An evening with David Hollander
Monday, March 9, 2026 | 5–7 p.m.
Alumni and Friends Center
Join us for a keynote and conversation exploring how basketball offers a powerful lens for understanding leadership, community and the future.
Event Overview
What if basketball is more than a game?
In this engaging keynote and conversation, NYU professor David Hollander explores how the principles of basketball — teamwork, trust, movement and shared responsibility — offer powerful lessons for leadership, community and solving complex challenges.
Drawing from his acclaimed book How Basketball Can Save the World, Hollander shows how the structure of the game can help us think differently about collaboration, innovation and building a stronger future.
About
David Hollander
No one in the world talks about basketball like NYU Professor David Hollander.
An award-winning educator, he is the first person to formally treat the game itself as a value system, a philosophy, a set of articulated principles that can help guide us to figure out, grow, solve and create in the 21st Century.
In his wildly popular class and book, he tells the story of How Basketball Can Save the World. With basketball, he has already impacted global institutions: the United Nations, the Vatican and higher education, with new projects pushing into healthcare and sustainability.
Who Should Attend
This event is open to anyone (students, faculty, staff, and community members) interested in:
Leadership and innovation
Community building and teamwork
Ethics and systems thinking
The intersection of sports and society
Admission is free. No registration required.