Together with HighTechXL and Sports & Technology, SportBizz piloted a special sports & vitality track in the startup program of hardware accelerator HighTechXL. A group of 5 promising sport and vitality start-ups made it to the program after a severe selection. John van de Laar of SportBizz supported the teams along their way through the […]
From July 8-22 our first cohort of MBA students enjoyed their Specialization Program. The program kicked off in Amsterdam during the 3×3 European Championship Basketball. The location was chosen with a reason. The Dutch Basketball Association (NBB), host of the European Championship 3×3, had invited our students to really live basketball for a weekend in […]
PALES aims to provide a comprehensive health-monitoring wearable device and insightful health analytics service for the equestrian market. PALES wearable devices for horses are non-intrusive and provides essential features such as: Adverse event monitoring Activity recognition and quantification Exercise logging Health parameter tracking The PALES wearable device is complemented by a smartphone app that provides […]
Orange Sports Forum (OSF) conducted a market research in cooperation with Learning Solutions, on the role of e-learning and blended learning at Dutch sports federations. OSF and Learning Solutions concluded that there are numerous opportunities to implement e-learning and blended learning at sports federations. Therefore the involved companies decided to go on with the next […]
Picture left to right: John van de Laar (SportBizz / Orange Sports Forum), Ed Kronenburg (Ambassador of the Netherlands in France), Benjamin Carlier (Founder of Sports Incubator Le Tremplin), Hans Bluyssen (DSM) and Geert Ruigrok (Topsport Limburg). In the prelude of the Dutch Royal visit and Economic Mission to France starting tomorrow March 10, SportBizz had the pleasure to sign a cooperation agreement with Europe’s […]
Last week the newly started Executive MBA group enjoyed their first work visits to KPMG in Amstelveen and to the Amsterdam ArenA. These work visits had been aligned with the Finance courses the group was following during the first module of the Executive MBA program. Mr. Hans Peter van der Horst, senior partner of KPMG […]
The impressive achievements of the Dutch Equestrian team at the recent Equestrian European Championships in Aachen demonstrated the importance of education, innovation and cooperation to be successful in sports. Understanding the importance of these three elements in sports and the sports industry, MSM and Sportbizz developed the Executive MBA in Sports Management. The Orange squad scored […]
A sensational project to evaluate and train dressage judges will be presented at the 15th edition of the Global Dressage Forum 26-27 October. Maarten van der Heijden, Sports Director of the Dutch National Federation, and his colleagues will present a project, started in 2014 with scientist David Stickland to improve judging. Every point on a […]
Last Wednesday I had the pleasure to visit the World Championship Beach Volleyball in Amsterdam as guest of Topsport Amsterdam. I do compliment the organizer TIG and the Dutch Volleyball Federation NEVOBO. They established a great event. And the cities will recover their investments in a great manner. The chosen locations and the large number […]
Executive MBA in Sports Management ambassador and soccer icon Hans van Breukelen was one of the lecturers during the official launch of this new management study at the Maastricht School of Management. Referring to the famous quote of Nelson Mandela: ‘Sport has the power to change the world’, Van Breukelen emphasized how much he believes […]