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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
in-country executives. For country-specific products (such as baseball shoes in the United States), Adidas prefers using in-country designers rather than design teams working out of corporate headquarters. "It's a European style of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
the enthusiasm of a baseball fan at an All-Star game. "Qualified women run the gamut," she says. "I can tell you about a 37-year-old rocket scientist who is going to join a board. She is one of the most poised, mature people I've ever... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
listening and using just three words: tell me more. Listen, ask questions, and you might learn how a regular person could come to feel the way they do. Listen to a person who has a large gun collection and learn that it’s the same to them as someone else’s precious... View Details
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field of research: the value created and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mohit Bathija
bedridden)—dodging cars, rickshaws, and cows through the crowded streets. I looked ahead to the woman handing out the food and saw a foreign boy of my age wearing white basketball shoes and a red baseball cap witha "C" on... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
The following article is the eighth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. Whether it involves getting striking baseball players back on the field, cutting a deal with a foreign supplier, or... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs Gibbons, a tall, affable Indiana... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
some big companies do? What does the future hold for the project? WK: Across the six topics, we need to develop greater depth and explore how these domains integrate with each other. I’d say, in baseball terms, that we’re at the end of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
to a baseball team. At Harvard Business School, we teach via the case study method, and we do so in specially designed classrooms with semicircular, multilevel seating, where every student’s name is on a placard; this allows every... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
type of investment? A: Yes, it may be true that Boston (or any other city) benefits by keeping its football team or baseball team. But, another city without a team also would benefit from taking away Boston's team. And, as a result,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
When managers need help leading through turbulent times, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggests taking wisdom from the sayings of that expert on confusion, Yogi Berra. "When you come to a fork in the road," Kanter quotes the former... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
culture. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510091-PDF-ENG Major League Baseball Advanced Media: America's Pastime Goes Digital Anita Elberse and Brett LaffelHarvard Business School Case 510-092 In January 2010, Bob... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 4/5
still not fully free. The first time I talked about race outside of my home was at Lanier Middle School. My class watched a documentary on the June 1998 murder of James Byrd, a 49-year-old Black man who was beaten with a baseball bat,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
email continually, like, “Hey, my buddy would like to try writing comics.” It’s like saying you played baseball as a kid, so you want to try out for the Mets or the Yankees. It’s very difficult and highly competitive. And you do not get... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
marketing team, she was introduced to Debora Lehrer (MBA 2012), then a second-year HBS student on spring break. Lehrer had spent more than four years prior to HBS with the international division at Major League Baseball and while at HBS... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
control over brands is explicitly ceded to the public for marketing purposes. As I write this, the Binghamton, New York minor league professional baseball team is thought to be on its way to being named the Stud Muffins in a poll of fans.... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
management. "I have two six-year-olds. The Red Sox have acquired them as lifelong customers, with very little expense on the team's part. And for the next 80-plus years, they'll be Red Sox fans without the chance of another Major League View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
far. Boston Red Sox baseball player David Ortiz took a selfie with President Obama, which seemed playful at first until it was later revealed that he had done so on behalf of Samsung cameras. Some fans are not amused when the "soft edge... View Details
- Web
1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA
merchandise, services, and vacations, with the following exception: company logo merchandise (e.g., t-shirts, baseball caps, pens) valued at $25 or less may be accepted as a gift if offered by the company. Under no circumstances may... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
rapidly going global. Recent partnerships include acquisitions or joint ventures in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia, and the United States. Mikitani, the father of two young children, is often seen as representing the new Japan; he dresses... View Details