Rakesh Khurana
| Rakesh Khurana | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Khurana at Harvard in 2015 | |
| Born | November 22, 1967 |
| Education |
Cornell University (B.S.) Harvard University (A.M / Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Dean of Harvard College |
| Years active | 1998–present |
Rakesh Khurana (born November 22, 1967, in India) is an Indian-American educator. He is a professor of sociology at Harvard University, Faculty Dean of Cabot House and dean of Harvard College.[1][2]
Early life and education
Rakesh was born in India and was raised in Queens, New York.[3] He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University,[1] his A.M (Sociology) from Harvard in 1997 and his PhD in organizational behavior from Harvard's Ph.D. program in 1998.[1]
Career
Khurana is a founding team member of Cambridge Technology Partners and from 1998 to 2000 he taught at MIT.[1] Khurana is the author of the book, Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs and related academic and managerial articles on the pitfalls of charismatic leadership. In 2007 he published 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 (Princeton University Press). The book received the Max Weber prize from the American Sociological Association's Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section and was the Winner of the 2009 Gold Medal Axiom Business Book Award in Career, Jenkins Group, Inc. and the Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management, Association of American Publishers and the Finalist for the George R. Terry Award from the Academy of Management.
He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice (2010), published by Harvard Business School Press[4] and the The Handbook for Teaching Leadership: Knowing, Doing and Being, (2012), published by Sage Publications.[5]
Dean of Harvard College
In July 2014 he became dean of a college at Harvard.[3] In 2016, the online news service, Free Beacon, reported that according to alumni members of controversial all-male campus clubs, "Khurana threatened in closed-door meetings to make students who joined the clubs subject to expulsion."[6]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Indo-American Rakesh Khurana is new Dean of Harvard College". IANS. Biharprabha News. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
- ↑ "Rakesh and Stephanie Khurana - Cabot House - People". Cabot House at Harvard.
- 1 2 "A dream, ‘quietly imagined,’ come true". Harvard Gazette.
- ↑ "Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice". Harvard Business School Press.
- ↑ "The Handbook for Teaching Leadership - SAGE Publications Inc". Sage Publications.
- ↑ "Task Force Proposes Harvard Expel Students In All-Male Clubs". Washington Free Beacon.
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