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Sports Illustrated July 11, 2001 Brian Cazeneuve |
Vote for Me! The IOC is set to choose a host for 2008 and a new president... |
Sports Illustrated July 13, 2001 Brian Cazeneuve |
China scores decisive victory The IOC decided to award the 2008 Olympics to Beijing, a controversial move that carries a strong statement... |
Sports Illustrated April 11, 2001 Frank Deford |
Gold medal diplomacy U.S.-China feud has ramifications of Olympic proportion... |
Sports Illustrated July 17, 2001 Brian Cazeneuve |
IOC needs Pound to stay aboard Now that Jacques Rogge is in office as the International Olympic Committee's new president, his first job must be to encourage his vanquished Canadian foe, Dick Pound, to remain in the role he played for Juan Antonio Samaranch... |
Sports Illustrated April 17, 2001 Gene Menez |
Five-Ring Circus The spy-plane incident has thrown into high relief areas of conflict between China and the U.S., not the least of which is Beijing's bid for the 2008 Summer Games... |
Salon.com July 18, 2001 Allen Barra |
The IOC's China problem No matter how clean his record is, even the newly elected president of the world's most corrupt sports organization is suspect within its sordid structure. A look at the International Olympic Committee and it's refusal to stand up to China. |
Sports Illustrated August 16, 2001 Frank Deford |
Taking a Pounding IOC presidential election exemplifies the worst in politics... |
Sports Illustrated October 16, 2001 Brian Cazeneuve |
The Doctor Is In Before his election as IOC president, Jacques Rogge pledged candor on any Olympic-related topic, and in a meeting with SI last week, he spelled out his positions on some of those issues... |
Sports Illustrated November 3, 2002 Brian Cazeneuve |
The fun has just begun New York's road to 2012 Games is still a long, long one |
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 |
An Olympic-Size Mistake? An interview with critic Brian Hatch, who argues that New York City's strategy in bidding for the 2012 Games is a colossal error. |
AskMen.com August 20, 2003 Mark Simmons |
The Olympic Games: Profit Or Curse? Long after the Olympic torch is extinguished and the medals sit in trophy cases, the success of the Olympic Games is measured not by attendance, participants or viewers, but rather, in terms of how positively the Games impacted the host city. |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 |
Fallout From The Olympics Decision Embattled French President Jacques Chirac will be further weakened by the rejection of Paris' bid for the 2012 Olympic games. |
Sports Illustrated August 16, 2000 Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
Sports Illustrated June 20, 2001 Frank Deford |
Delay of Games Is Athens prepared to host the 2004 Olympics? |
Sports Illustrated January 29, 2002 Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 |
A Bold Move By Paris And China? The French aerospace and defense industries see China as a potentially lucrative market. But sales of French missiles and other defense products would raise concerns in Washington, which still restricts technology sales to China. |
Finance & Development March 2010 Andrew Zimbalist |
Is It Worth It? Hosting the Olympic Games and other mega sporting events is an honor many countries aspire to -- but why? |
InternetNews February 15, 2008 |
Blogs Get Official Go-ahead For Beijing The International Olympic Committee on Friday gave the green light to allow blogging at the Olympics for the first time, issuing guidelines for this August's Beijing Games. |
Outside August 2008 |
The Guide: Beijing Olympics 2008 The 15 things you must know about this year's Olympics in Beijing. |
Sports Illustrated May 5, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 6, 2006 James Aisner |
Winners and Losers at the Olympics Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen Greyser has been studying, teaching, and writing about the business of sports for over 30 years. Here, he discusses his perspectives on the the marketing aspects of the recent Turin Games. |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2008 Graham & Lomax |
China's Epic Olympic Opportunity Will China's glory fade after the Olympics? Not a chance. |
BusinessWeek July 2, 2007 Burt Helm |
An Olympic PR Challenge Activists upset by Beijing are turning up the heat on sponsors of the 2008 Olympic games. |
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Ewing & Carlisle |
A Big Fat Greek Triumph The Games' success should help Greece's economic and cultural standing soar. |
Sports Central February 17, 2006 Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
Inc. April 2007 Max Chafkin |
Gold-Medal Marketing For companies looking to profit from the Beijing Olympics, the race is on. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 5, 2014 Michael Blanding |
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold? With billions of dollars on the line at this year's troubled Winter Olympics, Stephen Greyser breaks down what's at stake for the brands of NBC, key corporate sponsors, Russia -- and Vladimir Putin. |
Finance & Development March 2010 Rose & Spiegel |
The Olympic Trade Effect Countries that bid for the Olympics are sending a signal that they are ready to open up trade. |
Sports Illustrated July 11, 2001 Frank Deford |
Small change Olympic Games rarely change politics of host nation... |
CFO October 1, 2007 Wu Chen |
View from China: What Price Glory? The Beijing Summer Olympics will undoubtedly be a success -- but at what cost? |
Sports Central August 8, 2012 Diane M. Grassi |
Shocker: Unsportsmanslike Conduct at Olympics The entire world is watching, and given the attention that the global media has recently dedicated to unethical behavior of certain Olympic athletes, sports fans could mistake it for a newly introduced Olympic sport of its own during these 2012 London Summer Games. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 1, 2008 John Quelch |
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics The Olympic Games are normally a marketer's dream. Not so much this year, given widespread protests against the Chinese government. Here are the branding challenges posed by this year's games in Beijing. |
Fast Company February 2010 Anne C. Lee |
The Vancouver Olympics by the Numbers Let the Games Begin! More than 80 nations and 5,500 athletes and officials will participate in this year's Winter Games. |
Salon.com February 11, 2002 Gary Kamiya |
Red, white and wrong NBC's jingoistic provincialism is missing what the Olympics are all about -- but the Games will prevail... |
AskMen.com Will Brody |
Top 10: Former Olympic Sports There have been many sports that have been dropped over the years. Let's take a look at some of the Olympic sports of yesteryear. |
Sports Illustrated April 28, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Cuban diver sees stars and stripes Will Ramirez make it to the Olympics?... Some thoughts about the difficulties Athens is having as it prepares for the 2004 Olympics... The Sydney organizers are planning to send an Olympic torch into orbit on the shuttle Atlantis... |
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2004 Gary Price |
An Olympic Selection of Search Resources The 2004 Summer Olympics are underway in Athens and the web is home to plenty of information that makes watching the games even more interesting. |
Global Services August 25, 2008 Imrana Khan |
An ITO Project Well Done Seventeen days of Beijing Olympics are backed by four years of planning and technology integration. Atos has been the prime IT outsourcing contractor for Olympic Games' since 2002. |
Sports Illustrated September 13, 2000 Frank Deford |
A culture of 'sus' So overwhelming is the perception that drugs sustain most Olympic athletes, that it really doesn't matter how much the well is poisoned. Almost every record and every winner is sus. Sus, a shortened version of the word "suspicious," is, so far as I know, only used in Olympic circles. |
Fast Company September 1, 2007 Cora Daniels |
Fast Talk: GE's $500 Million Springboard Profile on: Dan Henson, who manages GE's sponsorship of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, overseeing approximately 150 different projects, from preparing power systems for the Games to lighting the Water Cube, the Olympic swimming center. |
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Dexter Roberts |
Why China Is Speaking Softly Beijing is finding that subtle diplomacy works better than the old saber-rattling |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Rachel Tiplady |
The 2012 Olympics: Paris Takes The Lead The five cities in the race to host the 2012 Games are pulling out all the stops to show the International Olympic Committee that they can put on a flawless performance. The French capital's secret weapon is its trim budget. |
Sports Central August 27, 2004 Eric Poole |
An Immodest Proposal It seems we can't get through an Olympics without having some sort of controversy over judging. That's because gymnastics are fundamentally flawed. |
Fast Company June 2008 Lucas Conley |
Audiobrain Meets NBC: Creating Music for the Beijing Olympics How Audrey Arbeeny and Michael Sweet are using sound to help NBC orchestrate its Olympic coverage into narrative storytelling. |
CFO June 15, 2012 Edward Teach |
Let the Games Begin The 2012 Summer Olympic Games start next month in London, and Neil Wood is counting on their success. An interview with Neil Wood, CFO, London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. |
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Brian Hindo |
Not So Fast, Mr. Mayor Is a new stadium critical to New York's Olympics bid? Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Daniel L. Doctoroff call it crucial to landing the Olympics. |
Sports Illustrated September 26, 2000 John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
Sports Illustrated May 30, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympic Sports Triathlete Hunter Kemper... Cyclist Nicole Freedman... Juan Antonio Samaranch, etc. |
AskMen.com Ryan Faller |
5 New Ways To Watch The Olympics Here are five new ways to watch the Olympics; they're innovative and sure to enhance your viewing of the 21st Winter Olympics. |
Outside June 2008 Marc Peruzzi |
Let the Games Begin Without Us Want to let China know how you feel about its behavior? Change the channel and boycott the Olympics. |