Recently, Harvard got its new dean making an India-origin taking this prestigious post for the second time. Eminent Indian-origin academician Srikant Datar has been selected for the post of Dean of Harvard Business School, succeeding Nitin Nohria and becoming the second consecutive dean hailing from India to lead the prestigious 112-year-old institution. Datar, an alumnus of the University of Bombay and IIM-Ahmedabad, is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and the senior associate dean for University Affairs at Harvard Business School (HBS). President Larry Bacow said that Srikant will take on charge as the school's next dean on January 1.
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President Larry characterized Datar as an "innovative educator, a distinguished scholar, and a deeply experienced academic leader". Srikant Datar will become the 11th dean in the business school history. He will succeed Nohria, who last November announced his plans to conclude his deanship at the end of June 2020, after providing 10 years of service. Datar obtained his bachelor's degree, with distinction, from the University of Bombay in 1973. A chartered accountant, he went on to receive a postgraduate diploma in business management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, before completing master's degrees in statistics and economics and a Ph.D. in business from Stanford University.
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From 1984 to 1989, he served as an assistant professor and then associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration, where he was honored with the George Leland Bach Teaching Award. From 1989 to 1996, he served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he grew to become the Littlefield Professor of Accounting and Management and was recognized with the school's Distinguished Teaching Award.