General Management

- January 2021
- Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)

By: George A Riedel

Dick's Sproting Goods were one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and speficially following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading firearms retailer and the inconsistent patchwork of laws, often times right after a tragic shooting.
- January 2021
- Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)

By: George A Riedel

Dick's Sproting Goods were one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and speficially following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading firearms retailer and the inconsistent patchwork of laws, often times right after a...
- January 14, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There

By: Arthur C. Brooks
- January 14, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There

By: Arthur C. Brooks
- January 2021
- Case
Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim

Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an increasingly competitive landscape, its goal was to democratize trust and become an “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) for software engineering talent. With their windfall investment and the advent of COVID, Andela had to figure out their “2.0 model” to permit scaling. How would Andela stack up in a growing landscape of global remote talent companies? Could Andela become not just Africa’s, but the world’s AWS for trusted software engineering talent?
- January 2021
- Case
Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim

Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an increasingly competitive landscape, its goal was to democratize trust and become an...

About the Unit

The General Management Unit is concerned with the leadership and management of the enterprise as a whole. This concern encompasses:

the personal values and qualities of effective general managers and enterprise leaders;
the philosophies, values, and strategies that inform successful enterprises; and
the relation of enterprise to the broader community and other external constituencies.

The Unit's work is conceived and carried out principally in four interest groups, each of which has its own leadership, research agenda, and teaching programs:

Management Policy and Process
Management Information Systems
Society and Enterprise
Leadership, Values, and Corporate Responsibility

Recent Publications

Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany

By: Geoffrey Jones and Grace Ballor

January 2021 |
Teaching Plan |
Faculty Research

Citation

Purchase

Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)

By: George A Riedel

January 2021 |
Case |
Faculty Research

Dick's Sproting Goods were one of the top five retailers of a range of firearms in the US. Over the last several years and speficially following the Parkland shooting of 2018, Ed Stack the CEO and chairman, had wrestled with the question of their role as a leading firearms retailer and the inconsistent patchwork of laws, often times right after a tragic shooting.

Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Sporting Goods; Sport; Human Behavior; United States; Violence; Decision Making; Sports Industry

Citation

Educators

Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of The Gun Business (B)

By: George A Riedel

January 2021 |
Case |
Faculty Research

Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Sporting Goods

Citation

Educators

How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There

By: Arthur C. Brooks

January 14, 2021 |
Article |
The Atlantic

Citation

Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim

January 2021 |
Case |
Faculty Research

Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an increasingly competitive landscape, its goal was to democratize trust and become an “Amazon Web Services” (AWS) for software engineering talent. With their windfall investment and the advent of COVID, Andela had to figure out their “2.0 model” to permit scaling. How would Andela stack up in a growing landscape of global remote talent companies? Could Andela become not just Africa’s, but the world’s AWS for trusted software engineering talent?

Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Africa

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Educators