MGMT1135 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alan Mulally, High-Yield Debt, Travis Kalanick
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Leaders are the key players in organizations who lead them either into success or failure (kelley 1988, 1992) Travis kalanick was uber"s biggest asset, and its biggest liability. As we know, uber would not exist without travis kalanick. He wasn"t the one to come up with the idea for it or even its first ceo. But there"s no doubt that kalanick was the one to take the company from a seed of an idea for a car service and to craft it into the most valuable private technology startup today. Kalanick"s aggression, dedication, and scrappiness built uber. But now those same traits threaten to tear it down. The rise and fall of marissa mayer, from the once-beloved ceo of yahoo to a. Hopes were high when marissa mayer was hired as ceo of yahoo in: people thought she would turn around the perennially dysfunctional internet giant.
