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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Harvard Business Review Blog: Business Model Innovation the Red Sox Way

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posted on December 22, 2011 at 06:39 AM by Lowry Seasoning Salt to business, history, products, red sox, special topics | 6 comment(s)

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. The Mohole* of David Wells (* - Piehole)

posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:05 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

some kind of joke? here's the direct link to the video, but it doesn't work either:

http://a2.video3.blip.tv/0110001144712/Pbrinnel-Moneyball851.mov

2. Mike Webber posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:06 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I can't seem to get the movie to play... anyone else?

3. The Mohole* of David Wells (* - Piehole)

posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:07 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

http://www.blip.tv/file/2539642/

that works.

4. The Mohole* of David Wells (* - Piehole)

posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

not that great. the way the intro was written, i thought woody allen shot the ####### thing. not quite.

5. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:11 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Brad Pitt looks really different!

6. Petunia inquires about ponies posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:45 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

That was pretty bad. Clearly not baseball fans. Half the players' names were pronounced wrong, and all the GMs on the phone sounded like aging New York Jews. Including Omar Minaya.

7. Crispix Attacks 2: Swag Airlines posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:47 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Omar Minaya isn't Jewish?

8. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:50 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

That was pretty bad.

Yea, I really like baseball, I really like trade deadline talk, and I turned that off after about five minutes because it was completely boring.

9. Shibal posted on September 01, 2009 at 03:55 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I thought it was pretty good if you think it is supposed to be overly dramatic. Like that hot chick eating the hamburger in the Burger King commercial.

10. Harmon "Thread Killer" Microbrew posted on September 01, 2009 at 04:08 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Just so I'm clear on this, Beane is the cocky one with his tie undone and foot on the desk, right? Wait, that must mean that the dorky guy with glasses and the laptop glued to his legs is DePodesta?

I'm only now processing the nuances . .

11. Don Malcolm

posted on September 01, 2009 at 04:30 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Don't strain yourself, Harmon!

Nice use of some obscure Monkees music--I always liked Diane Hildebrand's songs, thought she should've had a bigger career (check out her lone solo LP from 1969, you can find it out there in Downloadland). But that's the extent of the good choices by the director here.

The "sequel" in 2009 would be more pertinent to the value of the ideas presented in Lewis's brilliantly oversold scam. Now that we are at last in the "post-neo-sabermetric" age, this is nothing but dis/misplaced nostalghia.

12. Tricky Dick posted on September 01, 2009 at 06:36 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Actually, I kind of liked it. Maybe not the first time I watched it, but the second time, yes. When you consider that this is an amateur production, which will have some production and acting issues (like No. 6 pointed out), it's not bad. Now maybe a non-baseball fan would find that scene totally boring. But perhaps if you have Brad Pitt and Hollywood production, that wouldn't be the case.

13. The Mighty Quintana posted on September 01, 2009 at 10:37 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Omar isn't, but Ruben Amaro Jr is! Who knew?

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