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...rivals drooling. "It wouldn't surprise me if one of the things that may have caught the eye of the U.S. sports is the massive increase in value of overseas rights deals," says Alex Byars, a senior manager in the sports business group at Deloitte, the business advisory firm. Under a new international broadcast rights agreement, Byars says, the Premiership will earn an average of nearly $430 million each of the next three years, nearly double the annual amount it pulled in under a previous agreement...
...Since 2003, Ogilvy PR, an international firm which also works for Disney and Slim-Fast, has been paid by the government to hold fake press conferences and broadcast live to a Virtual News Network (VNN), a closed-circuit satellite TV network modeled after CNN. Only people involved in the exercise can watch VNN or access its web site. The real media are only allowed to watch from afar...
...school's Board of Regents, seems intent on limiting his influence. "He is the founder. He is a great icon," Pearsons told The Daily Oklahoman. "But the bottom line is, any decision is going to come down to the board." The school has hired a Washington, D.C., law firm to run an independent investigation and an audit. It suggested that the professors' case could be solved by mediation, but the ex-teachers' lawyer has so far refused to engage...
...should be for profit or not for profit,” she said in her speech. “In short, I think there’s room for both.” Michael Chu, a senior lecturer of business administration at HBS and former president of microlending firm Accion International, was also a guest and welcomed the crowd to a night of “microfinance and Natalie Portman.” Doug Henry, who is in his second year at HBS and is one of the vice presidents of international development and microfinance for the Social Enterprise Club...
...Speaking in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Cox said such corporations and wealth funds are growing relative to their private counterparts. He added that foreign governments pose the greatest risk, citing government-controlled firms in which private investors hold a minority stake. “When the government becomes both referee and player,” he said, “the game changes rather dramatically for all participants.” Sovereign wealth funds allow states to invest their savings in private markets...