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Dean Srikant Datar

Dean Srikant Datar

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2021–Present

2021–Present

Srikant M. Datar became the 11th dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021.

During his tenure at the School, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for Executive Education, for Faculty Development, and for Faculty Recruiting.

A graduate with distinction from the University of Bombay, Datar received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. A Chartered Accountant, he holds two masters degrees and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Datar’s research and course development have been in the areas of cost management and management control, strategy implementation, governance, and, more recently, management education, design thinking and innovative problem solving, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has published his work on activity-based management, quality, productivity, time-based competition, new product development, bottleneck management, incentives, and performance evaluation in journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Management Science. He is a co-author of the leading cost accounting textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice-Hall) and of Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press). He has authored more than 30 cases on topics ranging from Data Science at Target to Nippon Steel.

Datar has taught MBA and executive education classes in design thinking, innovation, big data, and strategy implementation. Before joining the HBS faculty he held appointments at both Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, where he received the George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom and the Distinguished Teaching Award, respectively.

Datar serves on the Board of Directors of ICF International, Novartis AG, Stryker Corporation, and T-Mobile US, and has worked with many corporations on consulting and field-based projects. He was honored by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) as the Public Company Director for 2020. He is a member of the American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. He has served on the editorial board of several journals and presented his research to academic and executives audiences in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Statements & Speeches 

Dean Srikant Datar's 2022 Commencement Remarks

  • 26 MAY 2022

Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery

  • 28 FEB 2022
 
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Videos

  • May 26 2022
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Address

  • May 26 2022
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Address

  • November 1 2021
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Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial

  • November 1 2021
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Dean Srikant Datar Introduces the Case Method Centennial

In the News 

Future Vision

Re: Angela Crispi (MBA 1990); Srikant M. Datar (George F. Baker Professor of Administration Dean of the Faculty); Mitchell B. Weiss (Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice Chair, MBA Required Curriculum); Karim R. Lakhani (Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration); By: Brian Kenny
  • 01 Dec 2022
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  • HBS Alumni Bulletin

Jay Light, former HBS dean, dies at 81

Re: Srikant Datar, Jay Light & Nitin Nohria
  • 23 Oct 2022
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  • Boston Globe

Jay O. Light, Former Dean of HBS Dies at 81

Re: Jay Light, Nitin Nohria, Joshua Coval & Srikant Datar
  • 19 Oct 2022
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