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01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it was the week after the... View Details

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going to think that that’s a very... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

Europe. "The NFL has the difficult task of trying to introduce a sport that people don't understand, into cultures where soccer is an obsession," Alcacer notes. "For MLB, the NBA, and the NHL, the globalization strategy was to bring in... View Details

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

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

both have enjoyed the flexibility to raise our two sons, from coaching soccer to building haunted houses for Halloween to inviting the boys and their friends to be interns at the company. Now our eldest son serves as VP of sales and will... View Details

19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe

level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to play View Details

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

01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment

together and derive comprehensive solutions. This really clicked when we had a case on child labor. This, to me, was a clearly abhorrent situation. Why would it be OK to have 10-year-old children chained while stitching soccer balls?... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details

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