The Tale of the Lynx (A and B)

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Case

Reference no. 9-807-112

Subject category: Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour

Authors: Noam Wasserman (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 2007

Version: 5 April 2007

Length: 17 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Board of directors; Careers and career planning; Chief executive officer (CEO); Entrepreneurs; Executive compensation; Founders; Human resources management; Succession planning; Venture capital

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Abstract

The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx''s founder-chief executive officer (CEO) and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying on its users. Now that the company is finally becoming profitable, the two remaining founders are embroiled in exhausting fights over how aggressively the company should try to grow, and those fights are threatening to derail Lynx''s recent success.

Industry:

High technology

Size:

20 employees, US$1 million revenues