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A New Era – Outdated Amateurism and the NCAA (Part 1)

With an increasingly globalised world, the commercial potential of collegiate sport has exponentially grown. However, the NCAA’s “amateurism” business model is being increasingly attacked. Summer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong explains that the more that basketball players choose to forego the NCAA, the more that the quality of NCAA talent and therefore, its appeal to fans, will decrease. Many aspiring professional athletes want to be able to support their families earlier, and alternate pathways to circumvent the NCAA, like the NBA G-League’s “Professional Player Pathway,” are becoming increasingly popular.

Rising with Refugees: A Conversation with Patricia Letayf, Cofounder of Five One Labs

Summer Journalism Fellow Charlotte Ehlers speaks with Patricia Letayf, co-founder and Director of Operations at Five One Labs, a startup incubator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that has incubated five cohorts of startups since its inception in 2017. Letayf describes how Five One Labs combines her interests in Middle Eastern politics, business, and economic development and how it also uses entrepreneurship to enable diverse groups of young people in Kurdistan to rebuild their community.

Firm vs Predator: Getting The Most Out of Shareholder Activism

Louis Noirault explores shareholder activism and complications at play.

Amazon Books: A Closer Look at a New Development in Amazon’s Business Model

Amazon's business model, through methods like Amazon Books, is a push towards advancing Prime membership amongst consumers.