News World Know Rakesh Khurana, the new Dean of Harvard College

Know Rakesh Khurana, the new Dean of Harvard College

New Delhi: Indian origin professor Rakesh Khurana has been appointed dean of the Harvard College. Presently Khurana is serving as Bower professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School (HBS) and master of Cabot House



The author and editor of four books and many articles, Khurana is probably best known for Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs (2002) and his related academic and managerial articles on the problems associated with charismatic leadership.

His second book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (2007) raised fundamental questions about the effectiveness of business education.

The book received the Max Weber prize from the American Sociological Association's Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section.  

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