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Message: [QUOTE="husky8273, post: 2489991, member: 639"] "The NBA has teamed up with Harvard Business School to create a program that seeks to keep athletes away from losing their fortunes. It wants to educate the players on refusing to get involved in unsubstantiated investment opportunities and spending money on risky ventures often in the realm of the restaurant industry. The program is called [I]Harvard Business School and the NBA: Crossover into Business[/I], which is a semester-long platform launched this Fall that offers ten active and recently active players a chance to develop their business skills with the assistance of MBA student-mentors." Designed to help professional athletes be better prepared for business activities during and after their active sports careers, this program matches each athlete with a pair of student mentors so athletes can learn business fundamentals in a customized and flexible way. After a kick-off day on campus (in which the athletes attend an MBA class, participate in a case discussion, and choose their student mentors), the athletes remotely work with their mentors throughout the semester on a set of cases and any other topics of interest, and deliver a final presentation at the end of the semester. A [URL='https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/in-novel-program-nba-players-and-harvard-m-b-a-students-work-together-to-build-business-acumen/']pilot program[/URL] – launched in the fall of 2017 in partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) – involved ten active and recently active NBA players as well as twenty second-year MBA students and one student coordinator. The plan is for future editions of the program to also include athletes in other sports. [IMG]https://harvardgazette.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/nbarosterrevised.jpg?w=605&h=442[/IMG] Images courtesy of the National Basketball Association [URL="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/11/in-novel-program-nba-players-and-harvard-m-b-a-students-work-together-to-build-business-acumen/"]NBA players and Harvard M.B.A. students work together to build business acumen[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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