Rakesh Khurana, professor of sociology and organizational behavior at Harvard University and Faculty Dean of Cabot House, became Danoff Dean of Harvard College on July 1, 2014.

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).