Publications

2012
Chapter

Teaching Leadership: Advancing the Field

By: Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Leadership Development; Teaching

June 2003
Case

Peabody Simpson at the Crossroads

By: Rajiv Lal, Nitin Nohria and Leslie Freeman

Three managing directors at Peabody Simpson had just returned from a firm-wide recruiting event at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Recruitment; Reports; Organizational Design

Educators

2005
Chapter

Management as a Profession

By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Daniel Penrice

Keywords: Management; Practice

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

None of these social networks even existed at the beginning of the decade. Leaders like IBM's Sam Palmisano, PepsiCo's Indra Nooyi, Apple's Steve Jobs, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, Carlson's Marilyn Nelson, and Harvard Business School Dean... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

Nitin Nohria as a graduate student in 1994. To learn the extent to which chief executive turnover affects corporations, they studied the performance of two hundred of the largest U.S. companies before and... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

for society." While you were pondering these questions, several HBS faculty members, including Dean Nitin Nohria, were asked to consider them as well. Their responses were as diverse as yours, often... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

June 2000
Article

The State of the Incubator Marketspace

By: Morten T. Hansen, Jeffrey Berger and Nitin Nohria

February 2009
Article

Suspended in Self-Spun Webs of Significance: A Rhetorical Model of Institutionalization and Institutionally Embedded Agency

By: Sandy Edward Green, Yuan Li and Nitin Nohria

This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to justify a practice at a given point in time. As a process,... View Details

Keywords: Debates; Management Practices and Processes; Trust; Adoption; Theory; United States

2007
Book

Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership

By: Anthony Mayo, Nitin Nohria and Laura G. Singleton

Keywords: Leadership; United States

May 2006
Article

Are Leaders Portable?

By: Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Leadership

2005
Working Paper

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

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

conference featured a practitioner panel of executives who have roles in promoting women. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and keynote speaker Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter also shared... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

and how to measure collaborative success. Several audience members weighed in, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “My real dream is that we should build in Allston a company like Google or Facebook,” View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

shape strategy. We excerpt a portion on advice for new CEOs, written with HBS faculty Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria. 3. Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? Professor Jim Heskett poses this provacative question to HBS Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

July – August 2011
Article

What Factors Drive Analyst Forecasts?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim

A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its future performance. Yet there is little evidence on whether analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Forecasting and Prediction; Industry Growth; Judgments; Performance; Valuation; Price; Quality; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Competency and Skills; Surveys

October 2004
Article

Seven Surprises for New CEOs

By: Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Management

November 2012
Article

What Makes Analysts Say 'Buy'?

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, Nitin Nohria and George Serafeim