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SPORTS PUBLICITY, MARKETING & BRAND BUILDING IN A NEW AGE: WITH JOE FAVORITO
I love the tangible and the visual to help me fully understand and grasp an idea. Yes, I can best understand what’s on a mobile device, but the way I digest, and reread and re-watch news and best practices is to touch go back over and fully digest the best content I can find. Maybe …
I have always loved CBS Sunday Mornings. Rare is the week that goes by when I don’t learn something about someone and something. I also really enjoy the features that run tied to sports, from the youth level to the professional and everything in between. Even if I feel I know the story, I always …
It’s been a week since we were roaming the halls of The Hynes Convention Center, where we again came away with more from the MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference than what we gave. Some key takeaways from the rooms and the halls not just from the weekend, but for what to watch going forward. You …
You walk through the massive NFL Experience in New Orleans and you see all the requisite fun activations and brands partnerships…and then as you head towards the NFL Store, everything ends in a gift shop right, there you have Pickleball…and cornhole. What a jump cornhole has made from tailgating to the main stage, and the …
A while ago an MSG executive named Bill Jemas wanted to test a theory he had. If you priced the second row at a Knicks game more than the first, what would people buy first? The answer when it was tested was clear…people gravitated to the highest price with the idea that the best cost …
“Are You Willing to Cross The Street?” That question came not from a leadership seminar but from our friend and colleague Ray Negron, who has worked for the Yankees for over 50 years and always brings a different point of view to our students at Columbia. The rhetorical question came not from him, but from his longtime …
“Walk the balance between humility and confidence.” There were so many tidbits of wisdom that applied to every one of the over five hundred attendees at the Columbia University Sports Management Conference in Lerner Hall on October tenth, but that quote from Unrivaled Basketball Commissioner Micky Lawler in the opening panel on emerging sports helped …
We are always looking for tangible ways to convey curiosity and anecdotal learning, especially given how time challenged we are. Maybe it’s a little easier for older people…let’s say 40 and older…but for those we encounter in classrooms from seventh grade through grad school, the challenge of cutting through distractions, bombardment of messages, visual stimuli, …
As we start the third quarter of 2024, some good listens for the beach, the lake or the drive. We hope you find them informative, fun and worthwhile and you can hear all our podcasts updated each week here. The biggest ‘Ally’ in Women’s Sports. We welcomed program alum Stephanie Marciano, Head of Sports and …
It’s so rare that a stunt takes off with intentionality these days, but you have to give a giant high five to Major League Eating, Joey Chestnut, Kobayshi, Nathan’s, Impossible Foods and everyone else who executed this week’s sling of announcements, from endorsements, to “bans” to special events in just three days, garnering worldwide coverage …
