Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law

Name: Marsha Simms: Trailblazer in Corporate Law (English version)
SKU: 422012

Ely, Robin J.; Groysberg, Boris; Ammerman, Colleen; Hull, Olivia

Product #:422012

Supplier:Harvard Business School

Discipline:General Management

Setting:New York;United States

Details:Case (PDF) • 20 pages • 2022-04-24

Subjects:

Business law Leadership Leadership development Power and influence Business law and ethics Leadership and managing people Leadership and managing people Management

Geography:

New York United States North America

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Follows the journey of lawyer Marsha Simms from her childhood in racially-segregated St. Louis to the upper echelons of the New York legal community. Describes her education, career choices, accomplishments, and setbacks. Highlights significant moments such as her decision to attend law school; discovering a practice area she excelled at; failing to advance to partner at one firm; moving firms and achieving partnership; and joining her first board of directors. Explores how she navigated a majority-white, male-dominated industry as a Black woman and contextualizes Marsha's career trajectory within the history of racial and gender discrimination in the legal field.