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David J. Stern
Stern led the transformation of the National Basketball Association into a world class organization. He forged new labor agreements, established a model anti-drug program, and ensured the stable growth of the organization through... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
laugh. "I was cold calling them." His persistence paid off: He's marking his 15th anniversary with the National Basketball Association next month—and he'll be celebrating it in a new office. Tatum was named deputy commissioner and COO of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports
Division I college basketball player at St. John’s University. He then pivoted his career path into investment banking, corporate strategy, and management consulting before circling back to the game he loves. Now at MSG, Laitsas is... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) (photos by Neal Hamberg) Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) had a passion for basketball that dated back to middle school, a stellar record as a high school player, and an extraordinary college career as... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Portrait Project
Ashley Ng
or science experiments – but to real problems. When we moved into a one-bedroom apartment in Chicago without any furniture, my dad collected assorted scraps and built every piece. Nothing matched, but we had a kitchen table. When he couldn't send me to View Details
- 27 Aug 2019
- News
A Shot at Success
Photos by Karen Campbell Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018) grew up in Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126. Her high school had 15 students; her graduating class, just two. So when teenaged Feickert, a gifted basketball player who was six... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
currently teaches at Stanford Business School, and Grousbeck fils, a Boston venture capitalist, purchased the team in September for $360 million, the Boston Globe reported (September 29, 2002). Pagliuca, whose grandfather was a New York City shoemaker, played freshman... View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
For Rebecca Feickert (MBA 2018), who grew up in the town of Goodrich, North Dakota, population 126, basketball was a stepping stone to success in the wider world. The skills she had honed playing against the boys in her hometown earned... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
For sports fans, this time of year is like a chocolate addict's free pass to Willy Wonka's factory. Horse racing's Triple Crown. The National Basketball Association and National Hockey League championship playoffs. And next up, the most... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Creativity Maze
love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me." And Michael Jordan, perhaps the most creative basketball player ever, had a "love of the game" clause inserted into his contract; he insisted... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa Amabile
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
The Next Play
against type post-HBS as a contributor at ESPN and cohost of its new weekly radio show The Morning Roast. “I didn’t want to be the ex-jock sportscaster guy,” he told the Baltimore Sun in a recent article that details his stints as president of the NFL Players... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
2010 that leverages the popularity of NBA basketball to help middle school students master the fundamentals of math. “STEM skills are driving innovation across all sectors today,” Daugherty notes, “but 67 percent of eighth graders... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
class. Yes, you read that correctly. I was a tall, lanky kid that loved basketball above nearly everything else, and after mailing a highlight tape to universities nationwide, I was buried under a tidal wave of recruiting attention from... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.” -Bill Bradley, former pro basketball player and United States senator. When scholars discuss... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alok Sanghvi
"Drive a red Porsche" is probably what I would have responded 15 years ago. Back then I fully expected to be a lawyer, married, and able to dunk a basketball by now. Well, things have changed since my days of ripped jeans. ... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
innovation hubs will focus on “translating” its research for health care professionals, coaches, and trainers, as well as the everyday athlete. For instance, the University of Kansas’s Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory will put research into action on the View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
Ann Sarnoff To Lead Warner Bros. Studio
Former BBC executive Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987) has been named the CEO of Warner Bros.—the company’s first-ever female CEO. As detailed in the New York Times, Sarnoff’s career “has included leadership roles at Nickelodeon, the Women’s National View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Building on History
blessed to be the first African American to do a range of things in my life, starting with integrating what was called the Southwest Conference in 1965 as the first African American to receive a basketball scholarship. That was a blessing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
CASH (WITH THEN-CELTIC RICKY DAVIS): After blazing a trail as a college hoops star and a long career at HBS, he still possesses a nose for the ball and a knack for being where the action is. James Cash has always been around the cutting edge. An Academic All-American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
earlier, Dean Jay Light had presented five HBS graduates with the Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. Now they were being asked, metaphorically speaking, to pull on their basketball jerseys, tie up their sneakers, and... View Details