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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? In his 2002 book Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs , the Harvard Business School professor shows how the norm of CEO succession has changed over time. How portable are leaders?