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- The Great American Business Model
- The great national pastime isn't just a game ? it?s a hugely successful, $6 billion business that any company can learn a few tricks from. It?s tough to be a serious major league baseball fan these days without having at least a decent grasp of what the great American pastime...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- The Revenue Model: Why Baseball Is Booming
- Baseball has found increasingly inventive ways to ramp up revenue — from actually reducing the number of seats in stadiums to selling streaming video of baseball games online — hitting record highs for five consecutive years. ...
- Articles 2008-07-11
- MLB's Labor and R&D Formula
- MLB's basic labor structure, in place for more than 30 years now, keeps players from charging the full amount their skills would draw on the open market for at least six years, allowing savvy teams to get young talent on the cheap. ...
- Articles 2008-07-11
- MLB's Revenue-Sharing Formula
- MLB's revenue-sharing program prevents large-market teams, like the Yankees and Red Sox, from dominating the league every year. Here's how the program affects revenues, payroll, and the competitive balance of baseball. Identifying the Imbalance In 1999, a “blue ribbon” panel...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- The Great American Business Model
- The great national pastime isn't just a game — it's a hugely successful, $6 billion business that any company can learn a few tricks from. It's tough to be a serious major league baseball fan these days without having at least a decent grasp of what the great American pastime...
- Articles 2008-07-14
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- Baseball, The Great American Business Model: The Genesis
- Forget the notion of baseball as America’s Pastime — it’s also one of America’s savviest businesses. From its origins amid scandal to its modern-day experiments in online media and revenue sharing, here’s how the business of Major League Baseball evolved. Organizational Structure After the 1919...
- Articles 2008-07-14
- Baseball Inc.: The Genesis
- Forget the notion of baseball as America's Pastime — it's also one of America's savviest businesses. From its origins amid scandal to its modern-day experiments in online media and revenue sharing, here's how the business of Major League Baseball evolved. Organizational Structure After the 1919...
- Articles 2008-07-11
- The Business of Baseball
- Going to a baseball game is no longer just about watching the field — it's about the ballpark "experience." SF Giants Chief Operating Officer Larry Baer says that stadium sales at AT&T Park account for up to 65 percent of overall team revenue. Baer shares his insights on the ever-changing,...
- Videos 2008-05-07
- MLB.TV: An Online Subscription Model That Works
- Whether you agree with it or not, one thing that's always been impressive about Major League Baseball is its almost authoritarian control of its content and brand. While other content providers have given the store away, MLB has actually made it difficult to consume its content except through official channels...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?
- For those of you that are regular readers, you may know thatin addition to this blog, I also co-author http://www.smallbusinesshub.comwith Brian Halligan.Brian has a very thought-provoking article on SBH titled “SecretsOf Success: What Baseball Can Teach You About Your Businessâ€. It’swell worth the read. If you only...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?
- For those of you that are regular readers, you may know that in addition to this blog, I also co-author http://www.smallbusinesshub.com with Brian Halligan. Brian has a very thought-provoking article on SBH titled "Secrets Of Success: What Baseball Can Teach You About Your Business." It’s well worth the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Famous Faces Entertainment Talent and Model Agency to Help Select Cheerleaders for Midway Sports National Cheerleader Tryouts
- Entertainment Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 27, 2003 Top Talent Scout to Help Select Next Cheerleaders to Appear in Midway Sports Adrenaline-Style Baseball Videogame, MLBTM SLUGFESTR, and Receive Offers for Modeling Contracts Midway SportsTM, the sports brand of leading software industry publisher and developer Midway...
- Research articles 2003-02-27
- Quova Geo-Locates Web Visitors Without Tracking Behavior
- A recent national survey indicated that, by a large majority, Americans strongly object to behavioral targeting online. Which was good news for Quova, a company that provides geo-location data about IP addresses. Unlike behavioral targeting, which includes monitoring which web sites you've visited and even some of...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Fliqz CEO Discusses State of Online Video Industry
- When a fellow named Adam Wilbur won Major League Baseball's promotional contest celebrating the 100th anniversary of the song, "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," last year, he got to lead the crowd at the All Star Game in Yankee Stadium in the singing ritual that occurs in...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- The Ethics of Baseball
- How can you condemn cheating in a game where the players are expected to "steal" bases? David Jacobson has done a remarkable job in researching and writing this week's business of baseball feature package, talking about salaries, the revenue sharing model and the MLB's legally sanctioned monopoly...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- If Apple Buys Twitter, Will It Set Up a Twitter Account?
- This Apple-buying-Twitter rumor is so delicious that it deserves a little virtual ink, even if, I suspect, it really isn't the best Twitter could do â€" and I'm not talking about the price. Other suitors, such as Microsoft, or Google, or Facebook, might be willing to pony...
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Creativity and the Role of the Leader
- In today's innovation-driven economy, understanding how to generate great ideas is an urgent managerial priority. And that calls for major doses of creativity. But many leaders assume creativity is too elusive and intangible to be managed....
- Articles 2009-01-06
- Aradiant gets the message as its focus evolves
- At Aradiant Corp. in Kearny Mesa, workers still send wireless messages, but they're also selling baseball tickets, taking reservations and doing other customer support functions as the company formerly called National Dispatch Center shifts its business model. With the increased use of cell phones and the rise of Internet...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- "Moneyball Marketing" Explained
- Michael Lewis challenged baseball's conventional wisdom with his 2003 bestseller, "Moneyball." If you're not familiar with the book, it follows the Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane, as he builds a winning team with a substantially lower budget than his competitors by casting aside traditional stats like RBI and batting...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- The Umpire Strikes Back
- Well, well... My recent post about sales process appears to have offended some of the old guard, specifically David Kurlan, author of "Baseline Selling: How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know About the Game of Baseball". He left a comment on...
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
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