Rakesh Khurana: 2 books
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
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...
Searching for a Corporate Savior
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true...