RAKESH KHURANA
Rakesh Khurana is a Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior area at the Harvard Business School.
He teaches a doctoral seminar on management and markets and the board of directors and corporate governance in the MBA programme.
Khurana received his BS from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his AM (Sociology) and PhD in Organization Behavior from Harvard University.
Prior to attending graduate school, he worked as a founding member of Cambridge Technology Partners in sales and marketing.
His book on the CEO labour market, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs was published in October, 2002.
Khurana's work on the deficiencies of the CEO labor market and the emergence of the charismatic CEO succession model is regularly featured by the general media such as: Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post, CNBC, and The Economist.
His From Higher Aims to Hired Hands received the American Sociological Association's Max Weber Book Award in 2008 for most outstanding contribution to scholarship in the past two years.
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