Thursday, December 22, 2011
Harvard Business Review Blog: Business Model Innovation the Red Sox Way
(blogs.hbr.org)
posted on December 22, 2011 at 06:39 AM by Lowry Seasoning Salt to business, history, products, red sox, special topics
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Read More...Major league owners are famously reluctant to release franchise-specific financial information. However, Forbes estimates that the value of the Red Sox has climbed from about $500 million in 2002 to $900 million in 2011 — an impressive 7% annual growth.
Companies seeking to revitalize seemingly stagnant businesses can take three lessons from the Red Sox success:
1. Question orthodoxy. Of course you can’t put people on top of the Green Monster. Or host a hockey game in Fenway. Or can you?
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1. Keith Law posted on October 04, 2007 at 10:18 PM # hit 0 | hit 0You call it "simple and elegant", I call it "lazy". Potato, Potahto.
Could you imagine the commercial he could make for the product, though?
Hi. I'm Carl Yastrzemski. I won the Triple Crown leading the Boston Red Sox to the American League pennant in 1967. But really, look at this schnozz. Ladies, would you want to procreate with me, and risk passing on this honker to your otherwise beautiful daughter? Of course not! Now, look across the room at that schlub you married. He's no picnic either, ladies. He may not have a promontory of a nose like mine, but he probably lost all his hair before he was 28, right? Or he's the lazy-ass SOB your mother warned you about before you married him? Am I right? So what are you going to do -- pass on those genes to the next generation??
No. So I have the perfect solution for you: the Yaz! birth control pill -- it's the Triple Crown in pregnancy prevention! It is more effective than any other pill out there. It comes in bright Red Sox red. And, has fewer side effects than any other pill. So take it from me, Carl Yastrzemski. If you have some genes that are on a five-generation losing streak, and need to stop like the Curse of the Bambino, call your doctor today, and ask him or her about the Yaz! solution . . . and tell them Yaz! sent you!
Wouldn't yeast infection from Yaz Bread do the same thing?
You're thinking of the Fisk method.
When a Swedish woman does it, is it the Lutefisk method?
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