Introduction
On August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple — for the second time. The move had been anticipated for years, but nonetheless was greeted as a bombshell. Jobs was, after all, not just another CEO. He was not even just “the best-performing CEO in the world,” as business scholars Morten T. Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer ranked him in an article published in the Harvard Business Review in 2010. He was a world changer and a cultural icon, and the company he cofounded and ran has become a business story for the ages.
It is the business, management, and leadership lessons that can be drawn from Jobs’s career that have fascinated writers for HBR in recent years. We’ve selected six pieces—two from after the announcement, ...
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