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- 27 Aug 2013
- News
The Global Dominance of ESPN
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
Drone Racing League Signs ESPN Deal
property and sport and building the global audience for it.” The article notes that Horbaczewski’s background in film and media has helped him build a made-for-TV experience. But the ESPN deal, he says, turned on the strength of the... View Details
- March 2017 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company
By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing to snap selfies with enthusiastic children in Mickey Mouse ears. Bob Iger, newly appointed CEO of The Walt Disney Company,... View Details
Keywords: Franchise Management; Brand Management; Culture Change; Business Units; Acquisition Strategy; Technological Change; Disney; ESPN; Cord-cutting; Bob Iger; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Integration; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Collis, David, and Ashley Hartman. "Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company." Harvard Business School Case 717-483, March 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
- 24 Feb 2015
- Video
Rock 100 NYC: The Roundtables
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
Duane Varan, MediaScience and Murdoch University
- May 2017
- Case
Street League Skateboarding
By: Robert F. Higgins and Christine Snively
In 2013, Street League Skateboarding, a professional skateboarding league founded in 2010, just concluded its annual Street League World Tour. The growing action-sports property had purchased time on ESPN2 to air its events, and though ESPN was the most-watched sports... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Television Entertainment; Sports; Product Launch; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Higgins, Robert F., and Christine Snively. "Street League Skateboarding." Harvard Business School Case 817-145, May 2017.
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
Working PapersThe Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high uncertainty. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
built a case around this whole thing. So as I said, we were early to the game and live streaming. We got live baseball games streamed online, and then we sort of realized hey, this is hard to do and other people want to do this, too. And so we started offering that... View Details
- Profile
Melcolm Ruffin
through his high school education, he came across an article in ESPN Magazine about sports management that listed specialty undergraduate programs. Melcolm conducted his "own research and due diligence," selecting the University... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 25 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?
New York Yankee slugger Aaron Judge, would surpass the $10.7 billion it reported in 2019—the last full season before pandemic interruptions. The league also signed new TV contracts with ESPN and TBS before this season, and next year will... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a Friday night fight every week of the year. The challenges posed by that sort of expansion are not lost on Cui, a Canadian native and former ESPN executive whose successes include selling the X Games to Chinese officials who had never... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
the ESPN galaxy. Likewise with many other behind-the-scenes stories. Since the book was to be a comprehensive history of one of the greatest media successes of all time, it required a thorough examination of the business story behind it.... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- News
The Next Play
against type post-HBS as a contributor at ESPN and cohost of its new weekly radio show The Morning Roast. “I didn’t want to be the ex-jock sportscaster guy,” he told the Baltimore Sun in a recent article that details his stints as... View Details
- Web
The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship
NeueHouse in Madison Square Park for customized discussions, a reception and dinner featuring a fireside chat between Professor Bill Sahlman and Brian Bedol founder of Bedrocket Media Ventures, Bluefin Labs, CBS College Sports Network, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
issues affecting the American experience,” says Clinkscales, who also worked as SVP of content development at ESPN before being tapped for his current post: CEO of Revolt TV. Launched in October 2013 by rapper, producer, and entrepreneur... 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 subsidiary View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters
directly to consumers—and we saw companies like HBO and CBS introduce OTT services in 2014 and 2015, but adoption was slower than expected. Other companies were hesitant to follow until this year when Disney announced it will launch its own View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
(MBA 1995) Local newspapers need to rethink what they are. Gone are the days of newspaper bundles where you cover all kinds of topics—some of which are now covered better in other places, whether it’s sports on ESPN or national and... View Details