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When Does Leadership Matter: A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership
Wasserman, Noam; Anand, Bharat N.; Nohria, NitinBook Chapter HBS-6122BC-ELeadership and People ManagementTo what extent does leadership influence organizational performance? In this chapter, Noam Wasserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria try to provide a balanced answer to this question. Replicating the variance partitioning method used by Stanley Lieberson and James O'Connor in their 1972 study on leadership and organizational performance, they analyze the performance of more than 500 publicly held U.S. companies (across 42 industries) over a 20-ye...Starting at €8.20
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Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
Podolny, Joel M.; Khurana, Rakesh; Besharov, MaryaBook Chapter HBS-6123BC-ELeadership and People ManagementThe authors of this chapter contend that the study of leadership in organizational theory went awry when interest in leadership became too tightly coupled with organizational performance. Leading organizational theorists in the latter part of the twentieth century, such as Max Weber, Chester Barnard, and Philip Selznick, were not concerned with leadership because of its ability to explain financial performance. Instead, they were concerned with l...Starting at €8.20
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Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (A) (Spanish Version)
Applegate, Lynda M.; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-808S07Knowledge and CommunicationDestacados dar y recibir retroalimentación en un salón de clases de MBA.Starting at €8.20
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Living on the Razor's Edge (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-813S11EntrepreneurshipDescribes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work.Starting at €8.20
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From Blogger to Odeo (B) (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; Maurice, LPCase HBS-814S07EntrepreneurshipThis case is accompanied by a Video Short that can be shown in class or included in a digital coursepack. Instructors should consider the timing of making the video available to students, as it may reveal key case details. For several months, founder-CEO Evan Williams has felt trapped, unable to control Odeo and its strategic direction. He longs for the "simple" days of Blogger, the previous venture he had co-founded. Although his Blogger experie...Starting at €5.74
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Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board (Spanish Version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-814S11EntrepreneurshipDescribe los problemas que enfrenta el fundador-director general en relación con la construcción de un tablero, el montaje de un equipo ejecutivo, la gestión de tensión entre los co-fundadores, y la externalización de trabajo de desarrollo.Starting at €5.74
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Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology (Spanish version)
Wasserman, Noam; McCance, HenryCase HBS-815S03EntrepreneurshipBefore he accepts the new CEO position, Dick Williams wants founder Lew Cirne to step down as chairman. While considering Williams' incredible demand, Cirne reflects on everything he has already given up to get Wily Technology to this point. He agreed to step down as CEO and take what could be a largely symbolic CTO title. He also agreed to give Williams roughly as much equity as he himself owned and far more in salary. As the founder, CEO, and c...Starting at €8.20
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Raymond Jetson's MetroMorphosis and the Effort to Transform Baton Rouge
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, Rakesh; Penrice, DanielCase HBS-315057-ERaymond Jetson, an inner-city pastor, former Louisiana state legislator, and 2010 Harvard University Advanced Leadership Fellow, has embarked on a new career as a social entrepreneur. The case charts Jetson's career in public life and the ministry, his experience as an Advanced Leadership Fellow, and his efforts to establish and grow a nonprofit organization, MetroMorphosis, with a mission "to develop and mobilize a critical mass of citizens in i...Starting at €8.20
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Planning a Start-Up Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night
Wasserman, NoamArticle HBS-F0901H-EEntrepreneurshipIf you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship your career.Starting at €8.20
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Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss; Khurana, RakeshCase HBS-410076-ELeadership and People ManagementLarge-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the economic crisis have made them more visible and increase their urgency. They share several characteristics that signal the need for new kinds of societal leadership and academic sch...Starting at €8.20