New Delhi, May 05: Indian-American Nitin Nohria has been appointed as the 10th Dean of Harvard Business School. He is the first person of Indian origin to occupy this prestigious and high-profile post.
Nitin Nohria is currently working as the Richard P Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS). He will take over as the Dean on July 1, 2010.
Nohria received his B.Tech degree in Chemical Engineering from the IIT Mumbai in 1984. He then received his Ph.D. in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 1988.
He joined the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty as an assistant professor in 1988 and appointed as an Associate Professor in 1993. He was promoted in 1997 and became the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration in 1999.
Nitin Nohria wrote several books and co-edited many books too. He is also the author of more than 50 articles and several teaching cases and notes.
—-Agencies