first majority-minority and female... View Details
- 23 Mar 2014
- News