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| About the book |
The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in the world," these same schools produce hardly any serious scholarship or research to advance our understanding of leadership. To fill this void, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana have invited leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of what we know about leadership and to set an agenda for future research. Based on a Harvard Business School Centennial Colloquium, this edited volume brings together the most important scholars from fields as diverse as psychology, sociology, economics, and history to shape the academic discipline of leadership. |
| About the authors |
Rakesh Khurana is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of numerous important articles and books in the areas of leadership and management. |
| Table of contents |
Section I: The Impact of Leadership: Performance and Meaning 1: Advancing Leadership Theory & Practice Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria 2: When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership? Noam Wasserman (Harvard University), Nitin Nohria, and Bharat Anand (Harvard Business School) 3: Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership Joel Podolny (Yale School of Management), Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School), and Marya Hill-Popper (Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations) 4: What Is This Thing Called Leadership? Richard Hackman (Harvard University) Section II: The Theory of Leadership: Personal Attributes, Functions and Relationships Chapters that take stock of different disciplinary perspectives on leadership and articulate an agenda for future research 5: Leadership through an Organization Behavior Lens: A Look at the Last Half-Century of Research Mary Ann Glynn and Rich DeJordy (Boston College) 6: Psychological Perspectives on Leadership Jennifer A. Chatman and Jessica A. Kennedy (University of California, Berkeley) 7: A Clinical Approach to the Dynamics of Leadership and Executive Transformation Manfred Kets de Vries and Elisabet Engellau (INSEAD) 8: Classical Sociological Approaches to the Study of Leadership Mauro F. Guillen (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 9: Economists? Perspective on Leadership Patrick Bolton (Columbia), Markus K. Brunnermeier (Columbia), and Laura Veldkamp (NYU) 10: An Economic Perspective on Leadership Mark. A. Zupan (University of Rochester) 11: Leadership and History Walter A. Friedman (Harvard Business School) 12: Power and Leadership Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) Section III: The Variability of Leadership: What?s Core and Contingent Chapters exploring similarities and differences in leadership across task, culture, and identity 13. Leadership and Cultural Context: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination Based on Project GLOBE Javidan, Mansour (Thunderbird Business School), Peter W. Dorfman (New Mexico State University), Jon Paul Howell (New Mexico State University), and Paul J. Hanges (University of Maryland) 14. Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges Robin J. Ely (Harvard Business School) and Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford Law School) 15. A Contingency Theory of Leadership Jay Lorsch (Harvard Business School) Section IV: The Practice of Leadership: Agency and Constraint Chapters on the multiple facets of leadership practice 16: What is Leadership? The CEO?s Role in Large, Complex Organizations Michael E Porter (Harvard University) and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School) 17: What Makes Teams of Leaders Leadable? Ruth Wagerman and Richard Hackman (Harvard University) 18: Decision Making as Leadership Foundation Michael Useem (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 19: Leading Change: Leadership, Organization and Social Movements Marshall Ganz (Harvard Kennedy School of Government) 20: Leadership in a Globalizing World Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School) 21: Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation Linda A. Hill (Harvard Business School), Maurizio Travaglini (Architects of Group Genius), Greg Brandeau (Pixar Animation Studios), and Emily Stecker (Harvard Business School) Section V: The Development of Leaders: Knowing, Doing and Being Chapters on the development of leaders 22: Identity-Based Leader Development Herminia Ibarra (INSEAD), Scott Snook (Harvard Business School), and Laura Guillen Ramo (INSEAD) 23: The Experience Conundrum Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (University of Southern California) 24: Leadership Development Interventions: Ensuring a Return on the Investment Jay A Conger (Claremont McKenna College) 25: Pursuing Authentic Leadership Development Bruce J. Avolio (Gallup Leadership Institute) 26: Adult Development and Organizational Leadership Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahley (Harvard Education School) |
