When 'stars' migrate, do they still perform like stars?

MIT Sloan Management Review

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Groysberg, Boris ^a   Sant, Lex ^b,c   Abrahams, Robin ^a  

^a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Persimmon Tree Capital   (United States)

^c Harvard Business School ^*

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