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From A Global Business Perspective, Does NBA Win As Team USA Loses?

September 13, 2019 by Joe Favorito

An interesting question came up in our class at Columbia on Thursday, which has a great mix of students from around the globe in it. If you are working in the communications and marketing offices at the NBA in New York and China and you are following the FIBA World Cup and seeing the U.S. …

How Laurene Jobs’ Ownership Stake Can Be A Monumental Move For Sports and Society…

October 4, 2017 by eastwin5

On Tuesday came the news that Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist, entrepreneur and president of the Emerson Collective, was buying a significant stake in Monumental Sports & Entertainment, the $2.5 billion business that includes the NBA Washington Wizards, NHL Capitals, WNBA Mystics, two AFL teams and Capital One Arena among other pieces. The investment, once …