by Nitin Nohria - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is the second in a trilogy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

documented the importance of persuasion in his 1992 book Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management. Nohria believes effective leaders are masters of the classical elements of rhetoric, as outlined View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

battle." In introductory comments, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria expressed the same sentiment. "When business decides to tackle these issues, productive things can happen," View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Legacies. Professor Nitin Nohria and I began to create the database approximately three years ago as part of an effort to understand historical business leadership patterns. Our initial goal was to develop a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

School: 1962-2012," the case delves into the experiences of alumnae and alumni over the past 50 years, both inside and outside the classroom, as Dean Nitin Nohria considers what HBS might be like 10... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

Business Management a Profession?" In it, Harvard Business School colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and their research associate, Daniel Penrice, propose that it comes up short on several... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

against Black citizens and resulting Black Lives Matter marches and protests. It prompted Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria to send an email (which quickly became public knowledge) to faculty, staff,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

School professors Tarun Khanna, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria refer to as contextual intelligence. Only with an understanding of the most salient information or the most influential players in a given... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

evolved in management by gender bias with skills and talents so alien to their male counterparts that they are uniquely powerful in an information world?" Other questions come to mind. Do we continue to overstate the portability of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

learned, take action based upon these lessons, then adapt and iterate and react to what they observed." Enter FIELD. First proposed at the end of 2010, the idea was so enthusiastically embraced by incoming Dean View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

epiphany, Narayanan approached HBS Dean Nitin Nohria about using a similar technique to teach accounting concepts. Mastery Of Business Fundamentals Under the umbrella of HBX, Harvard Business School's online... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

presented in the Harvard Business Review article "Are Leaders Portable?" co-written with Andrew N. McLean and Nitin Nohria. The records of former GE general managers demonstrate that even skills widely perceived as generalizable... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Manage Time By: Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria Abstract—In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

May 20, 2010
Article

Leaders’ Blindspots Undermine Their Global Language Policies

By: Tsedal Neeley

Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Diversity

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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 their thoughts with... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

MBA program in 1963. By 2013, the number of women in the MBA classroom had reached 40%. The 50th anniversary of women's enrollment in the traditional MBA program gave HBS Dean Nitin View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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