Innovation IT Strategy Process Strategic Fit 
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2014
Nardelli’s background and personality were a perfect fit for that challenge and he delivered some of the company’s most profitable years. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth. Ballmer took over, and excelled at, a Box 2 challenge.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2014
For finishers, he will have to change its treads—redirect its strategy—while barreling down a highway with no map for what lies ahead. Consider the CEO succession process at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline beginning in 2004 when chief executive Jean-Pierre Garnier said he would be exiting in three years.
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