This might be of interest to sports business-minded MBA folks here...
I saw a story about SDSU's sports MBA program (one of the best of this niche in the nation,) they had a quick trip to the Dominican Republic to study MLB operations there.
Obviously there's a lot going on in the country in this respect (Sammy Sosa is literally the tip of the DR baseball iceberg,) so MLB of course has lots of infrastructure there, and it's a pretty ripe place for sports business minded people...
Interestingly enough though, from what I've heard of the trip, the focus was on socio-economic sustainability! It turns out the idea of being a baseball player in the DR is sort of the equivalent of becoming a rockstar in the States - even moreso, because there's not a lot of opportunities for young kids there. So of course they skip school, do everything they can in order to become a big star.
I don't think that the SDSU group came to any definitive conclusions about how to solve this aspect, but I find it interesting that that's what they chose to address.
SDSU MLB study
Posted Jul 03, 2010 02:30
This might be of interest to sports business-minded MBA folks here...
I saw a story about SDSU's sports MBA program (one of the best of this niche in the nation,) they had a quick trip to the Dominican Republic to study MLB operations there.
Obviously there's a lot going on in the country in this respect (Sammy Sosa is literally the tip of the DR baseball iceberg,) so MLB of course has lots of infrastructure there, and it's a pretty ripe place for sports business minded people...
Interestingly enough though, from what I've heard of the trip, the focus was on socio-economic sustainability! It turns out the idea of being a baseball player in the DR is sort of the equivalent of becoming a rockstar in the States - even moreso, because there's not a lot of opportunities for young kids there. So of course they skip school, do everything they can in order to become a big star.
I don't think that the SDSU group came to any definitive conclusions about how to solve this aspect, but I find it interesting that that's what they chose to address.
I saw a story about SDSU's sports MBA program (one of the best of this niche in the nation,) they had a quick trip to the Dominican Republic to study MLB operations there.
Obviously there's a lot going on in the country in this respect (Sammy Sosa is literally the tip of the DR baseball iceberg,) so MLB of course has lots of infrastructure there, and it's a pretty ripe place for sports business minded people...
Interestingly enough though, from what I've heard of the trip, the focus was on socio-economic sustainability! It turns out the idea of being a baseball player in the DR is sort of the equivalent of becoming a rockstar in the States - even moreso, because there's not a lot of opportunities for young kids there. So of course they skip school, do everything they can in order to become a big star.
I don't think that the SDSU group came to any definitive conclusions about how to solve this aspect, but I find it interesting that that's what they chose to address.
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