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Times, January 23, 2008; Adrienne Gaffney, “Politics and Power: Getting to Know Klaus Schwab, the Man Behind Davos,” Vanity Fair, January 30, 2009.

9. Whitney, “Political and Corporate Elite Soak Up Big Ideas at Davos.”


6. Building Efficient and Effective Social Networks

1. Nicole Tempest and Kathleen McGinn, “Heidi Roizen,” Harvard Business School Case no. 9-800-228, September 11, 2000.

2. Hans-Georg Wolff and Klaus Moser, “Effects of Networking on Career Success: A Longitudinal Study,” Journal of Applied Psychology 94 (2009): 196–197.

3. Ibid., 198.

4. See, for example, M. L. Forret and T. W. Dougherty, “Networking Behaviors and Career Outcomes: Differences for Men and Women?” Journal of Organizational Behavior 25 (2004): 419–437; P. H. Langford, “Importance of Relationship Management for the Career Success of Australian Managers,” Australian Journal of Psychology 52 (2000): 163–168.

5. Wolff and Moser, “Effects of Networking,” 196–206.

6. Ronald S. Burt and Don Ronchi, “Teaching Executives to See Social Capital: Results from a Field Experiment,” Social Science Research 36 (2007): 1158.

7. Mark S. Granovetter, Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974).

8. Mark S. Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78 (1973): 1360–1380.

9. Joel M. Podolny, “A Status-Based Model of Market Competition,” American Journal of Sociology 98 (1993): 829–872.

10. For a review of this literature, see, for instance, Katherine J. Klein, Beng-Chong Lim, Jessica L. Saltz, and David M. Mayer, “How Do They Get There? An Examination of the Antecedents of Centrality in Team Networks,” Academy of Management Journal 47 (2004): 952–963.

11. Daniel J. Brass, “Being in the Right Place: A Structural Analysis of Individual Influence in an Organization,” Administrative Science Quarterly 29 (1984): 532.

12. Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (New York: Summit Books, 1983).

13. See, for instance, Ronald S. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992); and Ronald S. Burt, Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

14. Ronald S. Burt, “Secondhand Brokerage: Evidence on the Importance of Local Structure for Managers, Bankers, and Analysts,” Academy of Management Journal 50 (2007): 119–148.

15. See Morten T. Hansen, Joel M. Podolny, and Jeffrey Pfeffer, “So Many Ties, So Little Time: A Task Contingency Perspective on Corporate Social Capital in Organizations,” in S. Gabbay and R. Leenders, eds., Research in the Sociology of Organizations, vol. 18 (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001), 21–57; Morten Hansen, “The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge Across Organizational Subunits,” Administrative Science Quarterly 44 (1999): 82–111.


7. Acting and Speaking with Power

1. “Oliver North, Businessman? Many Bosses Say That He’s Their Kind of Employee,” Wall Street Journal, July 14, 1987.

2. Anthony DePalma, “Stanford President at Brunt of Storm,” New York Times, May 10, 1991.

3. “Stanford, Government Agree to Settle Dispute over Research Costs,” Stanford University News Service News Release, October 18, 1994.

4. Harriet Rubin, “Shall I Compare Thee to an Andy Grove?” Strategy+ Business no. 49 (Winter 2007): 26–31.

5. Much of the information on Rubenstein comes from Wikipedia and from Stephanie Rosenbloom, “Calling All Alpha Kitties,” New York Times, October 4, 2007.

6. John Helyar, “Playing Ball: How Peter Ueberroth Led the Major Leagues in the ‘Collusion Era,’” Wall Street Journal, May 20, 1991.

7. From the transcript of a talk given by Andy Grove at a Harvard Business School publishing conference, Cupertino, California, October 3, 2002.

8. Rubin, “Shall I Compare Thee to an Andy Grove?”

9. Sigal G. Barsade, “The Ripple Effect: Emotional Contagion and Its Influence on Group Behavior,” Administrative

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