Applied Sport Management Skills Hardcover - 2013

Robert N. Lussier, PhD, is a professor of management at the birthplace of basketball, Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where more than one-third of the students compete in 27 intercollegiate athletic teams. He has taught undergraduate and graduate sport management students for more than 15 years. He has also supervised sport internships and serves as an advisor for sport management research projects.

Lussier has authored more than 385 publications, including texts in management, leadership, and human relations. He was an intercollegiate athlete and has coached at the college, high school, and youth levels. He works out daily and enjoys spending time with his wife and six children.

David C. Kimball, PhD, is a professor of management and director of the sport management program at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts. He teaches sport management and sport marketing courses and coaches and supervises Maccabi athletes each summer. He has an expansive network of friends and acquaintances in the sport management field; many of the case studies in this book arose from these relationships.

He loves being personally involved in sports and runs 30 miles a week while participating in Les Mills training. He also enjoys watching sports on television almost as much as at the arena, ballpark, or stadium.