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General Management

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    • 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
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Jones, Geoffrey, and Grace Ballor. "Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 821-066, January 2021.

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
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Riedel, George A. "Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 321-024, January 2021.

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
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Riedel, George A. "Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of The Gun Business (B)." Harvard Business School Case 321-025, January 2021.

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

By: Arthur C. Brooks
  • January 14, 2021 |
  • Article |
  • The Atlantic
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Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There." The Atlantic (January 14, 2021).

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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Elkins, Caroline M., Tarun Khanna, and Joyce J. Kim. "Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent ." Harvard Business School Case 321-113, January 2021.

Note on the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Bailey McAfee
  • January 2021 |
  • Background Note |
  • Faculty Research
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Kerr, William R., Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, and Bailey McAfee. "Note on the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Background Note 821-063, January 2021.

Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)

By: Amar Bhide, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
  • January 2021 |
  • Technical Note |
  • Faculty Research
Citation
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Bhide, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Fabio Villa. "Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 321-062, January 2021.

Thomas Keller Restaurant Group: Leadership Through a Pandemic

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Michael S. Kaufman
  • January 2021 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
Citation
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Goldberg, Lena G., and Michael S. Kaufman. "Thomas Keller Restaurant Group: Leadership Through a Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-112, January 2021.
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    • 15 Jan 2021
    • STAT

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    Re: Regina Herzlinger
    • 12 Jan 2021
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    Your Next Boss May Be More Of A Coach Than A Dictator

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HBS Working Knowledge

    • 24 Nov 2020

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    Re: Regina E. Herzlinger
    • 17 Nov 2020

    Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

    Re: Joseph B. Fuller
    • 16 Nov 2020

    Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

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Harvard Business Publishing

    • February 9, 2015
    • Article

    Uber Needs Our Permission to Grow

    By: Derek C. M. van Bever
    • December 2020
    • Case

    Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Containing a Fearsome Pandemic | Note on the Development of Prozac (through 1999)

    By: Amar Bhide, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
    • 2013
    • Book

    The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
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