Rakesh Khurana became Danoff Dean of Harvard College on July 1, 2014. In 2000, Khurana was appointed to the Harvard Business School faculty, and was named the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership and Development in 2008. Khurana has been recognized for his commitment to pedagogy, twice earning the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008, 2012) and being nominated in 2013 for the Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising. He has also co-edited “The Handbook for Leadership Theory and Practice” (2010) and “The Handbook for Teaching Leadership” (2012), seminal texts on leadership theory and pedagogical practice. Khurana received his B.S. from Cornell University, and began graduate studies at Harvard in 1993, earning his Ph.D. in 1998 through a joint program between Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). He and his wife, Stephanie (M.B.A., M.P.P.’96), were Faculty Deans of Cabot House from 2010-2020.