General Management
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- January 2021
- Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)
By: George A RiedelDick'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 RiedelDick'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...
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- 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
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- January 2021
- Case
Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. KimFive 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. KimFive 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
- January 2021 |
- Teaching Plan |
- Faculty Research
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out Of The Gun Business (A)
- January 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Dick’s Sporting Goods: Getting Out of The Gun Business (B)
- January 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
How to Build a Life: Find the Place You Love. Then Move There
- January 14, 2021 |
- Article |
- The Atlantic
Andela: Africa’s AWS for Talent
- January 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Note on the Future of Work
- January 2021 |
- Background Note |
- Faculty Research
Tales of Life-changing Innovations: Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses | Note on the Development of Coronary Bypass Arterial Grafting (CABG) (through 2000)
- January 2021 |
- Technical Note |
- Faculty Research
Thomas Keller Restaurant Group: Leadership Through a Pandemic
- January 2021 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Harvard Business Publishing
Seminars & Conferences
There are no upcoming events.