Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao (born 27 April 1959) is an American academic. He is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the

Stanford Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...

Early life

Rao was born in India. Rao graduated from the

Andhra University Andhra University (IAST: ''Āndhra Vișvakalāpariṣhat'') is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. History King Vikram Deo Verma, the Maharaja of Jeypore was one of the biggest do ...

in 1978 and earned Post-Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1980. He then earned a PhD in 1989 from

Weatherhead School of Management The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead offers programs concentrated in sustainability, design innovation, healthcare, organizational behavior, gl ...

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...

Career

Rao was an assistant professor of Organization & Management at the Emory University's Goizueta Business School from 1989 to 1994, then associate professor from 1995 to 2002 and then tenured professor from 2000 to 2002. He then moved to

Kellogg School of Management The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...

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where he was the Richard L.Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change from 2002 to 2005. He has been with

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since 2005. At Stanford, he is also professor of sociology at School of Humanities and Sciences. He studies collective action within organizations and in markets. His research revolves around scaling up mobilization, innovation, and talent in organizations.

Honors and awards

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Best Seller List for 2014 for Scaling Up Excellence * Best Books of 2014

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, and

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for Scaling Up Excellence * BP Faculty Fellow in Global Management, 2018-2020 * Fellow,

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, 2008 * Fellow of

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, 2007 * W. Richard Scott Distinguished Award for Scholarly Contributions,

, 2005 * Sidney Levy Award For Teaching,

, 2004 * Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, 2004

Editorial Review Boards

American Sociological Review The ''American Sociological Review'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology. It is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the American Sociological Association. It was established in 1936. The editors- ...

, 2012-2015 *

Administrative Science Quarterly ''Administrative Science Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of organizational studies. The journal was established in 1956 and is published by SAGE Publications for the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Manage ...

, 2003-2011, 1996-2002 *

American Journal of Sociology The ''American Journal of Sociology'' is a peer-reviewed bi-monthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews in the field of sociology and related social sciences. It was founded in 1895 as the first journal in its disci ...

, 1999-2003 * Organization Science, 1997-2002. *

Academy of Management Review The ''Academy of Management Review'' (AMR) is a peer-reviewed academic journal on management. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal's 2021 impact factor is 13.865, ranking it 3rd out of 226 journals in the categories "Manageme ...

, 1998-2002 *

Journal of Management Inquiry The ''Journal of Management Inquiry'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of management with an emphasis on qualitative research, inductive reasoning and "non-traditional" research, and thought-provoking ...

, 1996-2002 * Strategic Organization, 2001–present * Organizational Behavior Society, 1997–present * Organization and Innovation Panel,

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

, 2000-2002

Selected bibliography

* Rao, Hayagreeva; Sutton, Robert I. (4 February 2014). ''Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less''. Crown * Rao, Hayagreeva (1 December 2008). ''Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations''. Princeton University Press *Rao, Hayagreeva. "The social construction of reputation: Certification contests, legitimation, and the survival of organizations in the American automobile industry: 1895–1912."

Strategic Management Journal The Strategic Management Society (SMS) is a professional society for the advancement of strategic management. The society consists of nearly 3,000 members representing various backgrounds and perspectives from more than eighty different countries. ...

15.S1 (1994): 29-44. *Bhattacharya, Chitrabhan B., Hayagreeva Rao, and Mary Ann Glynn. "Understanding the bond of identification: An investigation of its correlates among art museum members."

Journal of Marketing The ''Journal of Marketing'' is a bimonthly scholarly journal that publishes peer-reviewed research in marketing. It is published by the American Marketing Association. Established in 1936, It is the fourth-oldest major journal covering marketing ...

59.4 (1995): 46-57. *Rao, Hayagreeva, Philippe Monin, and Rodolphe Durand. "Institutional change in Toque Ville: Nouvelle cuisine as an identity movement in French gastronomy."

108.4 (2003): 795-843. *Rao, Hayagreeva, Calvin Morrill, and Mayer N. Zald. "Power plays: How social movements and collective action create new organizational forms."

Research in Organizational Behavior ''Research in Organizational Behavior'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which publishes research in the field of organizational behavior. It was established in 1979 and is published by Elsevier. The current editors-in-chief are Jack Goncalo ( ...

22 (2000): 237-281.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rao, Haygreeva Living people Indian emigrants to the United States Andhra University alumni XLRI – Xavier School of Management alumni Case Western Reserve University alumni Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty 1959 births