Nitin Nohria

Nitin Nohria is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard

Business School. He is also the George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He previously served as co-chair
of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sat on the executive committee of the Universitys interfaculty initiative
on advanced leadership. Nohria was born in Nohar, Rajasthan in India. His father, Kewal Nohria, was the former Chairman of Crompton Greaves in India and was an
inuence upon Nohrias decision to embark upon a career in business.[1] Nohria graduated from St. Columbas
School in New Delhi, India following which he earned a
B.Tech in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay and earned a Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.[2] He
is working with fellow HBS professor Rakesh Khurana,
the World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute to
create a business oath, like the MBA Oath, that might
be used globally.[3] In a Harvard Business Review piece
published in October 2008, Khurana and Nohria linked
the connection between professionalism of a profession
and the professions ability to deliver value to society:[4]

[7] Dean Nitin Nohria apologizes for Sexism at Harvard

Business School. IANS. Biharprabha News. Retrieved
31 January 2014.

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On May 4, 2010, Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust, President

of Harvard University, appointed him dean of the Harvard Business School. His term began from July 1, 2010.
He accepted the oer to become the next Dean of Harvard Business School, eective July 1, 2010.[5] He is
the second HBS dean, after John H. McArthur, born
outside the United States and the rst dean since Dean
Fouraker in the 1970s to live in the Deans House on the
HBS campus.[6] In January 2014, he tendered an apology
on behalf of Harvard Business School for the perceived
Sexism at the campus.[7]
He is married and father of two daughters.

References

[1] What guides Harvard B-school dean Nitin Nohria

[2] Interview with Nitin Nohria
[3] Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
[4] Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria. Its Time to Make
Management a True Profession. Harvard Business Review print edition, October 2008.
[5] Harvard Business School biography
[6] Navigating a route for the 21st century

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