Srikant Datar becomes dean of Harvard Business School, second consecutive Indian to achieve feat

Srikant Datar, an alumnus of University of Bombay and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has been named as the dean of Harvard Business School and will assume charge on January 1.

Srikant Datar is an eminent academician and is currently the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration and the senior associate dean for University Affairs.

Datar received his bachelor’s degree with distinction in 1973 from the University of Bombay and went on to acquire his post-graduation diploma in business management from IIM. He then went on to acquire his masters in statistics and economics before his Ph.D in business from Stanford University.

Datar became an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration in 1984. In 1989, he left the institution as an associate professor. Between 1989 and 1996, he served on the faculty of Stanford Graduate School of Business rising to become the Littlefield Professor of Accounting and Management and also securing the school’s Distinguished Teaching Award.