{"id":29697,"date":"2022-03-24T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=29697"},"modified":"2022-03-24T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:22:04","slug":"professor-profiles-rawi-abdelal-harvard-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-rawi-abdelal-harvard-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rawi-Abdelal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8345 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Rawi-Abdelal1.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"167\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we profile\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbs.edu\/faculty\/Pages\/profile.aspx?facId=6628&amp;facInfo=awa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Rawi Abdelal<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0from Harvard Business School (HBS).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rawi Abdelal <\/strong>is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management and the director of Harvard\u2019s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. In addition to teaching, he serves as a faculty associate for such groups as Harvard\u2019s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.<\/p>\n<p>His first book, <em>National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective\u00a0<\/em>(Cornell University Press, 2001), won the 2002 Shulman Prize for outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision making of any former Soviet Union or Eastern European state. In 2016, Abdelal was granted the HBS One Harvard Faculty Fellowship, and in 2013, he received the Robert F. Greenhill Award, given to outstanding members of the HBS community who are making significant contributions to the school. Moreover, in 2004, he was awarded the Student Association\u2019s Faculty Award for outstanding teaching in the required curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Abdelal is a student favorite, we were told by those we interviewed, because of his willingness to spend time with students outside the classroom (even those who are not in his section), explaining macroeconomic concepts that can be difficult to grasp. He is also known for incorporating unusual references from literature and popular culture into his class discussions. He has made allusions to Shakespeare, the movie\u00a0<em>Fight Club<\/em>, and even rapper Jay-Z\u2019s song \u201cBlue Magic\u201d to help explain complex topics.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about HBS and 16 other top-ranked business schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,40],"tags":[233,251,181],"class_list":["post-29697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harvard-hbs","category-professor-profiles","tag-harvard-business-school","tag-insiders-guides","tag-professors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Profiles: Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"No one will affect your education more than your professors. 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