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Just Do It

Disciplines:
journalism
business history

Summary

Donald Katz's 1994 insider account of Nike at the height of its 1990s cultural dominance — covering the Air Jordan peak, the Michael Jordan relationship, and the internal culture of a company that had become a global phenomenon.

Core Contribution

Captures Nike at the peak of its cultural power in the early 1990s — the Air Jordan era — providing the contemporary reporting that Shoe Dog's retrospective memoir could not, showing how Nike's employees experienced being inside the culture as it became dominant.

Historical Influences

Donald Katz

Intellectual Lineage

Sports Business Journalism Brand Culture Journalism

Allied Works

Swoosh Shoe Dog

Contemporaries & Peers

Swoosh Shoe Dog

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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