Srikant Datar Named Dean of Harvard Business School | Photo credit: iStock Images
Srikant Datar, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the second consecutive dean from India to lead the prestigious 112-year-old institution. Datar will begin its service on January 1, 2021.
“Srikant Datar is an innovative educator, distinguished scholar, and deeply experienced academic leader. He is a leading thinker on the future of business education and has recently played an essential role in HBS ‘creative response to the challenges posed by COVID. Pandemic -19. He has served with distinction in a variety of leadership positions during his nearly 25 years at HBS, while forging novel collaborations with other Harvard schools, “Bacow said, President Larry Bacow announced as quoted by The Harvard Gazette .
Since joining the faculty in 1996, Datar has held a number of key positions, including senior associate dean of the school responsible for faculty recruitment, faculty development, executive education, research and currently university affairs.
“I am equally honored and humbled to take on this role,” Datar said. “Harvard Business School is an institution with a remarkable legacy of impact in research, education, and practice. However, the events of the past year have accelerated our passage into an unforeseen future. I look forward to working with colleagues and friends from school: – even throughout Harvard, in our Boston community and around the world – to carry out our mission in what is sure to be an exciting new era. “
Datar will become the 11th dean in the 112-year history of the School of Business. He will succeed Nitin Nohria, who last November announced his plans to conclude his decan at the end of June 2020, but agreed to continue until December in light of the pandemic.
Datar received his BA, with distinction, from the University of Bombay in 1973. A Chartered Accountant, he received a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, before completing a Masters in Statistics (1983) and Economics (1984 ) and a doctorate in business (1985), all from Stanford University.
From 1984 to 1989, he was an assistant professor and later associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Management, where he was honored with the George Leland Bach Award for Teaching. From 1989 to 1996, he served on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he became the Littlefield Professor of Accounting and Management and was recognized with the school’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
