Rakesh Khurana

Rakesh Khurana, 2015

Rakesh Khurana (born November 22, 1967 in Punjab ) is an Indian sociologist and professor of leadership development in organizational theory at Harvard Business School .

Life

Khurana studied at Cornell University (Bachelor) until 1990 and worked at Cambridge Technology Partners . He then did his Masters in Sociology and his Ph.D. in organizational theory from Harvard University . He taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management and went to Harvard in 2000. His academic focus is on labor market and elite research .

1997: George S. Dively Award
2007: Association of American Publishers Best Professional / Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management
2008: Charles M. Williams Award
2008: Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association
2012: Charles M. Williams Award

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
as co-editor: The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing, and Being . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2012.
as co-editor: Challenges to Business in the Twenty-First Century . Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011.
as co-editor: Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice . Harvard Business Press, 2010.
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.