Huggy Rao
Organizational behavior professor
Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao is a Stanford professor who studies collective action. He wrote Scaling Up Excellence with Bob Sutton.
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About Huggy Rao
Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao has taught organizational behavior and human resources at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on collective action, and he also wrote Market Rebels, a book about activists and radical innovations. With Bob Sutton, he wrote Scaling Up Excellence, which treats scaling as an organizational skill rather than a rare talent. Rao has won research and teaching awards and has authored over 50 papers and monographs. He often leads workshops and has served as academic director of several Stanford executive programs, including one with Sutton on customer-focused innovation.