July 17, 2018
The July Edition

The Future of Sports

Sports technology is booming. Every direction you look, from the rise of the quantified athlete to the emergence of entirely new classifications of sports (esports and robot/machine competitions), technology is changing the way games are played. This month we explore these exciting developments and highlight the ways technology is leaving its mark — both on and off the field.

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Each edition explores a facet of the digital economy and investigates the forces transforming it.

  • 01

    Beat the Robot

    Technological advancements have made it possible to imagine sports competitions of a very different variety than those we enjoy today. With so many avenues of entertainment open to us, it begs the question: in the future of sports who will the athletes be, human — or machine?

  • 02

    The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

    When you picture a screaming, sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden, esports (AKA professional gaming) might not be the first thing to come to mind. But with a current global audience of 385 million people and annual revenues of nearly $700 million, esports has become a growing and lucrative industry that’s promising enough to have even the owner of the New England Patriots investing.

  • 03

    Dawn of Vive Reality

    With AR/VR, gaming and esports are completely transformed. For the first time ever, players have the chance to be completely immersed in a game as the hero of their own story. They aren’t just playing a game: they’re living it. Rikard Steiber (HTC VIVE/Viveport) lays out this exciting super reality we are fast approaching in this keynote from our 2018 Digital Transformation Summit.

  • 04

    Why Should Society Care About the Quantified Athlete

    Technology is rapidly transforming the entire sports industry and revolutionizing how athletes train, perform and heal. This event, co-hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab, OneTeam Collective, and the Sports Innovation Lab, provides an overview of the quantified athlete and sports technology space, from fitness tracking and predictive performance analytics to real-time analytics and athlete career management.

  • 05

    Sports Genomics

    What if you could create designer probiotics using the gut bacteria of elite athletes, and what if those probiotics could enable consumers to tap into the biological advantages that make those athletes so special? Sound like science fiction? Maybe not…

  • 06

    “Harder, better, faster, stronger”: tethered soft exosuit reduces the metabolic cost of running

    This new robotic exosuit developed by researchers at the Wyss Institute and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could push the limits of human performance and lead to new wearable technologies for athletes and consumers.

Events

Jul 15 2018

FIFA World Cup 2018

FIFA World Cup 2018
Don't miss the conclusion to this year's FIFA World Cup.

The FIFA World Cup Final held at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia on July 15 will determine the winner of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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Mar 1 2019

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
A forum to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the global sports industry.

The SSAC provides a forum for industry professionals (executives and leading researchers), students, and fans to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry. SSAC is hosted by MIT Sloan, which is dedicated to fostering growth and innovation in this arena, and the conference provides many learning opportunities.

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Influencers

  1. Anita Elberse

    Anita Elberse

    Anita is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

  2. Sascha L. Schmidt

    Sascha L. Schmidt

    Sascha is the director of the Center for Sports and Management (CSM) at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in Dusseldorf, Germany.

  3. Rikard Steiber

    Rikard Steiber

    Rikard is an angel investor and virtual reality evangelist. He currently serves as the president of Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive.

  4. Angela Ruggiero

    Angela Ruggiero

    Angela (MBA ’14) is a former professional hockey player and the Co-founder and Managing Director of the Sports Innovation Lab.

  5. Isaiah Kacyvenski

    Isaiah Kacyvenski

    Isaiah (MBA ’11) is a former NFL linebacker and the Managing Partner of Blue Star Innovation Partners. Previously, Isaiah was the Co-founder and Managing Director of the Sports Innovation Lab.

  6. Karim Lakhani

    Karim Lakhani

    Karim is Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab and the faculty co-founder of the HBS Digital Initiative.

  7. Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School.

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