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The Multipolar MBA

To Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor known for his histories of management knowledge, business schools are facing a crisis of global irrelevance.

Content: Prospective MBA Content | Authors: Rakesh Khurana, William J. Holstein | Source: strategy+business | Subject: About the MBA Degree

What the Brightest Scholars Say about Leadership

As a subject of scholarly inquiry, leadership—and who leaders are, what makes them tick, how they affect others—has been neglected for decades. The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Harvard Business School’s Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, brings together some of the best minds on this important subject. Q&A with Khurana, plus book excerpt.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice

The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to ‘develop leaders who make a difference in the world’, these same schools produce hardly any serious scholarship or research to advance our understanding of leadership. To fill this void, Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana have invited leading … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Authors: Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Subject: Leadership

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

Managers want the status of professionals, but not all managers want the constraints that go along with professions. Why? For more than 100 years, business education at the top universities has been searching for its soul. HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, author of a new book, says business school education is at a turning point.

Content: Article | Authors: Martha Lagace, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Education, MBA Related | Industry: Education / Training

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Manage

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of … [ Read more ]

Content: Book | Author: Rakesh Khurana | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Education / Training

The Compensation Game

Do CEOs deserve “star” compensation? The idea that CEO pay is driven by the invisible hand of market forces is a myth from which chief executives have long benefited, say Harvard professors Lucian Bebchuk and Rakesh Khurana.

Content: Article | Authors: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Corporate Governance

Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It

Traditionally, corporate boards have left leadership planning and development up to their CEOs and human resources departments primarily because they don’t perceive that a lack of leadership development in their companies poses the same kind of threat that accounting blunders or missed earnings do. This article explains what makes a successful leadership development program, based on their research over the past few years with companies … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Jeffrey M. Cohn, Laura Reeves, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

Is Business Management a Profession?

If management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys.

Content: Article | Authors: Daniel Penrice, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)