From the outside, 14 West Mount Vernon Place is the kind of beautiful, well-maintained, 19th-century building for which the Mount Vernon neighborhood is known. But that staid aesthetic is just skin deep.
Inside the building, innovative things are happening at one of Baltimore’s largest legacy media organizations.
The building houses the headquarters of the Agora companies, a collection of media companies that publish a variety of financial, health, travel and special interest books and newsletters. Started in 1978 as one company, the Agora companies have since grown, transforming into a global consortium relying on the innovations of in-house technology teams to power that expansion.
Most recently, the organization launched 14 West, a company focused on recruiting and administrative services, and on maintaining the culture that powers the rest of the Agora companies’ work.
Sixteen years ago, when HR Director Elizabeth Massing started with Agora as an intern, the organization was comprised of one company of about 200 employees. Today, the collection of companies includes multiple entities and about 850 employees in Baltimore alone. It’s a lot of growth, but according to Massing, in some ways, the organization still feels like the same company she started with all those years ago.
Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore
from http://baltimoretech.org/news/meet-the-new-agora-companies/
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