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4 unusual facts about Rakesh Khurana


MBA Oath

HBS Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria are working with the World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute to create an MBA Oath that might be used globally.

Rakesh Khurana, a professor at HBS, traces the evolution of the management degree in his 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, 2007).

Rakesh Khurana

He worked for three years as a founding team member of Cambridge Technology Partners before starting graduate school in 1994.

After finishing his doctorate, Rakesh taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management.


Global Peter Drucker Forum

Speakers at the conference included the philosopher Charles Handy, Harvard professor Rakesh Khurana, daughter of the late C.K. Prahalad and author Deepa Prahalad, director and founder of the Legatum Centre at MIT Iqbal Quadir, Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist.


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