Media Coverage
Jan 27 2012
Are Companies More Powerful Than Countries?
Nitin Nohria, dean of the Harvard Business School, told me that, as an Indian immigrant to the U.S., he has some sympathy with that argument. Yet, he says, "companies are also becoming aware that if everyone feels the way Apple does, there will be a tragedy of the commons - we do rely on the health of our home markets, and multinational firms can't turn their back on them."
Jan 20 2012
What Business Schools Can Learn from the Medical Profession
A few years ago, a family member visiting from India became ill. Soon he was sitting on a hospital gurney, surrounded by people in lab coats-people who were, for the most part, incredibly inexperienced. This is common in Boston. Many of our wonderful hospitals are affiliated with medical schools, so they're full of students training to be doctors. It can be disconcerting or even frightening to put your health in the hands of individuals who are still learning their profession.
Nov 17 2011
Practicing Moral Humility
Whenever we see examples of ethical or moral failure, our knee-jerk reaction is to say "that was a bad person". We like to sort the world into good people who have stable and enduringly strong, positive characters, and bad people who have weak or frail characters. So why then do seemingly good people behave badly? Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School explores the moral overconfidence so prevalent in society and exhorts us all to practice moral humility.
Nov 15 2011
Harvard Business School's New Dean On Teaching Future Leaders
The Harvard Business School has a new dean, Nitin Nohria, who is hoping to bring a new sense of business ethics to the education of the next generation of CEOs.
Nov 10 2011
What Should We Teach Our Business Leaders?
Business leaders often suffer from what I call "moral overconfidence," or an inflated sense of their strength of character. So moral humility may be the most important thing we can teach them. Many people view "character" as an immutable trait formed during childhood and adolescence.
Nov 1 2011
Harvard Business School's Nohria on Students, Future
Nitin Nohria talks about the institution's education policy, students and the outlook for the global business community.
Oct 12 2011
Leading Business Education
Harvard Business School (HBS) was founded in 1908, in the words of future Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, as a "delicate experiment" - a five-year trial, to be exact, as approved by the Harvard Corporation. It began with 15 faculty members, 24 regular students, and 35 "special" students housed in space borrowed from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Sept 26 2011
Dose of Humility With a Harvard MBA
This is an important inflection point. We're moving from an American century in business to a global century in business. When I came to Harvard Business School in the 1980s, the vast majority of people were interested in studying America, because this is where they hoped to have job opportunities. As late as 1988, when I joined, less than 5% of our case [studies] were outside of the United States. Last year more than a third of our cases were global.
Aug 19 2011
Educating Business Leaders for a Global Century
When I arrived at Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1988, it was a thoroughly American institution. Perhaps 10 percent of the case studies analyzed during M.B.A. students' two-year course utilized overseas business problems. The primary focus was on teaching future business leaders how to succeed in an American context.
Jul 24 2011
Looking Ahead Behind the Ivy
Some schools are asking students to wrestle with questions about the ethical lapses that contributed to the financial crisis. Nitin Nohria, new dean of Harvard Business School and co-author of "Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership," discussed the new courses, and the goals and thinking behind them.
May 27 2011
The Driving Force Behind Harvard Business School
The key to harnessing these forces in the workplace is to design jobs that create a successful balance between all, or most, of these drives. For instance, if employees have interlocking tasks, Nohria argues, "their bonds of trust will facilitate their joint task performance."
May 20 2011
We're Not As Moral As We Think (And How That Gets Us in Trouble)
Nohria, the dean of Harvard Business School, is not looking to create excuses for mistakes or immoral actions. Instead, Nohria is trying to get us to think beyond the "knee-jerk reaction" of simply labeling a person good or evil, as if a character flaw is the only thing that motivates us to do bad things, or that the only kind of person capable of moral failure is simply a "bad seed."
Apr 11 2011
Challenges, solutions for South Asia
Nohria said HBS seeks to have the largest intellectual footprint with the smallest physical footprint. The School's engagement has included creating 120 cases that are shared with business schools there. The School also trains instructors from around the world, including South Asia, in the HBS case teaching method during workshops each summer.
Jan 24 2011
Navigating a route for the 21st century
"The growth in the industry is not in the US," explains Prof Nohria. "There is a deep set of shifts that are happening in the industry as a whole." He believes that this will be fundamental to the way Harvard develops. "We were a great American institution in a great American century. The next 21st century will not be a US century.
Jan 6 2011
Interview with Harvard Business School's Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria was recently named dean of the Harvard Business School, becoming the first dean to be born outside the western hemisphere. Mr Nohria says he plans to refocus the business school internationally, expanding their reach into emerging economies.
Nov 1 2010
Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link
For most of the 20th century, a symbiotic link existed between value creation and job creation. When businesses prospered, employment expanded and communities thrived. This virtuous circle was good for business and good for society.
Oct 13 2010
Business School Deans on the Future
Now, a new generation of leaders is moving into top slots at the country's top B-schools. We hear from Dean Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School.
Sep 13 2010
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
We are very fortunate to have the luxury to take on big challenges. I see my agenda as ushering in a new century of innovation for Harvard Business School, on the order of the innovation that was accomplished over the School's first century.
Sep 10 2010
Harvard Business School dean is bent on
change
Nohria said he's intent on changing the perception that business schools are "all about credentials and connections,'' instead offering the view that the pursuit of an MBA degree is about "enhancing competence and character.''
Sep 7 2010
Interview with Dean Nitin Nohria
During this career, he's expounded on topics of leadership, corporate transformation and accountability with today's CEOs through the Executive MBA Program and tomorrow's through the traditional MBA track.
Aug 3 2010
Business School Dean Nohria Advocates "Radical Innovation"
"I think it will take some time for America and Europe to reset their anchoring point from dominance to being seen as part of a century of true global competition," says Nohria.
Aug 3 2010
Nohria says it is going to be global century
Nitin Nohria, Indian-origin dean of Harvard Business School, has delivered some home truths in his JRD Tata Memorial Lecture 2010 organised by Assocham on Sunday in Mumbai.
Aug 2 2010
Harvard Business School Won't Open Asian Campuses
Mr. Nohria said Harvard's preferred strategy would be to maintain "a small physical footprint" in Asia through research centers and executive-education programs, which would provide the U.S. school with a "very large intellectual footprint."
Aug 2 2010
Nohria Says MBA Grads Thinking More Broadly After Crisis
Nitin Nohria talks in Hong Kong with Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat about issues facing business school students.
Aug 2 2010
Q&A: HBS's Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria, the new, Indian-born dean of Harvard Business School, spoke with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong Monday, ruling out the prospect of opening a Harvard campus in India while also playing up the importance of emerging economies in the coming century.
Jul 31 2010
Are MBAs and biz schools to blame for recent eco crisis?
CNBC's Anuradha Sengupta interviews Dean Nitin Nohria on business leadership and MBA education.
Jul 30 2010
India has a great ecology of entrepreneurs
In an interview with ET Now, Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School, talks about Indian entrepreneurs, promoters and whether India can produce a brand of innovation.
Jul 30 2010
2-yr MBA course is best: Harvard dean
An expert in organisation behaviour, Nohria believes that the most solid MBA course is a full two-year programme and not the one-year courses and online degrees.
Jul 30 2010
Q&A: Nitin Nohria, Dean, Harvard Business School
India-born Nitin Nohria was named the 10th Dean of Harvard Business School. Since he took office this July, he has been meeting faculty members and visiting several research centres of the Business School across the globe.
Jul 30 2010
India Still Finding its Way, Says HBS Dean
India may be one of the emerging economic powerhouses that will dominate this century, but it's still difficult to define a particularly Indian way of doing business, says Nitin Nohria, the new dean of the Harvard Business School.
Jul 29 2010
A post-crisis case study
On July 1st, a new dean, Nitin Nohria, took charge. His appointment suggests that the school sees the need for a shake-up. Mr Nohria is the first HBS dean who was not born in North America. He is also the first who has come to the job having said that business faces a "crisis of legitimacy" and that business education is at an "inflection point".
Jul 1 2010
An Innovator in Allston
Nitin Nohria, Chapman professor of business administration and, as of July 1, HBS's tenth dean, appears eager to address them.
May 16 2010
Harvard focuses on innovation with Nitin Nohria as dean
Much before Professor Nitin Nohria takes over as the tenth dean of the hallowed Harvard Business School on July 1, he will be hosting a conference on imagining the future of leadership with his colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Scott Snook.
May 13 2010
Nitin Nohria Named Dean of Harvard Business School
Nitin Nohria, known for his fervent advocacy for business ethics and the MBA oath - a voluntary pledge by graduating MBAs and current MBAs to create value by behaving ethically - has been named the 10th dean of the Harvard Business School.
May 11 2010
The dean poised to shake up business
Prof Nohria will be the first HBS dean in living memory not to emerge from the fields of economics and finance. His specialist subjects are leadership and ethics.
May 10 2010
Harvard B-school gets its first Indian-origin Dean
Nitin Nohria has been named as the 10th dean of Harvard Business School, the first time an Indian-origin person has been named to the post in the prestigious institution's 102-year old history.
May 10 2010
Harvard B-school gets its first Indian-origin Dean
Nitin Nohria has been named as the 10th dean of Harvard Business School, the first time an Indian-origin person has been named to the post in the prestigious institution's 102-year old history.
May 07 2010
Nitin Nohria: Aiming at extraordinary innovation
With India's importance on the global economic stage on the ascent, Nohria has plans to take HBS's India initiatives forward, although he was non-committal on the B-school setting up a campus in the country.
May 07 2010
Speed Dial: Nitin Nohria
On May 4, Harvard tapped a prolific leadership and ethics scholar as the next dean of its business school. His thoughts on the state of American business
May 06 2010
Case studies
THEY are changing the guard at some of the world's leading business schools. On May 4th Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the appointment of a new dean, Nitin Nohria, a first-class choice.
May 06 2010
Ethics expert to head Harvard Business School
Harvard University just named as dean of its influential Business School a professor long active in promoting business ethics, at a time when the image of the country's world is severely bruised.
May 06 2010
India-born Nohria appointed Harvard B-school dean
Indian-American Nitin Nohria was today named the 10th Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS). The first person of Indian origin to achieve this honour, he will assume charge on July 1.
May 06 2010
Nitin Nohria, the new Harvard Business School dean: IIT taught him to think out of box
After spending four years on the verdant Powai campus of IIT-Bombay, 21-year-old Nitin Nohria surely knew one thing: "I did not want to be a chemical engineer. That is the most important thing I learned in IIT." But when he came to receive his distinguished alumnus award in 2007, he told the institute director Ashok Misra that it was here that he learnt to think out of the box.
May 05 2010
HBS Gets An Indian-Origin Dean
Nitin Nohria, an IIT alumnus, has been named as the 10th dean of Harvard Business School, the first time an Indian-origin person has been named to the post in the prestigious institution's 102-year old history.
May 05 2010
IIT alumnus Nitin Nohria to be next dean of Harvard
Professor Nitin Nohria, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, has been named the first Indian-American dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School, a role he will take up on July 1.
May 05 2010
Harvard appoints Nohria as next dean
In a move which signals a real thirst for change, Harvard has appointed Nitin Nohria, the 48-year old leadership professor, as the next dean of the business school.
May 05 2010
Indian professor named Harvard B-school Dean
An India-born professor and IIT alumnus who has long championed a pledge for organizational leaders and managers on the lines of the Hippocratic Oath for doctors to enhance accountability in the corporate world has been named Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School.
May 05 2010
Harvard Business School gets its first Indian-origin Dean
Harvard Business School has appointed Indian-origin Nitin Nohria as its 10th Dean, making him the first member from the community to occupy the post in the prestigious institution's 102-year old history.
May 05 2010
Ethics specialist to lead Harvard Business School
A professor who has a strong interest in business ethics will become the new dean of Harvard Business School.
May 05 2010
Nohria Appointed Dean of Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School Professor Nitin Nohria will become the School's next dean on July 1, the University announced this afternoon.
May 04 2010
Ethics specialist to lead Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School has named a current professor as its 10th dean. Nitin Nohria, a leadership and organizational professor, will take up the new role on July 1, roughly seven months after Dean Jay Light announced he was stepping down.
May 04 2010
Nohria to be new dean of Harvard Business School
Harvard University signalled its determination to engage with the debate over the future of business education on Tuesday when it announced that Nitin Nohria, 48, had been appointed the new dean of Harvard Business School.
May 04 2010
News from the schools, May 2010
Nitin Nohria has been unveiled as Harvard Business School's new dean. Mr Nohria, a professor who specialises in organisational change and leadership, will be HBS's 10th dean.
May 04 2010
Harvard Leadership Expert Nohria Named Business Dean
Harvard University picked Nitin Nohria, a specialist in leadership and ethics, to be dean of its business school, charging him with transforming management education after financial catastrophes and scandals shook public faith in business.
May 04 2010
Nitin Nohria named next dean of Harvard Business School
Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS), will become the School's 10th dean, President Drew Faust announced today (May 4).
May 04 2010
Nitin Nohria Appointed Harvard Business School Dean
Continuing a tradition of appointing the leadership of Harvard Business School (HBS) from within its faculty ranks, President Drew Faust today announced that Chapman professor of business administration Nitin Nohria will become dean effective July 1, succeeding Jay Light, who announced last December his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year.
