John P. Kotter - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

concluded in his classic study, Good to Great, that among the most important attributes of leaders, people who John Kotter maintains achieve "extremely useful change," was the right mix of humility... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

PhD Investment Strategies By: Malcolm P. Baker & Samuel G. Hanson Former offerings Investment Strategies and Behavioral and Value Investing Investment Management By: Adi Sunderam & Luis M. Viceira HBS, MBA Managing the Financial Firm By:... View Details

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Student Research - Doctoral

By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears , Jay Garg , James J. Choi and David Laibson 01 MAY 2025 | Faculty & Research 2023 Research (pdf) 2023 Research (pdf) 2025 Working Paper Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from Family Foundations... View Details

1985
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Power and Influence: Beyond Formal Authority

By: J. P. Kotter

Keywords: Power and Influence

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

evolve its offerings so that they appeal to radiologists and cardiologists, the largest purchasers of ultrasound systems. March 2014 (Revised December 2014) Case Vision 2020: Takeda and the Vaccine Business By: John A. Quelch and Margaret... View Details

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

People People Faculty Malcolm P. Baker Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He was the Unit Head for finance from... View Details

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

HBS Alumna Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy

pursue a Ph.D. However, she now knew that she likely needed another advanced degree to be a decision maker in an industry like pharma/biotech. Zutshi joined the second-ever cohort of students in the MS/MBA in Engineering Sciences degree run jointly by the Harvard View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Paul Lawrence and Jay Lorsch on organizational integration , sparked the field of Organizational Behavior. Early work by Michael Beer on leading organizational change , Rosabeth Kanter on innovation for productivity , John View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

First Arthur Warga Award for the Best Paper in Fixed Income from The Society for Financial Studies, 2014 Finance Cavalcade, for “Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks” (with John Y. Campbell and Carolin E. Pflueger). 2013... View Details

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

enterprise and foster its growth. [3] Through a partnership with John Wesley Durr in 1862, the brothers expanded their storage capacity and trading business, and Lehman, Durr & Co. soon ranked among the top cotton firms in the area. When... View Details

01 Mar 2021
What Do You Think?

What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

information, creating surprises for top management. That claim was part of the defense used by top management in the Wells Fargo customer fraud scandal. Even academics are loath to probe middle management. A 1993 study about middle management by Jack Gabarro and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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AASU50 - Alumni

Henderson, Jr., MBA 1991 LaDetra J. White, MBA 1992 Kenneth H. Fearn, Jr., MBA 1993 Valerie S. Grant, MBA 1994 Kimberly Corbin, MBA 1995 Jill Pemberton, MBA 1996 Beverly J. Anderson, MBA 1997 Lisa Skeete Tatum, MBA 1998 Brickson E. Diamond, MBA 1999 View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

University Press, 1997, p. 27. John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 37. Lockwood, p. 22. Geoffrey Jones, Elisabeth Köll, and Alexis Gendron,... View Details

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

and the normative orientation of medical professionals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54600 Summer 2018 California Management Review CSR Needs CPR: Corporate Sustainability and Politics By: Lyon, Thomas, Magali A. Delmas, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

son Philip joined the firm as a partner in 1885 and directed Lehman Brothers from 1901 to 1925. While Lehman Brothers increased its number of employees, until the 1920s only male members of the Lehman family could become partners. In 1924, View Details

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

cannot surface: Abjuring rigorous debate about its merits, a youthful president John F. Kennedy essentially rubber-stamped a 1961 plan to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, resulting in one of the biggest U.S. foreign policy fiascoes in... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Health Care Policy at HMS; and Joseph P. Newhouse, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. The key findings from the conference and survey are detailed in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

03 Jul 2008
What Do You Think?

Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

There are a few exceptions. Abraham Zaleznik wrote about "The Dynamics of Subordinacy" more than four decades ago. Fifteen years ago, Jack Gabarro and John Kotter published a piece called... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Economic Association (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 11, 2023.) With Alfaro, Laura, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. The World Management Survey... View Details

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Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business - A Chronicle of the China Trade

and a serious sober part, responsible too, then looking forward to unknown duties & strange scenes, now those duties are familiar. . . . Then not even a clerk now a merchant & a head man of a firm. Truly I am changed.” 9 John Heard,... View Details

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