Economist Srikant Datar, who's an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, has been appointed the dean of the Harvard Business School.
Indian-starting place academician and economist Srikant Datar, who's an alumnus of the celebrated Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, has now been appointed the brand new Dean of the Harvard Business School. He will anticipate this function from January 1, 2021.
Srikant Datar, who's set to anticipate rate of the celebrated 112-year-vintage commercial enterprise college in Boston, might be the second one consecutive dean of Indian starting place after Nitin Nohria.
Mr. Bacow stated, “He is a main philosopher approximately the destiny of commercial enterprise education, and he has lately performed an crucial position in HBS’s innovative reaction to the demanding situations posed with the aid of using the COVID-19 pandemic.”
He similarly delivered that Datar has served with difference in various management positions over his almost 25 years at HBS, even as additionally forging novel collaborations with different Harvard Schools.
Srikant Datar has stated that he's “same measures humbled and commemorated to take in this position” after being appointed the brand new dean of the Harvard Business School after Nitin Nohria.
Datar additionally stated, “I look ahead to operating with colleagues and buddies of the School — along with at some stage in Harvard, in our Boston community, and across the world — to comprehend our venture in what surely might be an interesting new era.”
Datar might be succeeding Nitin Nohria, who final November introduced his plans to finish his deanship on the quit of June 2020, after 10 years of outstanding service, however agreed to retain via this December in view of the pandemic.
Srikant Datar’s outstanding profession
Srikant Datar finished his commencement from the University of Bombay in 1973 and assumed a profession as a chartered accountant. He then acquired his postgraduate degree in commercial enterprise control from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad.
He then finished his master’s tiers in facts and economics and a Ph.D. in commercial enterprise from Stanford University. He become an assistant professor after which accomplice professor on the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration from 1984 to 1989, wherein he become honoured with the George Leland Bach Teaching Award.
Currently, he's serving on a governing frame of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Datar has additionally held numerous key positions in Harvard Business School, after becoming a member of the institute as a college member in 1996. He become the college’s senior accomplice dean accountable for college recruiting, for college development, for government education, for research, and presently for University affairs.
