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Germany’s football top flight, the Bundesliga, has put innovation at the very heart of its media activities. Alongside with the strategic decision to control most of its value chain, this has created a competitive advantage amongst other sport leagues.
"… all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.” (George Box) Athletic departments at schools with under-enrollment have been caught in a bad-model trap, where the NCAA's accounting conventions lead them to make harmful economic decisions in the false belief they are cutting costs. Andy Schwarz (PCL, OSKR) works through why the accounting gets the economics so wrong, provides detailed examples from schools that have made mistaken cuts in 2020, and outlines a solution to avoid these errors going forward.
We bring together leaders from the FanDuel, Washington Football Team, and ESPN to sit down and discuss the difficult decisions they made when faced with the new normal, and how they were able to lead their companies through these challenging times using available data available to guide decision making.
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