Rakesh Khurana, rank #33
The fourth Indian on the elite list of world's top 50 management gurus, Rakesh Khurana, is Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organisational Behavior area at Harvard Business School. Khurana is ranked 33rd in the list.
His current research throws up unique insights into the CEO talent market, and indeed challenges many of the myths that high-paid CEOs put out about the connection between pay and performance.
Rakesh Khurana is an associate professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. He received his degrees in organisational behavior from Harvard's PhD programme in 1998, his AM (Sociology) from Harvard in 1997, and his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1990.
He worked for three years as a founding team member of Cambridge Technology Partners before starting graduate school in 1994. After finishing his doctorate, he taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
In 2000, he accepted an appointment at the Harvard Business School. His research focusses on managerial labour markets.
He has written one book -- Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs.
Photogrpah: The Harvard Business School. (Inset) Rakesh Khurana.
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