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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
head — incurred from Pop Warner through the NFL — have rocked the sport. (One telling statistic: NFL veterans can expect much shorter lives than the male population at large.) Many other contact sports — boxing, ice hockey, soccer,... View Details
- 07 Jan 2020
- News
Models of Success
education and support they needed to use sports as a lever to change their lives,” Feickert says. That revelation led her to cofound Trey Athletes, a social enterprise that creates cohorts of high-potential high school athletes and... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
Checking in with One Championship
“successful” on paper but not in his heart. After realizing his real passion was for martial arts, Sityodtong launched Evolve MMA, a mixed martial arts gym with three branches in Singapore. Out of that enterprise came One Championship, a View Details
- 21 Oct 2021
- News
DraftKings Backs New VC Firm
advisors that includes former Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein and Olympic hockey gold medalist Hilary Knight. The article also tracked the rise in sports startups in the Boston area more generally, highlighting both Will... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Part Ownership of a Dream
way to participate in the once-exclusive sport of racing. That model also applies to Flightline, purchased for $1 million by a West Point consortium; by the time he won the Breeders’ Cup, that ownership had extended to four other... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. The acquisition was viewed with amazement by those unfamiliar with the young and rapidly growing sector. But a year later esports achieved a milestone traditional US sports fans could understand.... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
Drone Racing League Signs ESPN Deal
(Sports Illustrated) (Sports Illustrated) Sports Illustrated recently profiled Nicholas Horbaczewski (MBA 2008), founder of the Drone Racing League—which just signed a ten-episode deal with ESPN. Drone racing works the way you might... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014)
strong enough to make the cut. My dad said, “Look, you can choose to give up. Or the next time, you can be the best player so there’s no way they can cut you.” After that I had focus, determination, and something to prove. Less than 5 percent of View Details
- 27 Oct 2022
- News
John Middleton’s Big Swing
think it’s your passion as a fan that kind of fuels your ambition. It certainly fuels my ambition for this team.” A Philadelphia native and longtime sports fan, he told the Press of Atlantic City that he watched the Phillies beat the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
The Next Big Swing
MLB Advanced Media’s new Statcast system provides measures for every play, arming analysts like Tippett with a wealth of new data. (Courtesy of MLB.com) Tom Tippett’s love of sports data began at age seven, when his mom bought him a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Research Brief: Ahead of the Game
sample of graduates from 1970 to 2021, Gompers and four coauthors found that those who had participated in varsity intercollegiate sports differed from their peers in several specific ways: They were more likely to pursue careers in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
guests. “I am inspired and empowered by your philanthropy, and I am determined to offer a strong return on your investment,” she said, citing her future goal of launching a nonprofit arts and sports center in the Brooklyn neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
$250,000 seed-funding round. Cofounder and consultant Jen Rottenberg (MBA 1996) estimates that the high-school athletics market alone is worth $2 billion in annual transactions. And the market hasn’t proved overly competitive: Other companies that work in the local... View Details
- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Game-Changing Analytics
As CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), Jessica Gelman (AB 1997, MBA 2002) is working “to change the conversation around how data analytics are used in the sports and entertainment business.” Spun off from its Kraft View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
Mariner Photo courtesy Jonathan Mariner “There aren’t many activities that bring a community together so quickly — without respect to age, race, and gender lines — as a winning ball club,” observes Jonathan D. Mariner, the veteran sports... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
There was a very specific moment when the crisis underway in the sports industry became clear to Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014). It was August 4, 2015, when Disney CEO Bob Iger announced in the company’s quarterly earnings call that its... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
sport where women’s teams were still a novelty, was in keeping with an attitude that has since served Gelman well as a game-changing executive in the male-dominated sports industry. “I’ve always been drawn... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
Fan Experience “New mixed reality integrations, sports betting, and gamified experiences are changing the way that fans are consuming sports. We are already seeing this with immersive media, particularly in the interactivity that is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
right to outfit and sponsor individual teams? Sophisticated sports marketing outfits, often subsidiaries of the top marketing services firms, conduct detailed assessments to help companies like Nike and Samsung determine what value to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Scrum-Thing Special
A long-standing ritual was upheld on a crisp October afternoon when the HBS Rugby Football Club took to the pitch against the “Old Boys” alumni team. Jim Johnstone and Morris McInnes (both MBA ’65) first organized the sport on campus;... View Details