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  • 11 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

How can you negotiate when the rules suddenly change, and no one knows whether your particular market is headed up or down? Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, National Hockey View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports
  • October 2013
  • Article

Ferguson's Formula

By: Anita Elberse and Sir Alex Ferguson
When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years and faced a very real threat of being relegated to a lower division. In 26 seasons under Ferguson,... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Success; Sports; Sports Industry; England
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  • 14 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

Keywords: by Andrew Hill & David Thomas; Sports
  • Research Summary

Strategic Human Capital

My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details

  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

al-Maktoum family, Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates, invested heavily in its infrastructure to reduce national dependence on oil and gas reserves. As an established international destination for shipping, business initiatives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Tim Leiweke reviewed how his development group and partners had completely rebuilt an aging Seattle landmark into the world’s greenest arena, carrying the visible name Climate Pledge Arena. It had attracted a new National Hockey League franchise, the Kraken, and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
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  • March 2025
  • Teaching Note

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Buildings; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Seattle
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Rupert Murdoch’s fledgling Fox Network unexpectedly displaced longtime incumbent CBS as the host of the National Football League’s flagship programming. Fox’s negotiating success seemed most unlikely given... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

Ferguson's Formula By: Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson Abstract—When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: it hadn't won a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
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  • December 2019
  • Case

Small-Market Teams and Big Stars: The Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo

By: Anita Elberse and Melcolm Ruffin
In October 2019, National Basketball Association (NBA) team the Milwaukee Bucks are about to tip off their first home game in the 2019–2020 NBA season. Peter Feigin, president of the Milwaukee Bucks, and Jon Horst, the league’s youngest general manager, could look back... View Details
Keywords: Superstars; Talent and Talent Management; Sports; Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

A may prefer to accept lower future profits in order to interact with a monopolist complement in B. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-009.pdf Unraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
    • Web

    Hiring Organizations

    National Basketball Association - NBA National Football League - NFL Nelo Netflix Neuberger Berman New Balance New England Innovation Academy New... View Details
    • 29 Feb 2024
    • HBS Case

    Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

    Cultivating an influential brand Known for finding the net with improbable bending free kicks, Beckham rose from a working-class English background to captain the English national team and play in three FIFA World Cups. In 2007 at age 31,... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • 06 Nov 2015
    • Blog Post

    Casey Gerald: Becoming a Leader at HBS

    Selected by his peers as the 2014 student speaker for graduation, Casey Gerald’s impassioned speech to his fellow MBAs quickly garnered national attention. Highlighting the motivation that has shaped his ambitious career, Casey urged his... View Details
    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Suffrage Association; National Woman’s Party; Lucy Stone; Susan B. Anthony; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Alice Paul; 20th Amendment; National League of Women’s Voters; feminism;... View Details
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Joseph P. Routh Pittston Company, 1939–1976 Pete Rozelle National Football League, 1960–1989 William J. Ruane Sequoia Fund, 1970–2005 Helena Rubinstein Helena Rubinstein, 1915–1965 Margaret F. Rudkin... View Details
    • Web

    Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

    Past Programs Past Programs A pilot program, launched in the fall of 2017 in partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA), involved ten active and recently active NBA players as well as twenty second-year MBA students and... View Details