Rakesh Khurana: " Searching for a Corporate Saviour: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs", Princeton University Press, 2002.

ECONOMIST: Acknowledgments

Roughly the reverse of Mr Mintzberg's complaint is the criticism advanced by Rakesh Khurana of Harvard Business School, who is writing a book on why management has failed to develop as a profession.

ECONOMIST: Business schools

The popularity of the oath might also reflect a broader change, with huge implications not just for business education but for management as a whole, says Rakesh Khurana, a professor at Harvard Business School.

ECONOMIST: A Hippocratic oath for managers

They shared the idea with two of their professors, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and found that the ethos of management-as-profession had been a founding concept of the first MBA course at HBS in 1908.

CNN: MBA students pledge to serve the greater good

Whether this is a proper focus for business education is being openly challenged by thought leaders such as Harvard's Clayton Christensen, whose books on innovation include The Innovator's Dilemma, and Rakesh Khurana, also of Harvard, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession.

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