Eighteen months after the launch of Nickelodeon Latin America, CEO Taran Swan to leave Miami headquarters for its New York home of complications during pregnancy. It is impossible to travel at least the next six months, Swan has to decide how it will work in the channel from New York. Should she put the acting head in place, and if so, which of her team should it be? What adjustments she needed to make her leadership style and her working relationship with the team? The case describes the launch of the channel and the first 18 months on the air, focusing on how the swans gather your team and crafts culture of the company. "Hide
by Linda A. Hill, Kristin C. Doughty Source: HBS Premier Case Collection 25 pages. Publication Date: August 15, 1999. Prod. #: 400036-PDF-ENG
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