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HBR CAS E S T UD Y AN D C OM M E NT ARY What can Brad and When the Boss Won’t Len do to save AllerGen? Budge Five commentators offer expert advice. by Regina Fazio Maruca and John M. Milhaven • Reprint R00106 What happens when the top manager is holding back the company he created? HBR CAS E S T UD Y When the Boss Won’t Budge by Regina Fazio Maruca and John M. Milhaven . D E Normally, Brad Finneran and Len Tanaka “I never thought this whole thing would V R E S wouldn’t have been sitting at a corner table in come to a head over something as insignifi- E R S AllerGen’s small basement cafeteria, drinking cant as T-shirts,” said Brad, shaking his head in T H G I coffee at 3:45 in the afternoon. Brad, Aller- disgust. R L L Gen’s director of research, and Len, the biotech “I knew it would,” Len said. He crumpled his A . N company’s