Nitin Nohria is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on February 9, 1962 in New Delhi, Delhi, India. She is married to two daughters, who both are currently attending Harvard College. Nohria has earned “$727,365 in salary and benefits in 2014.”
In November 2019, Nohria announced that he will step down as dean on June 30, 2020. In light of the COVID-19 outbreak, Nohria decided to stay on as dean through the end of 2020.
In May of 2010 Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University, appointed him Dean of the Harvard Business School, effective July 1st, 2010. The Dean is second HBS Dean following John H. McArthur, born outside of the United States and the first Dean since Dean Fouraker in the 1970s to reside within the Dean’s House located on the HBS campus. He was adamant in January of 2014 that he offered the school an apology Harvard Business School for the perception of sexism in the school.
Nohria was co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sat on the executive committee of HBS’s interfaculty initiative for advanced leadership. Nohria is collaborating alongside colleagues HBS Professor Rakesh Khurana as well as with the World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute to create a business oath, similar to that of the MBA Oath, [1] which could be utilized globally. In an article from the Harvard Business Review piece published in October 2008 Khurana and Nohria identified the link between the professionalism and the ability of the profession to contribute benefits to society:
In August 2017, Nohria argued that President Donald Trump’s support for “isolationism” was detrimental to American economic prosperity, as it discouraged successful foreigners from immigrating to the United States.
