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  • March 2025
  • Case

YouTube: Bidding for NFL Sunday Ticket

By: Anita Elberse and Crystal Yao
In December 2022, Erin Teague, a senior director and the global head of sports, movies and shows at YouTube, technology giant Alphabet Inc.’s video- sharing platform, received the news that Sundar Pichai, the chief executive officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary... View Details
Keywords: General Management; Entertainment; Media; Sports; Marketing; Management; Business Strategy; Bids and Bidding; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 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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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

from the Negotiations That Wrested the NFL from CBS By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—A remarkable 1993 negotiation rocked the world of American football with aftershocks that have directly shaped today’s entertainment and media landscapes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

the market for post-season college football bowls. Together these will illustrate that unraveling can occur in markets with competitive prices, that it can result in substantial inefficiencies, and that marketplace institutions play a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

By: Andrew Hill and David A. Thomas
Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Effectiveness; Sports Industry; United States
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  • November 2020
  • Article

Taxation in Matching Markets

By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,... View Details
Keywords: Matching Markets; Labor Markets; Taxation; Labor; Markets
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    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)
    • 08 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics

    Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Sports
    • June 2008 (Revised July 2008)
    • Case

    The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Christopher Marquis and Brent Kazan
    Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit medical research organization. The project was founded in 1985 by Marc and his father Nick, a former Hall of Fame football player, when Marc suffered a spinal cord injury. In 2007,... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Testing and Trials; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Miami
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      Chasing Stars

      It is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed. Many firms try to buy stars by luring them away from competitors. But Boris Groysberg shows what an uncertain and disastrous practice... View Details

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      Hiring Organizations

      CesiumAstro Chaac Ventures Chandaria Foundation, The CHANEL Chelsea Football Club Cherry Cherry Ventures Chicago City Soccer Club Chicago Fire FC Choice Hotels International ChrysCapital CIM Group Cimarron Healthcare Capital Cinven Citi... View Details
      • 06 Nov 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

      flourish and thrive.” After all, people are good at faking when they are paying attention to others, consciously or not, smiling and nodding when they are really thinking about their favorite streaming show or the football game they... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 17 Mar 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

      Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
      • 29 Feb 2024
      • HBS Case

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

      despite the investments of Beckham and others, remained relatively small, dwarfed by homegrown sports like football and baseball. Beckham has committed to building US soccer as part of his legacy, the case says, and brands started... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
      • 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 Pepperidge Farm, 1937–1960 Michael C.... View Details
      • Web

      Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

      rest@studentclubs.hbs.edu Retail & Luxury Goods Club Co-Presidents Jaclyn Eagle jeagle@mba2026.hbs.edu Jordan Johnson jojohnson@mba2026.hbs.edu Victoria Gilstrap vgilstrap@mba2026.hbs.edu Website http://www.therlgc.com Club Email hbsrlgc@studentclubs.hbs.edu Rugby... View Details
      • 24 Mar 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

      University of Virginia; Ovul Sezer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Juliana Schroeder of the University of California at Berkeley; and Jane Risen of the University of Chicago. From football traditions to tea time... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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      Past Programs - Crossover Into Business

      Skylar Brandt ABT Madison Bugg Volleyball Dusan Bulut Big3, FIBA 3x3 Nicole Bunyan Squash Oren Burks NFL Brice Butler Football Caron Butler NBA Damiere Byrd NFL Havanna Cabrero Surfing Jose Calderon NBA Scott Caldwell MLS Fabrice Calmels... View Details
      • Web

      Mid-US - Global

      deep regional knowledge and strong relationships, the MRC helps HBS engage more fully with the evolving landscape of American business. Location Mid-US Research Center midus@hbs.edu News & Highlights MARCH 2025 HBR COLD CALL Football... View Details
      • 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