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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Rakesh Khurana

Scholar of managerialism, professional elites, and how business ideology colonized institutions beyond the firm.

Why this matters

Khurana traces when leadership becomes a credential class—authority detached from domain judgment.

Works

book

From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession

Khurana, Rakesh. *From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

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