Despite the fact that most business schools' mission statement proclaim their commitment to developing leaders who can contribute in a meaningful way to the betterment of their organizations and society, research and teaching on leadership remains a fragmented and often marginal enterprise in most schools. This project is designed to stimulate research on leadership that is rigorous and relevant--advancing theory, teaching, and practice. It aims to mobilize a community of scholars and educators who are committed to advancing that state of research and teaching on leadership.
Nitin Nohria
George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
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Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on input from faculty, students, staff, and alumni, he identified five priorities for Harvard Business School: innovation in the School's educational programs; intellectual ambition to advance ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalization, through building a global intellectual footprint; creating a culture of inclusion, where every member of the community could do their best work in support of the School's mission; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard University. Activities undertaken in support of these priorities included:
• A year-long course in the Required Curriculum of the MBA Program, Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD), that provides students with intensive, immersive, small-group opportunities to develop the knowing, doing, and being of leadership.
• The U.S. Competitiveness Project, a multi-faculty research-led effort to understand and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.
• The launch of the Harvard Innovation Lab, an initiative to foster team-based and entrepreneurial activities and deepen interactions among Harvard students, faculty, entrepreneurs, and members of the Allston and Greater Boston community; the i-lab ecosystem now includes the alumni Launch Lab X and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab.
• Harvard Business School Online, the School's digital platform—encompassing CORe, courses, and the Live Online Classroom—that brings the dynamism of the HBS classroom to online learning.
Nohria's intellectual interests center on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance. He is co-author or co-editor of 16 books. The most recent, Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, is a compendium dedicated to advancing research on leadership based on a colloquium he organized during HBS’s centennial celebrations. Nohria is also the author of over 50 journal articles, book chapters, cases, working papers, and notes. He sits on the board of directors of Bridgespan and on the board of trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition, he serves as an advisor to BDT Capital Partners, Piramal Enterprises, and Tata Sons, on the advisory board of Akshaya Patra and ShopX, and as a strategic advisor to Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global (FCLTGlobal). He has been interviewed by ABC, CNN, and NPR; written for Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Financial Times, and Boston Globe; and cited in Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Fortune, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.
Prior to joining the Harvard Business School faculty in July 1988, Nohria received his Ph.D. in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007). He was a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996.
He and his wife live in the Boston area and have two daughters.
- Books
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- Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria. Management: An Integrated Approach. 2nd ed. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016. View Details
- Snook, Scott, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, eds. The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2012. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana, eds. Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
- Mayo, Anthony J., Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. View Details
- Mayo, Anthony, Nitin Nohria, and Laura G. Singleton. Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. View Details
- Mayo, Anthony, and Nitin Nohria. In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the 20th Century. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2005. View Details
- Joyce, William F., Nitin Nohria, and Bruce Roberson. What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success. New York: Harper Business, 2003. View Details
- Moldoveanu, Mihnea, and Nitin Nohria. Master Passions: The Interplay of Anxiety, Ambition, and Envy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Davis Dwyer, and Fred Dalzell Jr. Changing Fortunes: The Remaking of the Industrial Corporation. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. View Details
- Lawrence, Paul R., and Nitin Nohria. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001. View Details
- Beer, Michael and Nitin Nohria, eds. Breaking the Code of Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. View Details
- Nohria, N., and J. Champy. The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey. Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2000. View Details
- Nohria, N. The Portable MBA Desk Reference. 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. View Details
- Nohria, N., and S. Ghoshal. The Differentiated Network: Organizations Knowledge Flows in Multinational Corporations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. View Details
- Champy, J., and N. Nohria. Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing Business Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. View Details
- Cash, J. I., Jr., R. G. Eccles, N. Nohria, and R. Nolan. Building the Information-Age Organization: Structure, Control, and Information Technologies. 3rd ed. Irwin Case Book Series in Information Systems Management. Irwin, 1994. View Details
- Nohria, N. and Robert G. Eccles, eds. Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form, and Action. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
- Eccles, R. G., N. Nohria, and J. D. Berkley. Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
- Journal Articles
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- Buberl, Thomas, Bill George, Hubert Joly, and Nitin Nohria. "Leading a Company That Can Thrive in a Chaotic World." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 1, 2024). View Details
- Brady, Tom, and Nitin Nohria. "The Art of Leading Teammates." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 5 (September–October 2024): 62–69. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Leaders Must React: A Framework for Responding to Unforeseen Events." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 1 (January–February 2024): 51–55. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "When Charismatic CEOs Are an Asset—and When They’re a Liability." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 1, 2023). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 13, 2023). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "How CEOs Can Navigate the Emotional Labor of Leadership." Harvard Business Review (website) (August 11, 2023). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Katie Josephson, Sophia Wronsky, and Elizabeth Rha. "Case Study: How Should a Start-Up Cut Its Burn Rate?" Harvard Business Review 101, no. 4 (July–August 2023): 144–149. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 14, 2023). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "As the World Shifts, So Should Leaders." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 59–61. View Details
- Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria. "How CEOs Manage Time." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 42–51. View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim. "What Makes Analysts Say 'Buy'?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "A Whole New Way of Looking at the World." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012): 91. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Why U.S. Competitiveness Matters to All of Us." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "What Business Schools Can Learn from the Medical Profession." Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 1-2 (January–February 2012). View Details
- Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria. "How to Hang on to Your High Potentials." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 10 (October 2011). View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim. "What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?" Financial Analysts Journal 67, no. 4 (July–August 2011). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 44. View Details
- Gulati, Ranjay, Nitin Nohria, and Franz Wohlgezogen. "Roaring Out of Recession." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 3 (March 2010): 62–69. View Details
- Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio, Boris Groysberg, and Nitin Nohria. "The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009): 74–84. View Details
- Gulati, Ranjay, and Nitin Nohria. "Tasting the Fruits of Effective Innovation." Financial Times (February 5, 2009). View Details
- Green, Sandy Edward, Yuan Li, and Nitin Nohria. "Suspended in Self-Spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency." Academy of Management Journal 52, no. 1 (February 2009): 11–36. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "From Regional Star to Global Leader." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Boris Groysberg, and Linda-Eling Lee. "Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 78–84. View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Andrew N. McLean, and Nitin Nohria. "Are Leaders Portable?" Harvard Business Review 84, no. 5 (May 2006): 92–100. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Survival of the Adaptive." Forethought. Harvard Business Review 84, no. 5 (May 2006): 23. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Thomas A. Stewart. "Risk, Uncertainty, and Doubt." Breakthrough Ideas. Harvard Business Review 84, no. 2 (February 2006): 39–40. View Details
- Love, E. Geoffrey, and Nitin Nohria. "Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93." Strategic Management Journal 26, no. 12 (December 2005): 1087–1108. View Details
- Mayo, Anthony, and Nitin Nohria. "Double-edged Sword." Leadership. People Management 11, no. 21 (October 27, 2005). View Details
- Mayo, Anthony, and Nitin Nohria. "Zeitgeist Leadership." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 10 (October 2005). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Feed R&D--or Farm It Out?" Case Study and Commentary. Harvard Business Review 83, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2005). View Details
- Porter, Michael E., Jay W. Lorsch, and Nitin Nohria. "Seven Surprises for New CEOs." R0410C. Harvard Business Review 82, no. 10 (October 2004): 62–72. View Details
- Hansen, Morten T., and Nitin Nohria. "How to Build Collaborative Advantage." MIT Sloan Management Review 46, no. 1 (Fall 2004): 22–30. (Winner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Best Article Award For the article published in the MIT Sloan Management Review that has contributed most significantly to the enhancement and advancement of management practice.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Ashish Nanda, and Nitin Nohria. "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 5 (May 2004): 92–100. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, William F. Joyce, and Bruce Roberson. "What Really Works." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 7 (July 2003). View Details
- Garcia-Pont, Carlos, and Nitin Nohria. "Local Versus Global Mimetism: The Dynamics of Alliance Formation in the Automobile Industry." Strategic Management Journal 23, no. 4 (April 2002): 307–321. View Details
- Maletz, Mark C., and N. Nohria. "Managing in the Whitespace." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 2 (February 2001). View Details
- Hansen, Morten, H. Chesbrough, N. Nohria, and D. Sull. "Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 5 (September–October 2000): 74–84. View Details
- Hansen, Morten T., Jeffrey Berger, and Nitin Nohria. "The State of the Incubator Marketspace." Report Harvard Business Review (June 2000). View Details
- Khanna, Tarun, Ranjay Gulati, and Nitin Nohria. "The Economic Modeling of Strategy Process: 'Clean Models' and 'Dirty Hands'." Strategic Management Journal 21, no. 7 (July 2000): 781–790. View Details
- Beer, Michael, and Nitin Nohria. "Cracking the Code of Change." Harvard Business Review 78, no. 3 (May–June 2000): 133–141. View Details
- Gulati, Ranjay, Nitin Nohria, and Akbar Zaheer. "Strategic Networks." Strategic Management Journal 21, no. 3 (March 2000): 203–215. View Details
- Hansen, Morten T., N. Nohria, and Thomas Tierney. "What's Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?" Harvard Business Review 77, no. 2 (March–April 1999): 106–116. View Details
- Gulati, Ranjay, and Nitin Nohria. "What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack? A Study of the Relationship Between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms." European Management Journal 15, no. 6 (December 1997): 603–611. (This is a longer version of the paper we jointly published in Academy Management Journal in 1996.) View Details
- Gulati, Ranjay, and Nitin Nohria. "Is Slack Good or Bad for Innovation?" Academy of Management Journal 39, no. 5 (October 1996): 1245–1264. (A shorter version of this paper appeared in Academy of Management Best Papers Proceedings, 1995.) View Details
- Sull, D., and N. Nohria. "Managing Distrust: The Hidden Cost of Downsizing." Business Ethics Forum 8 (1995): 73–83. View Details
- Rosenzweig, P., and N. Nohria. "Influences on Human Resource Management Practices in Multinational Corporations." Journal of International Business Studies 25, no. 2 (Second Quarter 1994): 229–252. View Details
- Nohria, N., and S. Ghoshal. "Differentiated Fit and Shared Values: Alternatives for Managing Headquarters-subsidiary Relations." Strategic Management Journal 15, no. 6 (July 1994): 491–502. View Details
- Nohria, N., and J. D. Berkley. "An Action Perspective: The Crux of the New Management." California Management Review 36, no. 4 (summer 1994): 70–92. View Details
- Gulati, R., T. Khanna, and N. Nohria. "Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances." MIT Sloan Management Review 35, no. 3 (spring 1994): 61–69. View Details
- Davenport, T., and N. Nohria. "Case Management and the Integration of Labor." MIT Sloan Management Review 35, no. 2 (winter 1994): 11–23. View Details
- Nohria, N., and J. D. Berkley. "Whatever Happened to the Take-charge Manager?" Harvard Business Review 72, no. 1 (January–February 1994): 128–137. View Details
- Ghoshal, S., and N. Nohria. "Horses for Courses: Organizational Forms for Multinational Corporations." MIT Sloan Management Review 34, no. 2 (winter 1993): 23–35. View Details
- Nohria, N., and C. Garcia-Pont. "Global Strategic Linkages and Industry Structure." Strategic Management Journal 12 (Summer 1991): 105–124. View Details
- Ghoshal, S., and N. Nohria. "Internal Differentiation Within Multinational Corporations." Strategic Management Journal 10, no. 4 (July–August 1989): 323–337. View Details
- Book Chapters
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- Snook, Scott, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana. "Teaching Leadership: Advancing the Field." Chap. 1 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being, edited by Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011. View Details
- Wasserman, Noam, Nitin Nohria, and Bharat Anand. "When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership." Chap. 2 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
- Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria. "What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations." Chap. 16 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
- Khurana, Rakesh, and Nitin Nohria. "Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice." Chap. 1 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010. View Details
- Khurana, Rakesh, Nitin Nohria, and Daniel Penrice. "Management as a Profession." Chap. 3 in Restoring Trust in American Business, edited by Jay W. Lorsch, A. Zelleke, and Leslie Berlowitz. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005. View Details
- Hansen, Morten T., Nitin Nohria, and Thomas Tierney. "What's Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?" In Harvard Business Review on Organizational Learning. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2001. View Details
- Higgins, M. C., and N. Nohria. "The Sidekick Effect: Mentoring Relationships and the Development of Social Capital." In Corporate Social Capital and Liability, edited by S. Gabbay and R. Leenders. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. View Details
- Sull, D., and N. Nohria. "Managing the Hidden Cost of Distrust in Downsizing." In Downsizing, edited by A. Raj Joshi and Greg Nelson. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. View Details
- Nohria, N., and R. Gulati. "Firms and Their Environments." In Handbook of Economic Sociology, edited by N. Smelser and R. Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994. View Details
- Nohria, N., and J. D. Berkley. "The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control." In The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change, edited by Anne Donnellon and Charles C Heckscher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. View Details
- Nohria, N. "Information and Search in the Creation of New Ventures: The Case of the 128 Venture Group." In Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action, edited by N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
- Nohria, N. "Is a Network Perspective a Useful Way of Studying Organizations?" In Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action, edited by N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
- Nohria, N., and R. G. Eccles. "Face-to-Face: Making Network Organizations Work." In Networks and Organizations: Structure, Form and Action, edited by N. Nohria and R. C. Eccles. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992. View Details
- Lessard, D., and N. Nohria. "Rediscovering Functions in the MNC: The Role of Expertise in Firms' Response to Shifting Exchange Rates." In Managing the Global Firm, edited by Christopher A. Bartlett, Y. Doz, and G. Hedlund. London: Routledge, 1990. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Nitin Nohria. "Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-087, April 2008. View Details
- Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Rakesh Khurana, and Nitin Nohria. "Moving Higher Education to the Next Stage: A New Set of Societal Challenges, a New Stage of Life, and a Call to Action for Universities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-021, November 2005. View Details
- Wasserman, Noam, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria. "When Does Leadership Matter? The Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-063, January 2001. ((Later published as Ch. 2 in The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, 2010.)) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "The Effects of CEO Turnover in Large Industrial Corporations: A Study of the Fortune 200 From 1978 - 1993 (Revised)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-056, December 1997. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "From the M-form to the N-form: Taking Stock of Changes in the Large Industrial Corporation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-054, October 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Geoffrey Love. "Adaptive or Disruptive: When Does Downsizing Pay in Large Industrial Corporations?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-057, April 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy E. Green. "Efficiency and Legitimacy: The Adoption of TQM by Large Industrial Corporations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-055, April 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. "Focus and Diversification: The Effects of Changes in the Scope of Large Industrial Corporations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-058, April 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and James D. Berkley. "From Structure to Structuring: A Pragmatic Perspective on Organizational Design." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-053, April 1996. View Details
- Moldoveanu, Michael C., Nitin Nohria, and Howard H. Stevenson. "The Path-Dependent Evolution of Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 96-005, August 1995. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Joly, Hubert, Nitin Nohria, and Emilie Billaud. "Michelin in Motion: Putting Purpose to Work." Harvard Business School Case 324-127, April 2024. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Das Narayandas, and Kayti Stanley. "Driving Transformation: Jeff Jones at H&R Block." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-703, July 2024. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Das Narayandas, and Kayti Stanley. "Driving Transformation: Jeff Jones at H&R Block." Harvard Business School Case 424-079, June 2024. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Sandra J. Sucher, Joseph Badaracco, and Bridget Gurtler. "Ethical Analysis: Situation versus Character." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-078, September 2015. (Revised January 2023.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "The Executive Team at Williams Properties: Putting the Right People in the Right Seats." Harvard Business School Case 424-041, February 2024. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Driving DEI in the Boardroom." Harvard Business School Case 424-037, June 2024. View Details
- Nanda, Ashish, Nitin Nohria, and Margaret Cross. "P.F. Chang's." Harvard Business School Case 721-380, March 2021. View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, Robin Abrahams, and Kerry Herman. "Solvay Group: International Mobility and Managing Expatriates." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 417-088, May 2017. (Revised June 2017.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Kerry Herman, and Sarah Gulick. "Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors." Harvard Business School Case 418-042, January 2018. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Aldo Sesia, and Kerry Herman. "Lloyd Blankfein and Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 418-043, January 2018. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Christopher Payton, and Ali Huberlie. "Connective Mobility." Harvard Business School Case 816-051, September 2015. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony J. Mayo, and Mark Benson. "General Electric's 20th Century CEOs (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 406-118, May 2006. (Revised February 2012.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Bridget Gurtler. "Walt Disney and the 1941 Animators' Strike." Harvard Business School Case 406-076, December 2005. (Revised May 2014.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Bridget Gurtler. "Jesse Holman Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 406-029, July 2005. (Revised August 2011.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, Colleen Kaftan, and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Leadership in Energy: Jim Rogers at Cinergy." Harvard Business School Case 408-097, December 2007. (Revised July 2011.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "General Electric's 20th Century CEOs." Harvard Business School Case 406-048, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "C.W. Post." Harvard Business School Case 406-063, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, and Kerry Herman. "Solvay Group: International Mobility and Managing Expatriates." Harvard Business School Case 409-079, January 2009. (Revised February 2011.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "Gordon Bethune at Continental Airlines." Harvard Business School Case 406-073, January 2006. (Revised July 2016.) View Details
- Khurana, Rakesh, Nitin Nohria, and Dalia Rahman. "HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?" Harvard Business School Case 411-024, September 2010. (Revised October 2010.) View Details
- Kaplan, Robert Steven, Nitin Nohria, and Ben Creo. "Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship." Harvard Business School Case 411-048, September 2010. View Details
- Mayo, Anthony, Nitin Nohria, Umaimah Mendhro, and Johnathan Cromwell. "Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of 'Dubai, Inc.'." Harvard Business School Case 410-063, February 2010. (Revised August 2010.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Ashish Nanda. "Managing the Client Portfolio." Harvard Business School Case 410-139, June 2010. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Thomas R. Piper. "Malden Mills (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 410-083, March 2010. (Revised June 2010.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia." Harvard Business School Case 406-062, December 2005. (Revised March 2010.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, Mark Maletz, and Kerry Herman. "Managing Talent at Bertelsmann AG (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-010, December 2009. (Revised January 2010.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Umaimah Mendhro. "Ralph Nader: When Purpose and Legacy Collide." Harvard Business School Case 409-117, May 2009. (Revised November 2009.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs." Harvard Business School Case 410-026, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Losing Their Way." Harvard Business School Case 410-027, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Coping with Crucibles." Harvard Business School Case 410-028, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Values and Ethical Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 410-029, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Developing Self-Awareness." Harvard Business School Case 410-030, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Motivations." Harvard Business School Case 410-031, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Relationships and Support Teams." Harvard Business School Case 410-032, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leading an Integrated Life." Harvard Business School Case 410-033, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Leadership Purpose." Harvard Business School Case 410-034, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Life Stories of Recent MBAs: Empowering Others." Harvard Business School Case 410-035, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Monica Chi: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-036, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Ann Gildroy: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-037, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Jaime Irick: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-038, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Sachin Jain: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-039, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Matthew D. Breitfelder, and Daisy A Wademan Dowling. "Alex Mandl: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-040, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Daisy A Wademan Dowling, and Matthew D. Breitfelder. "Daniel Salvadori: Life Story of a Recent MBA." Harvard Business School Case 410-041, August 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Martha Spaulding. "Who is the Fairest of Them All? Choosing a Leader at Deronde International." Harvard Business School Case 409-113, May 2009. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "J. R. D. Tata." Harvard Business School Case 407-061, December 2006. (Revised April 2014.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, and Deborah Bell. "Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit." Harvard Business School Case 409-090, March 2009. View Details
- Anteby, Michel, and Nitin Nohria. "Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal." Harvard Business School Case 408-001, September 2007. (Revised December 2008.) View Details
- Anteby, Michel, and Nitin Nohria. "Michael Fernandes at Nicholas Piramal (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 408-132, May 2008. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony J. Mayo, and Mark Benson. "Li Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong." Harvard Business School Case 407-062, November 2006. (Revised May 2014.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Logan Wilcox. "Henry Luce and the American Century." Harvard Business School Case 407-076, January 2007. (Revised May 2008.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Alan Price. "Kirk Arnold." Harvard Business School Supplement 402-020, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Alan Price. "Malcolm Frank." Harvard Business School Supplement 402-021, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Anthony Mayo. "NerveWire, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 402-022, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.) View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, Colleen Kaftan, and Geoff Eckman Marietta. "Cinergy and Duke Energy 2005: Think BIG." Harvard Business School Case 408-096, December 2007. View Details
- Groysberg, Boris, Nitin Nohria, and Derek Haas. "The 1995 Release of the Institutional Investor Research Report: The Impact of New Information." Harvard Business School Case 408-061, November 2007. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Rennella. "Juan Trippe and Pan American World Airways." Harvard Business School Case 406-086, January 2006. (Revised July 2007.) View Details
- Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Nitin Nohria. "Robert E. Rubin (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 407-107, April 2007. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Robert Steven Kaplan, and Nicole Davison. "Robert E. Rubin (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 407-068, March 2007. View Details
- Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "UBS: Towards the Integrated Firm." Harvard Business School Case 506-026, March 2006. (Revised February 2007.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Robert Steven Kaplan, and Nicole Davison. "Robert E. Rubin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 407-064, January 2007. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, Foluke Otudeko, and Mark Benson. "Chief Timothy Adeola Odutola and Nigeria's Manufacturing Sector." Harvard Business School Case 407-027, December 2006. (Revised January 2007.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Thomas R. Piper, and Bridget Gurtler. "Malden Mills (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-072, December 2003. (Revised August 2006.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Bharat N. Anand, and Kyle F. Barnett. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 495-018, September 1994. (Revised August 2006.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Charles Nichols. "Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture." Harvard Business School Case 406-009, March 2006. (Revised August 2006.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Li Ka-Shing." Harvard Business School Case 405-026, August 2004. (Revised December 2005.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, Krishna G. Palepu, and David Lane. "Leading Anadarko." Harvard Business School Case 406-014, July 2005. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and James Weber. "Royal Bank of Scotland, The: Masters of Integration." Harvard Business School Case 404-026, August 2003. (Revised June 2005.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Clarence Saunders: The Comeback King." Harvard Business School Case 404-070, May 2004. (Revised July 2004.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Malden Mills (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 404-073, January 2004. (Revised June 2004.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Brief Biographical Note on P. Roy Vagelos." Harvard Business School Case 404-132, May 2004. (Revised June 2004.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "Note on Human Behavior: Reason and Emotion." Harvard Business School Case 404-104, February 2004. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "C.W. Post: An American Legacy." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 404-804, February 2004. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "What Really Matters." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2004. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 5984C.) View Details
- Applegate, Lynda M., Nitin Nohria, and Catherine Rucker. "Advice to Section Presidents from Section Presidents." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-197, June 2003. (Revised October 2003.) View Details
- Lal, Rajiv, Nitin Nohria, and Leslie Freeman. "Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads." Harvard Business School Case 503-112, June 2003. View Details
- Anand, Bharat N., Nitin Nohria, and John Pegg. "ICICI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 701-064, February 2001. (Revised March 2003.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Bridget Gurtler. "NerveWire (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 403-055, August 2002. (Revised March 2003.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Todd Jick. "John Smithers." Harvard Business School Case 402-041, December 2001. (Revised November 2002.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "NerveWire: A Tale of Two Executives." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 403-806, October 2002. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy Green. "Chrysler: Iacocca's Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 493-017, September 1992. (Revised January 2002.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Stephanie L. Woerner. "Ford: Petersen's Turnaround TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 497-023, August 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Stephanie L. Woerner. "General Motors: Smith's Dilemma TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 497-024, August 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Chrysler: Iacocca's Legacy TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 496-059, June 1996. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Step Change at Du Pont's Camden Plant." Harvard Business School Case 495-017, October 1994. (Revised March 1996.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy Green. "Millipore: A Common Language for Common Systems." Harvard Business School Case 494-011, August 1993. (Revised March 1996.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-029, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (A-1) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Supplement 496-030, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (B) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-031, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISK (A)." Harvard Business School Case 496-032, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (A-1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 496-033, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (B)." Harvard Business School Case 496-034, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Scott A. Snook. "DISC (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 496-035, October 1995. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Symantec--1982-90." Harvard Business School Case 491-010, July 1990. (Revised August 1995.) View Details
- Bernstein, Ethan, and Nitin Nohria. "Note on Organizational Structure." Harvard Business School Background Note 491-083, February 1991. (Revised May 2016.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Colliers International Property Consultants." Harvard Business School Case 490-049, January 1990. (Revised June 1995.) View Details
- Bradach, Jeffrey L., and Nitin Nohria. "Cordoba Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-064, October 1993. (Revised June 1995.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Symantec, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-060, May 1992. (Revised June 1995.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Colliers International Property Consultants, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-055, May 1992. (Revised April 1995.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Millipore Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 594-009, July 1993. (Revised March 1995.) View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and James Berkley. "MCI: From Mainframe to Metroplex." Harvard Business School Case 495-020, September 1994. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Robert G. Eccles Jr. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (Consolidated) (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 495-019, September 1994. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Rhetoric of Change." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-036, August 1993. (Revised August 1994.) View Details
- Bradach, Jeffrey L., and Nitin Nohria. "Cordoba Corp.: George Pla; Maria Mehranian, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 494-510, July 1994. View Details
- Bradach, Jeffrey L., and Nitin Nohria. "Cordoba Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-065, October 1993. (Revised December 1993.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Six Principles of Successful Persuasion." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-037, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "Executing Change: Seven Key Considerations." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-038, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "Executing Change: Three Generic Strategies." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-039, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Managing Change: Course Overview--Introduction: Myths and Realities." Harvard Business School Background Note 494-042, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy Green. "Ford: Petersen's Turnaround." Harvard Business School Case 494-017, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and Sandy Green. "General Motors: Smith's Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 494-020, August 1993. View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-023, August 1993. View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-024, August 1993. View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-025, August 1993. View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-026, August 1993. View Details
- Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Nitin Nohria, and Norman Klein. "Giddings & Lewis: In Search of the Cutting Edge (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 494-027, August 1993. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Crompton Greaves Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 491-074, January 1991. (Revised November 1992.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Appex Corp., Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-039, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. Advertising (A) and (B), Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-040, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Internal Revenue Service: ACS, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 490-043, February 1990. (Revised May 1992.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-054, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-057, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Lithonia Lighting, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-058, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Lithonia Lighting." Harvard Business School Case 492-003, June 1991. (Revised May 1992.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Crompton Greaves Ltd., Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 492-056, May 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable." Harvard Business School Case 492-052, March 1992. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Appex Corp." Harvard Business School Case 491-082, February 1991. (Revised February 1992.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. Advertising (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-016, February 1991. (Revised February 1991.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Inc. Advertising (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 491-017, December 1990. (Revised February 1991.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Allen-Bradley's ICCG: Repositioning for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 491-066, December 1990. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System." Harvard Business School Case 490-042, February 1990. (Revised July 1990.) View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Note on Electronic Monitoring." Harvard Business School Background Note 490-044, February 1990. View Details
- Presentations
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- Khanna, T., R. Gulati, and N. Nohria. "Alliances as Learning Races." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, January 01, 1994. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin, and R. Gulati. "Mutually Assured Alliances." Academy of Management, January 1, 1992. View Details
- Other Publications and Materials
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- Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Nitin Nohria. "Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures." September 2006. View Details
- Hansen, Morten T., and Nitin Nohria. "Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a Collaborative Advantage." Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, January 2003. View Details
- Editorials
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- Nohria, Nitin. "The Post-Pandemic Office Should Be a Clubhouse." Wall Street Journal (January 8, 2022), C.3. View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "What Ernest Shackleton Has In Common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk." Boston Globe (May 12, 2016). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street." Wall Street Journal (June 1, 2016). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "We've Gotten Better at Diversity. Now the Challenge Is Inclusion." Washington Post (May 19, 2017). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "Isolationism Is Killing the American Dream: Effective Global Leadership Requires Generosity, Inspiration and Openness." Financial Times (July 31, 2017). View Details
- Nohria, Nitin. "The Lines That Divide America." The Atlantic (website) (December 2, 2017). View Details
- Research Summary
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The conduct of doctors is guided by the Hippocratic Oath, which provides a normative framework that shapes their identity and orientation towards society. In light of the diminished public trust in business managers, is it time for management to embrace its own hippocratic oath, that would spell out a common understanding of their role in society and the conduct expected of them? Would such an oath be useful? What would be the content of such an oath? How would it get institutionalized (become accepted and taken for granted)? How would it be enforced? These are the questions that animate this line of research.
Rakesh Khurana and I have been writing about making management a profession and the importance of such an oath. HBS students have now taken the lead in this area. See the oath they have formulated and its signatories here. Read about it in Wikipedia, too!
What can we learn from the great business leaders of the 20th century? To answer this question, we have assembled a unique database of 1000 American business leaders, each of whom has left an important legacy. Some of the initial insights we are gleaning from this database is that there is no single characteristic that defines great business leaders. There are many paths to success. We also find that leadership is context-sensitive; to be an effective leader in one era may be quite different from being an effective leader in another. This leads us to conclude that leaders need to have contextual intelligence--they must be able to sense changing contextual circumstances and the business opportunities and challenges they present.Recent advances in biological sciences provide great insights into the workings of the human brain and thereby into human nature. Drawing upon this research, my colleague Paul Lawrence and I propose a neo-Darwinian theory of human motivation based on four basic human drives that stem from our common evolutionary heritage as a species. These drives are: D1: the drive to Acquire; D2: the drive to Bond; D3: the drive to Comprehend or make sense of the world; and D4: the drive to Defend. We are now trying to test this theory through experimental and survey research. We are also searching for ways to test the theory more directly using the latest brain imaging technology..Based on a systematic examination of over 200 management practices that have been hypothesized to influence corporate performance, we identify eight management practices that appear to be the most robust drivers of long term corporate success. We are now trying to test if these fundamental drivers are recognized by investment analysts and if they can prospectively help us better predict future corporate performance.Political and economic reforms in India, which started in 1992, have led to a dramatic transformation of Indian companies. The first decade of this transformation focused on improving operational efficiency to rival world class competitors. Having proved to themselves that they can survive in a globally competitive arena, Indian companies are looking to the future with a new optimism. Their goals are now to unleash the latent demand in the Indian market (both in the burgeoning middle class and the huge pool at the bottom of the pyramid). Equally, Indian firms are looking to grow abroad, as the wave of recent global acquisitions attests. This research project aims to understand this new phase of globalization and corporate transformation in IndiaOne of the most significant dimensions of the current wave of globalization is the globalization of human capital. Whether it is low cost, skilled manufacturing workers in China, software and customer service professionals in India, or highly skilled employees in Eastern Europe, companies now have the ability to access new pools of human capital across the globe that can have a profound influence on their strategy and structure. The availability of a global pool of human capital also presents new challenges on how firms should organize themselves to take advantage of this opportunity. This research project aims to examine the evolving human capital strategies of firms from different parts of the world to study how they are responding to this important dimension of globalization. One aspect we are especially interested in studying is the mobility of talent across national boundaries within a company and the circumstances in which such mobility works more or less well. - Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2018 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review for "How Do CEOs Manage Their Time?" (July–August 2018) with Michael Porter.Winner of the 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers Best Article Award for "How to Build Collaborative Advantage" (with Morten T. Hansen, MIT Sloan Management Review, fall 2004).
- Areas of Interest
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- business transformation
- general management
- globalization
- leadership
- motivation
- alliances
- business history
- careers
- cognition
- competitive advantage
- corporate accountability
- corporate culture
- corporate governance
- corporate social responsibility
- corporate strategy
- corporate values/value systems
- diversification
- diversity
- economic sociology
- emerging markets
- emotions
- entrepreneurship
- ethics
- evolutionary theory
- happiness
- human resource management
- industry evolution
- innovation
- international business
- knowledge management
- large-scale enterprise
- leading change
- management processes
- management styles
- managerial skills
- managing growth
- managing innovation
- mentoring
- mergers and acquisitions
- moral leadership
- network organizations
- networks
- nonprofit
- organizational behavior
- organizational change and transformation
- organizational design
- organizational development
- organizational management
- organizational strategy
- organizational structure
- performance management
- performance measurement
- political economy
- power and influence
- professional service firms
- professionalism
- relationships
- self-organizing systems
- shareholder value
- social interactions
- strategic change
- strategy
- strategy formulation
- strategy implementation
- structure of the firm
- technological change
- technological innovation
- top management teams
- trust
- value creation
- venture creation/development
- work environment
- accounting industry
- arts
- biotechnology
- emerging market private equity
- energy
- executive search
- financial services
- green technology
- health care
- high technology
- industrial goods
- information technology industry
- infrastructure industry
- investment banking industry
- legal services
- management consulting
- manufacturing
- oil ＆ gas
- petroleum
- pharmaceuticals
- professional services
- Asia
- India
- North America
- United Kingdom
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