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.
Rao graduated from the Andhra University 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, Case Western Reserve University.
He then moved to Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University where he was the Richard L.Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change from 2002 to 2005.