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  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

reason–people tend to form brand preferences when they’re young. Young consumers who are alienated by a perception of corporate support for Trump might be lost for a lifetime, not just an administration. “A company that is seen as... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 31 Oct 2014
  • Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

the United States. In the absence of having to be on alert for treating infectious diseases, American hospitals have let their guard down and their skills lapse. Partisan politics has exacerbated the problem by leaving the nation in the... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health
  • 06 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

it needs to go. The metaphor also hints at the agility of a group that doesn't have to wait for and then respond to a command from the front. That kind of agility is more likely to be developed by a group when a leader conceives of her... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda leads off his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, with the results of social science research that executives may wish not to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 10 Feb 2014
  • HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

the required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (commonly known as LEAD), which focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of the enterprise. The Elements Of The Case Click on image to enlarge... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created View Details
  • September 2009
  • Article

Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms

By: Gautam Ahuja, Francisco Polidoro Jr. and Will Mitchell
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational... View Details
Keywords: Interorganizational Networks; Interfirm Collaboration; Embeddedness; Networks; Joint Ventures; Alliances
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  • 29 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

origins of one of the most successful companies on the planet, but are also a commentary on the origins of any invention. "Anytime you invent something, you have really invented two things—the thing itself, and an idea," says Harvard Business School visiting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • September 2007
  • Book Review

Book Review of 'Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliation, and Other Relational Assets,' by Ranjay Gulati

By: Gautam Ahuja
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  • March 2002
  • Book Review

Book Review of 'Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues,' edited by David Faulkner and Mark de Rond

By: Gautam Ahuja
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  • 2012
  • Book

Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

By: Gautam Mukunda
Will your next leader be insignificant—or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long been the subject of debate. Are they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Outcome or Result; Power and Influence
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  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

  Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Teaching Interest

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Professor Mukunda teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD.)  This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.

The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context... View Details

  • 06 Mar 2006
  • What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

choice of resisting or leaving, as we will be inevitably be the next victims of the repressive policies we did not confront but ended up supporting by complying." Some offered more highly-textured advice. Saurabh View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945-e-026 September 2014 Journal of Financial Economics The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Article

We Cannot Go On: Disruptive Innovation and the First World War Royal Navy

By: Gautam Mukunda
Insights from Disruptive Innovation theory (DI) are often used in the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of national security policy. DI explains why successful companies are sometimes defeated by new competitors with relatively unsophisticated products.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; History; National Security; Framework; Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Machinery and Machining; Disruptive Innovation; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry
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  • November 2012 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products

By: Gautam Mukunda and Thomas J. DeLong
Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and charged with the task of shutting down the division while minimizing the government's losses. AIGFP's failed trades had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • May 2017
  • Case

Fresh to Table

By: Gautam Mukunda and Brooks C. Holtom
After the contentious firing of an office manager, the leadership at Fresh to Table, a software-as-a-service provider for luxury hotels and restaurants, make an unpleasant discovery. While reviewing the office manager's internal electronic communications, company... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Resignation and Termination; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Leadership
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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

they made by history, or do they make it? In Indispensable, Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda offers an enticingly fresh look at how and when individual leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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