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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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Tale of the Lynx (A)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-807151-ELeadership and People ManagementThe founders of Lynx Solutions have survived tensions within the founding team, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now the founders are considering a proposal from one of their directors to make a dramatic shift in the venture's strategy and have to decide how to react. A rewritten version of an earlier case.Starting at €8.20
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Tale of the Lynx (C)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-807153-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. Continuation of the 'Tale of the Lynx' case series.Starting at €5.74
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Tale of the Lynx Case Series, Teaching Note
Wasserman, NoamTeaching Note HBS-808090-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note to (807-151), (807-152), (807-153), and (807-112).Starting at €0.00
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The Founder's Dilemma (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamArticle HBS-R0802GLeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Why do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Wasserman shows that those goals are largely incompatible. The author's studies indicate that a founder w...Starting at €8.20
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Tale of the Lynx (A and B)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-807112-ELeadership and People ManagementThe founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is finally becoming profitable, the two remaining founders are embroiled in exhausting fights over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to d...Starting at €8.20
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Les is More, Times Four
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-807173-ELeadership and People Management"I've had enough! I've decided that I need to resign," read the email from the founder of Webpoint to the company's board of directors. Les Trachtman, the CEO of Webpoint, has to figure out how to react to the founder's "it's Trachtman or me" ultimatum. Webpoint was Trachtman's fourth job as CEO, and in each case he had been hired as the first non-founding CEO, taking over from the founder-CEO of a tight-knit founding team. Trachtman had first ta...Starting at €8.20
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The Founder's Dilemma
Wasserman, NoamArticle HBS-R0802G-ELeadership and People ManagementThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Why do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Wasserman shows that those goals are largely incompatible. The author's studies indicate that a founder w...Starting at €8.20