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Conference Goals

To create a forum for discussing the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry. The conference will bring together sports industry professionals (executives and leading researchers) with students interested in the changing dynamics of the sports industry.   This will be a unique educational opportunity and will provide exclusive occasions for learning, interacting, and networking.

About MIT Sloan and  MIT Sloan's Entertainment, Media and Sports Club

In 2004, MIT Sloan initiated one of the first MBA programs with a sports analytics business class.  MIT Sloan is dedicated to fostering growth in the sports arena and the inaugural Sports Business Conference will further enrich opportunities for learning and understanding the unique sports business world.

The EMS club was formed in 2001 as a student-run club to fulfill the growing interest at the MBA program in the business of entertainment, media, and sports. The mission of the club is to help MIT Sloan students learn about the industries and extend the MIT Sloan brand as a lead business school in the entertainment, media and sports world. The club sponsors speakers, plans conferences, locates job opportunities, provides networking opportunities and career advising, and coordinates trips to top companies in the industry. Go to http://sloanems.org for more information.

  Wyc Grousbeck
  Owner and
  Chief Executive
  Officer for the Boston Celtics.

Bill James
Senior Baseball Operations Advisor for the Boston Red Sox and famed author of Bill James Baseball Abstracts

  Defending the Title
  Moderated by
  ESPN's Peter
  Gammons, this
  panel features key executives from championship teams in the NFL, MLB, the NHL, and the NBA.

Tom Davenport
Professor at Babson College and author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning