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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Some Racquet
Korff, with Jennifer Capriati (left) and Monica Seles Photo courtesy of Korff Enterprises In an era of corporate sports, John Korff (MBA '77) is a throwback to the days of the maverick impresario. A promoter of sporting events, hot-air balloon festivals, and other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
“I showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring.' He put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out.” —New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), on the 2005 disappearance of his $25,000 Super... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
“If I had known how hard it would be, I never would have done it. But I’m really glad I did.” That was the most common response among the group of fifteen HBS alumni and friends who participated in the pre-safari optional adventure of climbing the highest peak in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Center Court
It was a big boost for American tennis when Andy Roddick triumphed at the U.S. Open in September, and no one was more pleased than United States Tennis Association president Alan Schwartz (MBA 1954). Having an exciting young American player win the country’s premier... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score (or should I say “SCO-ORE!”), could the Bruins’ remarkable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
"People like to see other people do outlandish things." —Barry Frank (MBA 1957), legendary sports-media dealmaker and producer of Battle of the Network Stars and American Gladiators. (Variety, September 24, 2012) View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Under the Hood
There’s more to a championship racing organization than a hot driver and a lightning-fast pit crew. Just ask NASCAR ace Tony Stewart about Brett Frood (MBA 2004), whom he hired eight years ago to run all his racing-related businesses as COO of Stewart-Haas Racing. “One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
Photography by Robert Schoen As a boy growing up in Flin Flon, a small mining town four hundred miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ken Baumgartner did what many Canadian boys do to pass the long winters: He played hockey. But unlike many of his friends who dreamed of... View Details
- 20 Jun 2008
- News
Risk and Reward
Like many horse racing fans, I was disappointed when Big Brown met defeat at the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7. After the bay colt’s impressive wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, railbirds were hopeful that he would be the first horse in thirty years to win... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
survivors, the future of e-commerce and other info tech industries seemed perilous. BusinessWeek.com recently ranked Amazon #6 in its annual list of most innovative companies; four of the other five are internet or computer businesses. In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
result, I definitely felt different as I sought opportunities in a less traditional space — entertainment and media — with a later recruiting time frame. How about you, Sonia? Sonia Sahney: I feel like I’ve taken advantage of the... View Details
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Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules
By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore laws and regulations that appear to preclude their approach. The rule-flouting phenomenon is something we call "spontaneous private deregulation," and it is not new. Benign or otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Deregulation; Innovation And Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin. "Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 80–87.
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping change across an View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance