Harvard Business
JUNE 16, 2023
With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.
Harvard Business
JUNE 2, 2016
Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. Although there is nothing wrong with commitment and perseverance, I, however, think sport (much less war) is often an unhelpful analogy.
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On the Brink
JANUARY 12, 2022
Recently on January 6, 2022, the NY Times published an article honoring the recently deceased Christine Grant, the University of Iowa’s first women’s athletic director and a pioneer who helped shape the 1972 Title IX legislation, tirelessly advocating for the fair treatment of women in sports. And yet, we’re so far from where we need to be.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 3, 2017
The buzz around the biggest game in America’s biggest sport is, as always, about more than football. Even as high-minded a publication as The Economist gets caught up every so often in the connections between sports and business. Here’s what’s wrong with making analogies between sports and business.
Markovitz Consulting
AUGUST 7, 2019
As Sports Illustrated reports , that’s precisely what Ellis did: vowing to unlock more creativity in the attack, Ellis launched a period of experimentation (with formations and new players) that proved an old adage: Real change can be an ugly and uncomfortable process long before it becomes glorious. After all, look at the lousy results.
Harvard Business
APRIL 7, 2016
If any story demonstrates how far employers will go in today’s fierce war for talent, the tale of Snapchat’s geofilter recruiting campaign is it. These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are.
Harvard Business
MAY 19, 2016
Although people stated that training was more important than talent, their ratings showed that they preferred the natural over the striver. The only difference was whether participants were led to believe that the entrepreneur’s background consisted of innate talent or hard work.
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