Geoffrey Love and Nitin Nohria, two economists, studied downsizing at Fortune 100 companies during 1977-93.
Mr Khurana and a colleague, Nitin Nohria, have been among the few faculty members to encourage Mr Anderson's campaign.
Under Dean Nitin Nohria, who became the dean of HBS two years ago, the internationalism of HBS has taken on a new sense of urgency.
Implicit in this argument is a deep criticism of the MBA, a degree that Messrs Khurana and Nohria teach, and which many of today's failing managers hold.
Long before he became dean, Mr Nohria lamented the failure of business schools to fulfil their mission of turning management into a profession similar to law or medicine.
In the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, author Nitin Nohria points to research findings that 60% of women felt excluded from networking opportunities compared with 4% of men.
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.
The student oath is part of a larger effort to turn management from a trade into a profession a crusade that Messrs Khurana and Nohria proposed in a much-discussed article last October in the Harvard Business Review.
For now, Nohria seems to be delivering.
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In the past 10 years, research at the six international research centers of the Harvard Business School have grown ten-fold, and the new dean, Indian-born Nitin Nohria, intends to increase the number of international research centers in the years to come.
Messrs Khurana and Nohria propose that management jobs be classified according to the amount of professional training required in order to allow the market to make clear the value of such training, but it is hard to imagine the traditional entrepreneur educated in the university of life going out of fashion.
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