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The Value of a 'Portable' Career Can you predict whether star performers will replicate their success in a new environment? A look at professional athletic teams may provide valuable lessons for star performers and hiring executives of business firms.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 14, 2007
Martha Lagace |
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team It is imperative that top performers as well as their managers take into account the quality of colleagues. |
Sports Central
August 12, 2004
William Geoghegan |
The Complex Psyche of Red Sox Nation In the world of stats and results, the 2004 Red Sox are not dramatically different from the 2003 team that got within one game of the World Series. |
BusinessWeek
March 20, 2006 |
Who Needs Johnny Damon? Despite the loss of the All-Star center fielder, the numbers favor the Boston Red Sox, according to principal owner John W. Henry. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2004
Bob Bobala |
Boston's Hottest Stock Are the Red Sox a stock on the rise, or will the Yankees do them in again? |
Sports Central
September 12, 2005
Dave Golokhov |
I Hate Mondays: Yanks/Sox Series Inevitable Are you ready to see the World Series pit the Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees again? As much as these two rivals cannot pitch, play defense, or close out games, they do present the most appealing matchup in the NLCS. |
Sports Central
September 13, 2011
Ryan Day |
Can the Rays Make the Playoffs? As baseball winds down and makes its way to the final weeks of the season, the Tampa Bay Rays are a handful of games away from a wild card berth. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Symonds, Lowry, Polek & Weber |
Breaking The Curse Can John Henry's Red Sox finally win a World Series? |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 4, 2010
Jim Heskett |
Why Do We Chase Stars? Is chasing outsider talent a fool's errand? Is general management performance portable between organizations? If not, is management truly a profession? |
Sports Central
September 3, 2012
Greg Suttich |
Blowin' it Up in Beantown The Boston Red Sox opened the 2012 season with high hopes and plans of playing in October. So what happened? |
Sports Central
November 4, 2004
Vincent Musco |
Questions For Theo Epstein The "new curse" of the Boston Red Sox may be free agency -- with 17 roster players eligible to ink new deals. How will the team's wheeling-dealing general manager deal with that? |
Sports Central
September 24, 2007
Phil Backert |
MLB Playoff Chase Down to Final Stretch The last week of the season in Major League Baseball could not be more exciting for fans as the hunt for October hits the final stretch run. |
AskMen.com
Steve Seepersaud |
5 Big Red Sox Flops The Red Sox fell apart after the All-Star break. Here is a list of some of the bigger flops in Red Sox history. |
Sports Central
August 12, 2008
Jeff Kallman |
The Curse of the Rambino? Manny Ramirez had been stripped of his Red Sox silks at last, by way of a three-way swap making a Los Angeles Dodger of him and a Red Sox out of Jason Bay. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 4, 2008
Martha Lagace |
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs Star women performers invest more in external than in in-house relationships. They also tend to do far more due diligence than men when they receive a job offer. |
Sports Central
June 13, 2007
Bob Ekstrom |
Can Pitching Really Win the AL Pennant? If the old baseball adage holds, these two teams should be locking horns in the ALCS come October, right? Maybe not. |
Sports Central
July 11, 2004
Martin Hawrysko |
Garcia's Signing Only a Start for ChiSox The general idea in Major League Baseball is, whatever or whomever the New York Yankees want, they get. Apparently, someone forgot to inform Chicago White Sox General Manager Kenny Williams of that notion. |
Sports Central
June 26, 2008
Sean Crowe |
Schilling Most Important Pitcher in Sox History If any athlete shouldn't be forgotten in any city, it's Curt Schilling in Boston. |
Sports Central
February 27, 2006
Isaac Miller |
2006 MLB Preview: American League It was an interesting offseason in the American League. Yet some burning questions still remain. |
Sports Central
December 26, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Yanks Look Like AL East Champs It's impossible to tell what the regular starting lineup for the Yankees is going to be come March, but you can be confident that it will look like an all-star team. |
AskMen.com
April 6, 2013
Brett Smiley |
Baseball Fans The dawn of baseball every April tends to shower fans of every team with a clean slate and hope, when in reality, the writing is on the wall: a large chunk of the league is hopeless. |
Sports Central
October 6, 2005
Diane M. Grassi |
MLB Season-Ending Races Live Up to Hype Some say that the same teams in 2005 that succeeded to reach the postseason in Major League Baseball in 2004 are old-hat. But this year, unlike past seasons, the road to success was nothing but routine for several of these perennial winners. |
Sports Central
October 12, 2004
Piet Van Leer |
It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year. |
Sports Central
October 30, 2004
Greg Wyshynski |
Waking Up From the Impossible Dream Where do the Boston Red Sox go from here? |
Sports Central
October 8, 2009
Sean Crowe |
It's Groundhog Day For Angels If the Angels don't beat the Red Sox this year, they'll never beat the Red Sox. |
Sports Central
October 22, 2011
Bob Ekstrom |
Sox One Rally Beer Short of a Six-Pack Boston has been the Mecca of baseball conscience throughout the postseason, as off-field hijinks on Yawkey Way have made the Red Sox an October equivalent of the on-field train wreck they were in September. You just can't take your eyes off them, and no one is. |
AskMen.com
Troy St. Louis |
The Price Of An MLB All-Star Team For the past few seasons there has been a growing concern that small market teams cannot compete in professional baseball today. Examining the cost of rising salaries for players you may conclude that they have a point. Or do they? |
Inc.
August 2004
Alison Stein Wellner |
The Perils of Hiring Stars New research shows that so-called star performers rarely do well when they leave one company for another. What's more, their mere presence can actually hurt their new employers |
Sports Central
October 7, 2011
Jeff Kallman |
Francona Leaves the Ship His Crew Sank Was it God's will that Terry Francona, arguably the most successful manager in Boston Red Sox history, should end the season not with a sixth trip to the postseason in eight seasons on the bridge, but with a walk away from the ship his own crew sank and a fall on his own sword? |
Sports Central
June 23, 2011
Matt Thomas |
MLB Trade Deadline: The Buyers Like no other sport, baseball's annual midseason trade deadline is typically a frenzied, interest-worthy phenomenon. |
Sports Central
March 10, 2005
Tyson Wirth |
Baseball's Great Secret There was a time when baseball was a game of constants, a game you could rely on. The rules of the game were simple and universal: the Red Sox were cursed, Babe Ruth was without equal, and good pitching was superior to good hitting. |
Sports Central
January 26, 2011
Jess Coleman |
Vernon Wells? Really, Angels? The Angels should focus on winning back their seat atop the American League West. Vernon Wells was is not the answer. |
Sports Illustrated
July 5, 2000
Frank Deford |
Back to 2000 -- and reality -- in Boston Oh, Y2K looked so much like ours. And then the season started, and whaddya know, whatever the millennium, it turned out to be just another Boston baseball season, like any other. |
Fast Company
May 2010
D. Heath & C. Heath |
Does Top-Notch Employee Talent Transfer to Other Jobs? You should grow your next generation of talent, not recruit it. |
Sports Central
February 16, 2006
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
Major League Baseball 2006 Preview NL East: 1. New York Mets... 2. Atlanta Braves... NL Central: 1. St. Louis Cardinals... 2. Milwaukee Brewers... |
Sports Central
June 12, 2004
David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central
June 17, 2011
Andrew Jones |
How to Realign Major League Baseball Rumors have been floating around about the potential for MLB to realign into a system with two 15-team leagues and no divisions. |
Salon.com
September 17, 2002
King Kaufman |
The Angels-A's race is a dud Thanks to baseball's boneheaded wild-card system, we once again have two great teams playing meaningless games in September. |
Sports Central
October 1, 2004
M. Edward Guest |
Pedro and Boston: One Last October? The distinguished hurler for the Boston Red Sox has posted 16-9 record with a 3.90 ERA, for a team that recently clinched a spot in the postseason. Yet, Martinez is a frustrated man, witnessing the worst season of his career. |
Sports Central
May 19, 2009
Matt Thomas |
Fact vs. Fiction: MLB at the Quarter Pole Ultimate success or failure is measured not by short-term excellence, but rather by sustained consistency. |
Sports Central
March 15, 2011
Matt Thomas |
"Facing" the Facts in MLB For 2011 Taking a look through the plastic surgeon's post-operative eye in identifying successes in failures by MLB teams in working towards a serviceable product in 2011. |
Sports Central
July 14, 2005
Derek Daggett |
MLB Second-Half Predictions Armed with 80+ games of knowledge, here is how the remainder of the 2005 Major League Baseball season should break down, division by glorious division. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2002
Allen Barra |
Strength in numbers A conversation with Bill James, the famed statistical baseball analyst just hired by the Red Sox. |
Sports Central
September 2, 2010
Corrie Trouw |
The Bottom Line of Bottoming Out The willingest spenders like the Yankees and Red Sox receive mixed messages from their sports: Try to win as much as you can, but you better not use all of your resources to do it. |
Salon.com
October 19, 2002
King Kaufman |
Cinderella, Goliath and other Series myths With the Giants and Angels set to meet in the Fall Classic, it's time for Fox TV and other pundits to manufacture drama. |
Sports Central
January 18, 2006
Eric Maus |
Don't Count Out Red Sox Just Yet The Red Sox have the potential to be very good, possibly even great this year. |
Sports Central
May 3, 2008
Sean Crowe |
How the Yankees Became the Red Sox The formerly loveable loser Boston Red Sox have become the new Evil Empire. |
Sports Central
November 1, 2006
Kiarash Banisadre |
2006 MLB Offseason: First Look A look at what is happening with players and personnel in MLB's offseason. |
AskMen.com
Paul Bessire |
Top 10: World Series Teams As the 2007 MLB season comes to an end, WhatIfSports.com ranks all 102 previous World Seres winners to find the true top 10 greatest World Series teams in the history of baseball. |
Sports Central
August 9, 2004
Hank Waddles |
Dodgers Aiming For Playoff Success Thanks to the new GM's guidance, Dodger fans can look forward to watching their team win games in October for the first time in 16 years. And this time, it won't take a miracle. |
