Business Renaissance Man

Nitin Nohria is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. His research centers on leadership, corporate accountability, and organizational change. Co-author of ten books, his most recent, What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success (Harper Business, 2003) is the culmination of a systematic large-scale study of the management practices that create business winners. The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation (Jossey-Bass, 1997), won the 1998 George R. Terry Award, given by the Academy of Management, for the best book written by an academy member.

Nitin’s other books include:

• Master Passions: The Interplay of Anxiety, Ambition, and Envy, co-authored with Mihnea Moldoveanu, (MIT Press, 2002)
• Changing Fortunes: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Corporation, co-authored with Davis Dwyer and Fred Dalzell, Jr. (Wiley, 2002)
• Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, co-authored with Paul R. Lawrence, (Jossey-Bass, 2001)
• The Arc of Ambition: Defining the Leadership Journey (Perseus Books, 2000).

He has written articles for such publications as the Harvard Business Review, the Strategic Management Journal and the Sloan Management Review.  He is frequently interviewed by such media as Business Week, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal as well as ABC, CNN, and NPR. 

Nitin educates and entertains audiences worldwide with his presentations on business and organizational change, evolutionary psychology and business leadership and ambition.