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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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Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
George, William W.; Sims, Peter; McLean, Andrew N.; Mayer, David; Mayer, DianaArticle HBS-R0702H-ELeadership and People ManagementThe ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the 21st century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial, religious, national, and socioeconom...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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Are Leaders Portable? (Spanish version)
Groysberg, Boris; McLean, Andrew N.; Nohria, NitinArticle HBS-R0605ELeadership and People Managementgeneral management, which is readily transferable, and company specific, which is not. In fact, they argue, other types of management capabilities can contribute significantly to performance, and company-specific skills can be an asset in a new job.Starting at €8.20
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Discovering Your Authentic Leadership (Spanish version)
George, William W.; Sims, Peter; McLean, Andrew N.; Mayer, David; Mayer, DianaArticle HBS-R0702HLeadership and People Managementthe authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial, religious, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds to understand how leaders become, and remain, authentic. Their interviews showed that you do not have to be born with any par...Starting at €8.20
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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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Building Starbucks Community (Spanish version)
George, William W.; McLean, Andrew N.Case HBS-419S17Leadership and People ManagementIn 2006, Howard Schultz reflects on his leadership at Starbucks in light of its continued growth plans. Provides information on the leadership development of the protagonist, tracing his youth and education, his early business career, his acquisition of Starbucks, and its subsequent massive growth. Raises questions about leadership styles, the role of a self-authored life story in leadership, and the qualities that attract, retain, and deploy com...Starting at €8.20
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Oprah! (Spanish version)
George, William W.; McLean, Andrew N.Case HBS-418S24Leadership and People ManagementThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in Winfrey's own words between passages i...Starting at €8.20