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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? While once the corner office was almost invariably inherited by an insider, now it is more common to see companies reaching for "stars" who might perform miracles, or at least give the stock price a boost.