Researching Nike for MBA paper - any employees or connected willing to be interviewed?
Hi MGoBoard,
I'm working with my team on a researching Nike for MBA paper - any employees willing to be interviewed? Given the close ties (remade) between the University and Nike, I'm suspecting that a few Nike connections (either direct with the company, within the University, or perhaps even suppliers or competitors) may exist on the board. I'm looking for a few contacts to speak on any of the following (whatever you're connected with, would be great.
Stragegy
· Strategic Positioning (including Activities and Competitive Advantage)
· Competitive Analysis (including five forces, competitive strategy)
· Corporate Strategy/Scope
Organization
· Employee Management: Performance, Rewards, Appraisals
· HR: Employee Recruitment and Selection
· Collaboration (internal cross-function and external partnerships)
· "Organizational Culture (historical and today)"
· Organizational Processes
Global
· Globalization Strategy (Why, Where, How)
· Non-Market Stakeholders
Can be credited or anonymous as you see fit. Paper will NOT be published, only for purposes of class requirements
A little about myself: Michigan, Mech Eng '98 (MMB)
Wharton MBA candidate ('18)
please contact me at [email protected] or [email protected]
I'll work around your schedule! Thank you in advance!
Go Blue!
Critical thinking - that is all I have to offer.
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Actually I wouldn't be that surprised.
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Rephrased: Any Nike employees want to get fired?
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but you could always look on LinkedIn? I'm pretty sure you can look specifically at Nike employees, filter them out by if they went to UofM, and contact them from there. From personal experience, that can be a great way to find Michigan connections in various companies.
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"milk was a bad choice" - gets punched by Harbaugh
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Wow. Someone is pretty desparate to get a peek at the new gear.
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All I can say about the MBA is, LeBron James isn't Michael Jordan.
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"Mikee" from Nike?
He's usually found on MGoBoard posting under one of several usernames and avatars, but the one he most frequently uses
is: 
But I am busy researching how many other colors and textures are out there that the University of Oregon football team can incoporate into their uniforms. I simply do not have the time for anything else right now.
Sincerely,
Paul Knight
Phil. Paul. I fail at names.
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There's a sweatshop joke to be made here somewhere.
Waiting for WD to chime in......
He's probably got a Nike Super Guide he's currently working on.
but once i hit 13 i was too old for the sweatshop and was let go
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chemical solvents came in.
Ah beat me to the sweatshop joke. Good on you.
please give me a shout at either [email protected] or [email protected] Many thanks!
As far as the paper not being published, that's most likely correct, but even if you have no intention of publishing the paper, that's no guarantee that one of your team members or, more likely, professor won't take the information that is gathered and use it as part of a published paper or book chapter at some point.
I know a few 8 year old Vietnamese kids that would love to tell you about their days inside Nike. You just have to fly them over here and legally adopt them first.
Entire books have been written about some of those topics.
There are entire HBR articles about different aspects of Nike as well.
Lastly, I don't know what MBA class this assignment is from but I'd be very hesitant to use a source that didn't first get cleared through Nike's public relations team.
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Truly appreciated.
And yes, we have the 10-k, 10-q, analyst reports, case studies, HBR articles, GSB articles, several academic papers, and other published sources. The goal was to combine those sources with orignial research from a vareity of individuals to fill in gaps, validate information, and understand how directions may have changed in the past years or even months.
Thank you again.