Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Kaizen interviewee Ed Snider elected Hockey Hall of Fame

Edward Snider is CEO of Comcast-Spectacor, a company that owns the Philadelphia Flyers and Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia where the teams play, and several other sports-related businesses. For his many accomplishments in his hockey career, Snider was elected to the US Hockey Hall of Fame this month.

My Kaizen interview with Snider covers much of his entrepreneurial career and tells a great story of success. In the interview, Snider also talks about the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, which uses “hockey to help educate underserved young people on how to succeed on the game of life. Training Camp volunteers through after school tutoring sessions and special career day events.”

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.