General Management
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- January 9, 2025
- Article
How to Build a Life: You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.
By: Arthur C. Brooks- January 9, 2025
- Article
How to Build a Life: You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.
By: Arthur C. Brooks -
- January 2025
- Case
Food for Thought: Exiting Russia? (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Lena DucheneIn September 2022, the French food companies Bonduelle and Danone each grappled with the difficult decision of whether to exit Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February. Both companies were deeply embedded in Russia’s agricultural supply chains and local economies, employing thousands and playing a key role in regional food security. At the start of the war, each company had decided to continue operations in Russia, however they were now facing mounting pressure to exit the market, especially after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s declaration that “peace is more important than income” reverberated globally, leading to heightened scrutiny and intensifying pressure from European governments, consumers, and shareholders. Public sentiment began to view companies continuing operations in Russia as in some ways supporting the war effort. A rapid exit would mean abandoning decades of investments and risking the potential seizure of assets by the Russian government.
- January 2025
- Case
Food for Thought: Exiting Russia? (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Lena DucheneIn September 2022, the French food companies Bonduelle and Danone each grappled with the difficult decision of whether to exit Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in February. Both companies were deeply embedded in Russia’s agricultural supply chains and local economies, employing thousands and playing a key role in regional food security. At...
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- January 2025
- Case
Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors
By: Lynn S. PaineIn 2020, just two years after its IPO, information technology company SolarWinds discovered that it was the victim of an attack on its information systems by Russian hackers. The incident, known as the Sunburst attack, was costly for the company, and certain shareholders subsequently filed a derivative suit against the SolarWinds board of directors for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duty of oversight. The plaintiff shareholders charged that the directors had failed to adequately oversee cybersecurity risk and sought to hold the directors personally liable for the damage to the company resulting from the Sunburst attack. The case consists of an excerpt from the Delaware Chancery Court’s 2022 opinion describing the facts of the case.
- January 2025
- Case
Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors
By: Lynn S. PaineIn 2020, just two years after its IPO, information technology company SolarWinds discovered that it was the victim of an attack on its information systems by Russian hackers. The incident, known as the Sunburst attack, was costly for the company, and certain shareholders subsequently filed a derivative suit against the SolarWinds board of...
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
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Young Minister Confronts the Challenges of Montgomery (B)
- January 2025 |
- Supplement |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: You’re Going to Die. That’s a Good Thing.
- January 9, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Food for Thought: Exiting Russia? (B)
- January 2025 |
- Supplement |
- Faculty Research
Food for Thought: Exiting Russia? (A)
- January 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors
- January 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Managing the Demise of Tip Credit
- January 2025 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: Why an Early Start Is the ‘Quintessence of Life’
- January 2, 2025 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
How to Build a Life: The Big Thing to Know About Pain
- December 26, 2024 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
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