Rakesh Khurana

Colleagues at Xfund

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Alex Pentland

Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at MIT at Xfund

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Andrew Williamson

Managing Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital at Xfund

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Bob Pozen

Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management at Xfund

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Brandon Farwell

General Partner at Xfund

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Cherry Murray

Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy and Professor of Physics, Harvard University at Xfund

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Deborah Spar

Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School at Xfund

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Elise Bates

Senior Director of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and HBS Foundry, Harvard Business School at Xfund

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Habib Haddad

Managing Partner at The E14 Fund

Frequently asked questions

Who is Rakesh Khurana?

Rakesh Khurana is an Advisor to Xfund and the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, as well as a Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches organizational behavior, leadership, and the sociology of organizations. He taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management from 1998 to 2000, joined Harvard Business School's faculty in 2000, and served as Dean of Harvard College from 2014 to 2025. He holds an S.B. from Cornell University and an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard.

Where does Rakesh Khurana work?

Rakesh Khurana is Advisor at Xfund.

Where did Rakesh Khurana go to school?

Rakesh Khurana studied at Harvard University (PhD, Organizational Behavior/Sociology); Harvard University (Masters, Sociology); Cornell University (B.S., Industrial Labor Relations).