Indian named next dean of Harvard Business School

At a pivotal moment for Harvard Business School and for business education more generally,Im delighted that Nitin Nohria has agreed to lead HBS forward. Hes an outstanding scholar,teacher and mentor,with a global outlook and an instinct for collaboration across traditional boundaries, Faust said.

On his appointment as Dean,Nohria said,I feel a profound sense of responsibility for continuing Harvard Business Schools proud legacy of groundbreaking ideas and transformational educational experiences.

A scholar of leadership and organizational change,Nohria has previously been the Schools senior associate dean for faculty development and chair of its organizational behavior unit. Current co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and a member of the HBS faculty since 1988,he will take up his new role on July 1.

Nohria succeeds Jay Light,who in December announced his plans to retire at the end of the 2009-10 academic year after five years as dean and four decades of distinguished service on the HBS faculty.

Nohria received his bachelor of technology degree in chemical engineering in 1984 from the Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay,which awarded him its distinguished alumnus medal in 2007. He received his Ph.D. in management in 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Sloan School of Management,where he earned the outstanding doctoral thesis award in behavioural and policy sciences. He joined the HBS faculty as an assistant professor in 1988,was appointed associate professor in 1993,was promoted to tenure in 1997,and became the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration in 1999.

His current academic interests include the theory and practice of leadership,the study of human motivation,the analysis of management practices critical to corporate success,and the strategic and organizational challenges of globalization.

He has co-written or co-edited 16 books,and is author of more than 50 articles and dozens of teaching cases and notes.