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- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
advertisers. Nor are they the World Cup—the quadrennial single-sport, multi-week championship of professional soccer that commands vast attention in much of the world, but limited interest in the United States. Rather, the Olympics both...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
all-consuming. He makes time for family and outside pursuits. As his three children grew, he coached his daughters’ soccer teams and attended his son’s recitals. And he is deeply committed to a number of philanthropic causes. Klarman...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
rivalries. "Argentines and Brazilians don't get along that well," he said, "especially when soccer is the issue. So we decided not to market our beer as a Brazilian beer but as a beer for the youth—a beer connected to...
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by Julie Jette
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt Disney Studios, and watched...
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
models and policies are incomplete without taking into account the bargaining process and, in particular, the way in which this process interacts with underlying control structures in the household. Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
one,” says Iansiti, who describes himself as more of a soccer person. “The more I got into it, the more I read about it, it became more and more interesting and more and more fascinating, so it kind of drew me in.” Iansiti read the Wells...
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- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Fútbol By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—Markets for soccer players are winner-take-all markets in which a select few top players earn extremely high rewards. The search for effective talent strategies in these conditions has led clubs to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Review article with legendary soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson, on his team management and leadership lessons. (It was so well received that it deserves a sequel!) But I am mostly very hard at work on the release of Blockbusters—it's my...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
devotees, while drivers of the Cayenne (which came to be known as 'the SUV for soccer moms') tended to be safety-conscious, family-oriented, and conservative. Evolving debates on forums allow a class to debate whether the brand had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
playing soccer and basketball. Sort of the mental damage that you have to suffer from that is—and I can only speak on his behalf, not for him, from his perspective—must be huge. I know it was huge for my family, and for him it must be all...
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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
When TV Nova launched in 1992 as the first new television channel in post-communist Czechoslovakia, few might have imagined the joint-venture drama unfolding behind the scenes. Distinguished for bringing Baywatch, soccer matches, and sexy...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it was the week after the...
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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
there's a meta job, almost, that arises in children's lives. And that is, they need to feel successful. Every day, they need to feel successful. And in order to feel that they've been successful, we can't, just as parents, do everything for them. We can't travel them...
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- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
soccer is something he would mock." Another familiar part of the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt's upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
for soccer fans, FirstRowSports. The NFL’s as-yet-unnamed foray into online streaming will test the waters with an October 25 game only available online. The cable and telecom industry has taken note, evidenced by its heavy lobbying...
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HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
dad or single mom who’s got to pick up their kid from soccer practice on Friday afternoon. If all of a sudden being part of the Cloudflare team requires you to come out drinking with us, they’re not going to think that that’s a very...
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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
level, they do so at the club level. You've probably heard of Arsenal, the big football team, the soccer team. Well, they come from the social clubs. And just as it is with soccer, in almost every small town to large city, there's one or...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
backseat of his father’s 1969 red Camaro convertible while Levitt zigzagged the car through the streets of Belmont. “That was part of who he was and his hardscrabble life growing up,” notes Levitt. “The idea of kids wearing helmets to play View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
start by having you tell us a little bit about yourself and what led you to co-found Veeva?Wallach: Sure. So I grew up outside of Philadelphia and was basically a soccer player. And I was recruited to play in college and played at a...
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