by Paul Lawrence - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne conducted an email interview with Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria about their new book, Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices.Silverthorne: How did the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

13 Jun 2024
HBS Conference

Paul R. Lawrence Conference in honor of Michael L. Tushman

31 May 2013
HBS Conference

The Inaugural Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis

Mary W. Lawrence

Lawrence built one of the fastest growing advertising agencies in the 20th century, earning billings of over $100 million in less than five years. She broke the conventional mold of television advertising by... View Details

Keywords: Services

Lawrence M. Giannini

Giannini was head of the largest bank in the world with more than 3.6 million deposit accounts, 150,000 stockholders, and 14,000 employees. Growing Bank of America, Giannini registered an increase in total resources of $80 million and an asset base of $6 billion View Details

Keywords: Finance

Lawrence A. Bossidy

Through a number of sweeping initiatives including the introduction of a total quality management program, Six Sigma, and the reduction of the workforce by 20%, Bossidy turned AlliedSignal around. When Bossidy took over AlliedSignal, the... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Paul A. Gompers

Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details

Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry

17 Apr 2014
HBS Seminar

Paul Healy, Harvard Business School

07 Nov 2011
News

Paul Lawrence, at 89; pioneered study of organizational behavior

Profile

Paul Scharfman

In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Retail

Portrait Project

Paul Yeh

friends and sectionmates research, test-drive, and negotiate better deals on their cars. I have become the car guy on campus. At this crucial juncture in which the automotive manufacturers are asking for government bailouts, I plan to put my experiences and passion to... View Details

February 1992
Supplement

Xerox and Fuji Xerox: Comments by CEO Paul Allaire, Video

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Paul Feghali

Coming to HBS is like Going on a first date with the person you’ve had a crush on for years. What is your most memorable classroom moment? My first cold call. During a case study on a struggling shoe company, my professor started the class View Details

Paul Fireman

By successfully tapping the market for women’s “fashionable” athletic shoes during the nation’s aerobics craze, Fireman took Reebok from $13 million in sales in 1983 to $1.4 billion in sales just five years later. In 1986, Reebok overtook... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Profile

Paul Lenehan

In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to... View Details

12 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Lawrence Summers on Market Capitalism’s Historic Opportunity

Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the... View Details

22 Jan 2007
Working Paper Summaries

“Don’ts" and "Do’s”: Insights from Experience in Mitigating Risks of Western Investors in Post-Communist Countries

Keywords: by Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos & Paul R. Lawrence

Portrait Project

John Paul Andree

teamwork pushes out denial and fear. Thinking the fuel may be freezing, we intentionally overheat the engines in a last-ditch gamble to survive. Our bet pays off and two and half nerve-wracking hours later we limp into Greenland, landing safely. Surrounded View Details

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