by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

Editor's note: According to the authors of The Handbook for Teaching Leadership, Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana, we have reached a crossroads in leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

Rakesh Khurana

Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College.

Professor... View Details

Keywords: executive search

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, recently published by Harvard Business Press, aims to give the topic its intellectual due. Edited by Khurana and Nitin Nohria, who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice seeks to bridge this disconnect. Based on the Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium "Leadership: Advancing an Intellectual Discipline" and edited by HBS professors Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, this volume... View Details

11 Nov 2016
News

The career afterlife

May 20, 2010
Article

Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies

By: Tsedal Neeley

Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Diversity

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Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice

By: Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria

More than a means of getting ahead and gaining power, leadership must be understood as a serious professional and personal responsibility. In this introductory chapter, editors Nitin Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, and Rakesh Khurana, a professor of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Research; Theory

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23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

him and one of its board members? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process, as well as the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance, has been the goal of recent research by HBS assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges Authors:Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode Publication:Chap. 14 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

Leadership As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership-and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others-has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

entrepreneurs who think they can defy the rules and trample on communities and also lacking in command-and-control hierarchical types of officials. Like companies, universities can get stuck inside their buildings, too. My cofounders View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

Business Management a Profession?" In it, Harvard Business School colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and their research associate, Daniel Penrice, propose that it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

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changes, or unexpected market shifts that threaten to upend their current business model. This process, which I call reinvention, may occur... September–October 2024 Article Harvard Business Review The Art of Leading Teammates By: Tom Brady and View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms

of the personal connection it already enjoyed? Understanding the dynamics of the CEO search process — and the ways in which chief executive turnover influences corporate performance — has been the subject of recent research by HBS... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Telecommunications; Information