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- February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success
By: Henry McGee, Annelena Lobb and David Muoser
Jessica Johnson-Cope, CEO of Johnson Security Bureau (JSB), pondered options for scaling the firm. JSB was the oldest Black-owned security firm in New York, and among the oldest Black-owned security firms in the United States. It provided mostly unarmed security guards...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Gender;
Race;
Cybersecurity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
New York (state, US)
McGee, Henry, Annelena Lobb, and David Muoser. "Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success." Harvard Business School Case 824-040, February 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
meanwhile, were seven times less likely to experience a ransomware attack than the industry average. The company’s advantage, claim cofounders Rotem Iram (MBA 2013) and Roman Itskovich (MBA 2012), is a combination of cybersecurity savvy...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
for enterprise-sized businesses, where multiple teams (of 50 to 1,000 people) are collaborating on a single program to build hardware. Companies fitting that description tend to be in aerospace and defense, Wen says, so Stell focused on View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
doubt that it could radically transform sectors ranging from energy to finance and cybersecurity to transportation, but the potential is still mostly theoretical as scientists can’t quite grok all the implications yet. And a number of...
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- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
to have had as much resonance among readers as it did among CEOs who made it a summer reading favorite. Perhaps others agreed with Mary L, who commented that, “Today’s tech enabled networks pose no greater threat than any other networks in days gone by.” What’s new?...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown...
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Deborah Blagg
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic that “has blown disparities in race and income wide open” created momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
awareness of cybersecurity issues. Combined with the ability to block ads, the growing costs of acquiring customers online, the experience of “Zoombombing,” and controls on consumer data by EU regulators and others, it’s unclear how much...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Island. You can’t go into a medical office in the state without meeting a CCRI graduate who’s your nurse, your ultrasound tech, or your dental hygienist. And there’s a demand for still more IT support analysts, cybersecurity...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
some point someone’s going to figure that out and close that market. Flint: You continue to offer a free service: What is the value of that at this point in the company. Zatlyn: Cybersecurity actually comes back to data. For us we have 16...
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- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
teams (in some areas). The case centers on questions of how to adapt this successful model to new demands in a different service domain, specifically, cybersecurity and defense-related areas. The case also explores how the company is...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the hidden workforce—this is life changing to people. We’ve got almost 12,000 who’ve graduated from the program who have actually really changed their lives in getting into bigger jobs—going from an hourly cashier to being a cybersecurity...
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- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
continue to grow, as well as increased information technology spending for cybersecurity and infrastructure upgrades. The School’s total capital budget for fiscal 2020 is $38 million, flat with fiscal 2019. Creating two new HBX Live...
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
a member. JH: Drawing on the expertise of business leaders across multiple industries, from finance to technology to manufacturing, BENS acts as a partner, offering concrete strategies for issues ranging from cybersecurity to talent...
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- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
unlikely achievement of sorts. After all, Rapid7 was a venture-backed, corporate client-focused cybersecurity company, and Metasploit was a white-hat hacker community with a reputation that ranged from esoteric to “notorious.” And...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
clear by now that we have a skills gap in the nation. Let’s talk about the United States, but I think it’s true also globally for the workforce. We have 600,000 cybersecurity jobs that are currently unfilled because employers don’t find...
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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
(PAM) space, a cybersecurity subsegment it had essentially created to secure organizations’ IT systems and sensitive data. Over 17 years, the Israeli company had grown to a market capitalization of over $1.6 billion, with sales exceeding...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019
investments. The School launched a community-wide video and web conferencing service; continued to roll out a new VoIP telephone system; and strengthened cybersecurity technologies, protocols, and resources across the campus. IT spending...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home...
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