Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

St. Louis’s Gateway Arch

Sadly, the Gateway Arch is showing signs of corroding.

The Arch is one of my favorite monuments, standing on the western bank of the Mississippi, symbolizing and inviting one to embark upon the great trek to new territory. St. Louis was part of the Louisiana Purchase; Lewis and Clark geared up for their expedition on the east side of the river at Camp Dubois; and St. Louis was a key port for steamboat traffic in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Here is a picture of the Arch I took last year when in St. Louis to interview sports entrepreneur David Checketts for Kaizen.

Kaizen issue 9 published

The latest issue of Kaizen features my interview with sports entrepreneur David Checketts. Checketts is former CEO of New York’s Madison Square Garden and is now chairman of SCP Worldwide, which owns the NHL’s St. Louis Blues and Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake.

Kaizen also features a course-development project by Rockford College Professor Bill Lewis, a paper given by Professor Shawn Klein at a sports ethics conference, and an international conference organized and hosted by Professor J. J. Asongu.

A PDF version of Kaizen is available at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship’s Kaizen site, and the full interview with Mr. Checketts will be posted there soon.

If you would like to receive a complimentary issue of the print version of Kaizen, please email your name and postal address to CEE [at] Rockford.edu.

Sports and business: Kaizen interviews

The Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship has published its first-ever summer issue of Kaizen. This issue features an interview I conducted with Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the basketball’s Chicago Bulls and baseball’s Chicago White Sox. That issue also includes a short feature on Professor Shawn Klein, a philosopher and sports ethicist here at Rockford College.

Kaizen also recently published my extended interview with Ed Snider, CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, owner of hockey’s Philadelphia Flyers and basketball’s Philadelphia 76ers, and all-around great guy.

If you are interested in sports ethics and entrepreneurship, keep an eye out for my interview with David Checketts, CEO of SCP Worldwide, owner of hockey’s St. Louis Blues and soccer’s Real Salt Lake. Checketts is also the former CEO of the Madison Square Garden, which owns the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, and the New York Liberty of the WNBA. That interview is forthcoming in the October 2009 issue of Kaizen.