Nohria, Nitin - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2015 (Revised July 2025)
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Ethical Analysis: Situation versus Character

By: Nitin Nohria, Sandra J. Sucher, Joseph Badaracco, Edward H. Chang and Bridget Gurtler

When we think of human behavior, especially from a moral perspective, we often rely on explanations based on character. We think that good decisions and responsible behavior require people with integrity and strong character and that immoral behavior originates within... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence; Situation or Environment; Values and Beliefs; Social Psychology

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10 Jul 2015
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What Are You Reading This Summer?

February 2003
Tutorial

Pre-Money / Post-Money Tutorial

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Nitin Nohria, Michael J. Roberts, Arleen Ahearn-Cavanaugh and Sal Darji

An online, interactive tutorial that addresses issues surrounding entrepreneurial valuations. Topics include: the difference between an implied and a "bottom-up" valuation; the difference between pre-money and post-money valuations; the calculation of pre-money and... View Details

Keywords: Money

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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

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

classroom represents the latest step in a two-decades-long journey that could be called “Building a Global Curriculum at HBS.” What began on a modest scale in the mid-1990s has more recently, under Dean Nitin View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership Authors:Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella Publication:New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Publisher's Book Abstract Entrepreneurs, Managers,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

In Study 2 we examined whether the sequential order of the integration condition matters. In line with our prediction, we found that integration worked best when unconscious thought followed conscious thought. Teaching Leadership: Advancing the Field Authors:Scott... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Commencement 2018 Address | About

Commencement 2018 Address Play Video duration: 16:15 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 24 May 2018 Class of 2018, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

(video) When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So discovered HBS professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues Ashish... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

perspectives or lenses: the strategic perspective, the organizational perspective, and the individual perspective. Book Excerpt: "herb Kelleher At Southwest Airlines" by Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

development of a case series on Great Business Leadership, and is the basis of another book being shepherded by Professor Nitin Nohria, Research Associate Laura Singleton, and me. This book looks... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Commencement 2020 Address | About

Commencement 2020 Address Play Video duration: 13:29 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, May 28, 2020 Class of 2020, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: In the nearly... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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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 aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

Commencement 2016 Address Play Video duration: 14:32 Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2016 Class of 2016, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good... View Details

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Commencement 2011 Address | About

Commencement 2011 Address Remarks as prepared by Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2011 The HBS class of 2011, friends and family, and members of the HBS community. Good afternoon, and welcome! I will always enjoy a... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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James McNerney Jr.

McNerney: It’s all about being globally competitive and creating U.S. jobs. Illustration by Andy Friedman Related Links The Path to Economic Revival Making Their Way Squawk Box at HBS - Jim McNerney, Dean Nitin View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

Commencement 2015 Address Play Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 28 May 2015 Class of 2015, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good afternoon and welcome. Every... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

evolving into the future? Chris Cobb (MBA 1992), Miami, Florida Nitin Nohria: Many of us have a perspective that HBS exists—as you say, philosophically and physically—in splendid isolation from the rest of Harvard, with the river forming... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

Commencement 2017 Address Play Video duration: 14:46 As prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 25 May 2017 Class of 2017, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community: Good afternoon and... View Details

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