Nitin Nohria was born on February 9,1962 and is an Indian-American academic.
14 Facts About Nitin Nohria
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Nitin Nohria was the tenth dean of Harvard Business School.
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Nitin Nohria is the George F Baker Professor of Administration.
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Nitin Nohria is a former non-executive director of Tata Sons.
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Nitin Nohria was born in a Hindu Baniya family originally from Khetri, Rajasthan, India.
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Nitin Nohria earned a PhD in Management from the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988.
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Nitin Nohria served as co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sat on the executive committee of the University's interfaculty initiative on advanced leadership.
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Nitin Nohria 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.
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Nitin Nohria is the second HBS Dean, after John H McArthur, born outside the United States and the first Dean since Dean Fouraker in the 1970s to live in the Dean's House on the HBS campus.
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In November 2019, Nitin Nohria announced that he would step down as dean in June 2020 but, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nitin Nohria decided to stay on as dean through the end of 2020.
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In 2014, Nitin Nohria apologized for HBS on how it had sometimes treated its female students and professors offensively.
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Under Nitin Nohria as dean for 10 years at Harvard Business School, there was a low percentage of African Americans as enrolled MBA students and had nine out of 270 faculty members in the faculty who were black.
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In June 2020, Nitin Nohria publicly apologized for failing to mount a more successful fight against racism and pledged to move urgently forward with what he called an "anti-racism action plan".
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Nitin Nohria is married with two daughters, both of whom currently attend Harvard College.