Nitin Nohria - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An... View Details

2001
Book

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices

By: Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Judgments

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December 2005
Article

Reducing Slack: The Performance Consequences of Downsizing by Large Industrial Firms, 1977-93

By: E. Geoffrey Love and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Business Ventures; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Performance; Outcome or Result

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October 1995
Supplement

DISC (A-1) (Abridged)

By: Nitin Nohria and Scott A. Snook

Supplements the (A)(Abridged) case. View Details

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July 1994
Supplement

Cordoba Corp.: George Pla; Maria Mehranian, Video

By: Jeffrey L. Bradach and Nitin Nohria

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1996
Working Paper

From Structure to Structuring: A Pragmatic Perspective on Organizational Design

By: Nitin Nohria and James D. Berkley

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2008
Working Paper

Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Nitin Nohria

This paper develops an exchange-network perspective on corporate diversification and proposes two measures of corporate scope: structural closure and structural exposure. Structural closure focuses on exchanges of goods and services inside the firm... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Transactions; Diversification; Boundaries; Valuation

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2003
Other Unpublished Work

Organizing Multinational Companies: Building a Collaborative Advantage

By: Morten T. Hansen and Nitin Nohria

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure

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October 1995
Case

DISK (A)

By: Nitin Nohria and Scott A. Snook

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October 1995
Case

DISC (A) (Abridged)

By: Nitin Nohria and Scott A. Snook

Follows the development and implementation of fundamental organizational change in a large government bureaucracy. The case is set in the Defense Industrial Supply Center (DISC) and follows two senior leaders as they grapple with issues of fundamental change in a... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; National Security; Leadership Style

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October 1993 (Revised June 1995)
Case

Cordoba Corp. (A)

By: Jeffrey L. Bradach and Nitin Nohria

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1994
Working Paper

The Sidekick Effect: Mentoring Relationships and the Development of Social Capital

By: Monica C. Higgins and Nitin Nohria

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1996
Working Paper

Focus and Diversification: The Effects of Changes in the Scope of Large Industrial Corporations

By: Nitin Nohria and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

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01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

School’s Leadership Initiative. But there’s another way to assess business success, as found in the pages of Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership. Mayo (MBA ’88) is the book’s coauthor, with HBS professor View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

30 Nov 2017
News

SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, a wide cross-section of faculty, alumni, students, and friends from across the University were joined by the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

students and junior faculty working in the area of organization design, as well as more senior contributors to the field. Their goal was to define and discuss the open research questions that trace their beginnings back to Lawrence and Lorsch’s seminal work. HBS... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information