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.
