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Searching for a Corporate Savior : The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true...

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Autor principal: Khurana, Rakesh, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Half title; 1. "Everyone Knew He Was Brilliant": The Wooing of Jamie Dimon; 2. A Different Kind of Market; 3. The Rise of the Charismatic Ceo; 4. Board Games: The Role of Directors in Ceo Search; 5. The Go-Betweens: The Role of the Executive Search Firm; 6. Crowning Napoleon: The Making of the Charismatic Candidate; 7. Open Positions, Closed Shops: Learning from the External Ceo Succession Process; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.