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Indian-origin Srikant Datar named Dean of Harvard Business School

Srikant Datar will assume charge as the school’s next dean on January 1

4 min read10 Oct 2020
Companies

Meet Tesla's McKinsey-groomed, newly minted millennial CFO

Zach Kirkhorn, 34, will become chief financial officer of the electric-car maker Tesla saw a wave of executive departures in 2018 that hit the finance team particularly hard

1 min read31 Jan 2019
Opinion

Opinion | Why can't Rajat Gupta accept he is guilty of insider trading?

Despite being convicted, the former McKinsey head has continued to appeal his innocence

4 min read14 Jan 2019
Education

Panel recommends special grants, autonomy for top stand-alone institutes

The panel recommends that special grants, research facilities and functional autonomy be provided to top institutes even if they were not full-fledged multi-disciplinary varsities

3 min read17 Aug 2018
Companies

How your peers can help your start-up

Founders paired with 'active managers' are less likely to fail than those who get advice from 'passive managers', finds study

1 min read17 Aug 2018
Education

Lakshmi Mittal donates $25 million to Harvard University

Lakshmi Mittal donates $25 million to Harvard University with an aim to increase engagement with South Asian countries, including India

1 min read17 Oct 2017
Companies

Byju's now a Harvard Business School case study

According to the abstract on Harvard's website, the paper explores Byju's growth in India and the challenges to its expansion into the US, other English speaking markets

1 min read4 May 2017
Companies

Creating a sense of collective responsibility among corporations is key: Shashank Shah

Shashank Shah, a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School, speaks about how geography impacts corporate social responsibility, and why CSR is not just about money

4 min read24 Feb 2017
Companies

We are in a deglobalization period: Business historian Geoffrey G. Jones

Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey G. Jones says Brexit and Donald Trump's rise show that the world is in the second wave of deglobalization

8 min read18 Feb 2017
Companies

India's large corporate houses need to embrace ethics: Tarun Khanna

Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at the Harvard Business School and director at Harvard University's South Asia Institute, holds forth on failure of corporate governance in India's top companies

2 min read27 Feb 2017