Huggy Rao
Hayagreeva (Huggy) Rao is the Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His most recent book, co-authored with Bob Sutton of the School of Engineering at Stanford, is The Friction Project. His prior book also co-authored with Bob Sutton, Scaling Up Excellence, was a Wall Street Journal Best seller and was included in the best business books to read that year by Financial Times, Inc Magazine, Amazon, Forbes and Washington Post. Huggy’s teaching specialties include leading organizational change, building customer focused cultures, and organization design. He has consulted with and conducted executive workshops for organizations such as Aon Corporation, British Petroleum, CEMEX, General Electric, Hearst Corporation, IBM, Mass Mutual, James Hardie Company, Seyfarth and Shaw. Additionally, he also worked with nonprofit organizations such as the American Cancer Society as well as the FBI and CIA.
