HANDBOOK OF
            LEADERSHIP
           THEORY AND
                PRACTICE
                An HBS Centennial Colloquium on
                      Advancing Leadership
                          EDITED BY
                      Nitin Nohria
                   Rakesh Khurana
                       Harvard Business Press
                      BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
                          CONTENTS
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                          Acknowledgments xii
                            SECTION ONE
         THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP: PERFORMANCE AND MEANING
                              Chapter 1
                  Advancing Leadership Theory and Practice
                Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School)
                                 3
                              Chapter 2
            When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities
                        View of CEO Leadership
           Noam Wdsserman, Bharat Anand, and Nitin Nohria (Harvard Business School)
                                27
                               Chapter 3
                    Revisiting the Meaning of Leadership
            JoelM. Podolny (Apple, Inc.), Rakesh Khurana (Harvard Business School), and
              Mary a L. Besharov (Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations)
                                65
                               Chapter 4
                   What Is This Thing Called Leadership?
                     J. Richard Hackman (Harvard University)
                                107
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                   SECTION TWO
     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
                    Chapter 5
     Leadership Through an Organization Behavior Lens: A Look at the
              Last Half-Century of Research
            Mary Ann Glynn and Rich Dejordy (Boston College)
                     119
                    Chapter 6
            Psychological Perspectives on Leadership
             Jennifer A. Chatman and Jessica A. Kennedy
               (University of California, Berkeley)
                     159
                    Chapter 7
     A Clinical Approach to the Dynamics of Leadership and Executive
                  Transformation
           Manfred Kets de Fries and Elisabet Engellau (INSEAD)
                     183
                    Chapter 8
          Classical Sociological Approaches to the Study of
                   Leadership
         Mauro E Guillen (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
                     223
                    Chapter 9
            Economists' Perspectives on Leadership
         Patrick Bolton (Columbia University), Markus K. Brunnermeier
             (Princeton University), and Laura Veldkamp
                  (New York University)
                     239
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                            Chapter 10
                  An Economic Perspective on Leadership
                    Mark A. Zupan (University of Rochester)
                             265
                            Chapter 11
                       Leadership and History
                   Walter A. Friedman (Harvard Business School)
                             291
                            Chapter 12
                       Power and Leadership
                Joseph S. Nye, Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
                             305
                         SECTION THREE
          THE VARIABILITY OF LEADERSHIP: WHAT'S CORE AND
                         CONTINGENT
            Chapters exploring similarities and differences in leadership across task,
                         culture, and identity
                            Chapter 13
           Leadership and Cultural Context: A Theoretical and Empirical
                  Examination Based on Project GLOBE
         Mansour Javidan (Thunderbird Business School), Peter W. Dorfrnan (New Mexico State
           University), Jon Paul Howell (New Mexico State University), and PaulJ. Hanges
                        (University of Maryland)
                             335
                            Chapter 14
               Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges
          Robin J. Ely (Harvard Business School) and Deborah L. Rhode (Stanford Law School)
                             377
                            Chapter 15
                   A Contingency Theory of Leadership
                     Jay Lorsch (Harvard Business School)
                             411