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This book reveals how leadership evolves through the story of the American airline industry across the 20th century. Entrepreneurs dominate the industry's early history, but as the industry evolved a new breed of managers emerged who built a dominant business model that enabled their companies to grow dramatically.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Entrepreneurs
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The Leaders
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Back Matter
Reviews
"An excellent read. Important lessons and insights from some of the key pioneers and innovators in the U.S. airline industry. Practitioners, airline managers, and students of the industry should find this book to bequite relevant." - Mark Diamond, SH&E International Air Transport Consultancy
"Having the right business model for the right context is a key to business success - but business leaders can also shape this. The complex interaction between leaders and their organizations is demonstrated with authority in this novel and empirically rich study of the turbulent one-hundred year history of the American airline industry." - Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School
About the authors
ANTHONY J. MAYO is the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the HBS Leadership Initiative.
NITIN NOHRIA is Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development at the Harvard Business School, USA.
MARK RENELLA is the author of The Boston Cosmopolitans: International Travel and American Arts and Letters (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders
Book Subtitle: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership
Authors: Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, Mark Rennella
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100954
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61567-0Published: 18 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10095-4Published: 23 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 248
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Transportation