Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us about Leadership

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.

Author: A. Mayo, N. Nohria, M. Rennella
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230615670

About the Author

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).