Sport - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2023 (Revised May 2025)
Teaching Note

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman

Teaching Note for "On," HBS Case No. 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the Speedboard, and... View Details

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16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

the conference they'd also be checking their e-mail and navigating the news or their personal life, conducting what he called parallelism. But a subset of the tech-savvy group would already be miles ahead, he said. They would be sporting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

17 Mar 2015
News

The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

business development and strategy from your vocabulary.” That’s a pretty awesome mustache mug you have on your Twitter profile (see https://twitter.com/aenbar). Any chance you’ll be sporting a real one in the future? “Ha-ha. Not likely.”... View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

March 2004 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics

By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Courtney Purrington

After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Planning; Practice; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Sports; System

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23 Feb 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

thing: “Sports. Pirates, Steelers, Penguins, anything black and gold. Pittsburgh just reverberates around its sports teams.” Life lesson: Learned in HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s class. “The real engine behind being successful is... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

until seventh grade, basketball until eighth grade, football until ninth. Then I wrestled and threw the shot put and discus through high school. The faster the ball moved — or the smaller it got — the sooner my career in that sport was... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Dec 2011
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An HBS gift guide

as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

10 Oct 2018
News

Building Paths to Success

southeast Australia, with supportive, attentive parents who created opportunities for success. His dad was the first in four generations to attend college and he worked as the high school principal. “We were very involved in the local View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 1999
News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

Kosztyo have made that concept a reality, with BuyerWeb currently boasting some five hundred participating merchants (mostly small or specialty businesses) from fourteen different categories of products and services, including items such as cigars, coins, wine, and... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 May 2025
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Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO, leading efforts on social inclusion, gender equality, youth support, anti-racism, sports values, and scientific ethics, including AI governance. She spearheaded UNESCO’s AI Ethics Recommendation,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

the competitive sports arena-- and reaffirm my deep belief that everybody, that every citizen and every leader can be a champion of change, and can, by working really together, create the relationships, create the visions, and create the... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

has steered off course. What do men and women not get about each other? Women just don’t get that men are remarkably simple. A sandwich, some sports on TV, and sex — you’ve got a happy man. Women are unnecessarily complicated, and men... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

H-1B admissions by 10 percent resulted in a 1 percent increase of total patented inventions. However, the H-1B program seemingly had no sweeping effect on the number of patents sporting Anglo-Saxon names, indicating that immigrants were... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

HBS senior lecturer David Edelman exploring "The Future of AI and the Customer Experience." Upcoming discussions in the series include "The Future of Leadership in the Digital Era," "ChatGPT and the Future of AI," and "The Future of View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2011
News

Mr. Start-Up

Ultimate Frisbee with one, and I could tell by the way he played he’d be a terrific person to do a company with. The other was a woman who almost made the Canadian Olympic marathon team. People who are intense about sports often bring... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

inevitably results in the same spotlight on oneself. The Brazilians may well think, as Hamlet did when turning the tables on his adversaries, "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard." View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

models (including 11 in North America) slated to debut over the next three years. The lineup features the rotary-powered RX-8 sports car and the all-new midsize Mazda6, which, Fields proudly notes, has “class-leading driving dynamics,... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

power. Power brings the ability to trade favors. Watch likeability grow along with respect when enough women win top spots and can get people things they desire–budgets, promotions, tickets to sports matches, introductions to celebrities,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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