Nitin Nohria
An India-born professor and IIT alumnus has been named Dean of the prestigious Harvard Business School.
Nohria, the 10th HBS dean, is the first Indian, and indeed the first non-white, to become the dean of the world’s oldest and arguably most prestigious (top three business-schools in the world!)!institution.
The business leaders’ Hippocratic Oath.
Nohria’s intellectual interests center on human motivation, leadership, corporate transformation and accountability, and sustainable economic and human performance.
Nohria is best known recently for promoting a Hippocratic Oath for business leaders, an idea he developed with a fellow Harvard colleague.
“The public trust in business and its leaders has never been lower. To restore trust, it is time for business leaders to embrace their own version of the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath…..”, he wrote recently in an article that appeared closely on the heels of the catastrophic and devastating failure of leadership to stem the global economic mess.
He realized that implementing the Hipppocratic Oath wouldn’t be a cake’s walk and that the path to progress would be strewn with thorns. “But there is no better or more important moment to try—because at stake is the very legitimacy of business leaders and the future of capitalism,” he cautioned. His unflinching zeal and deep passion for the idea led to HBS students adopting a voluntary MBA oath.
Co-editor of 16 books, Nohria underwent his B. Tech in Chemical Engineering in 1984 from no other than the prestigious IIT, Bombay. He was subsequently awarded the distinguished alumnus medal in 2007. 1988 saw him pursuing his Ph.D from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he earned the outstanding doctoral thesis award in behavioral and policy sciences.
Youngest professor to youngest dean
Later he went on to become the youngest professor when he went to Harvard in 1988, and now, the youngest dean.Thereafter, there was no looking back. It was one grand academic success after another!
The JBIMS Batch of 2010 have reasons to celebrate!
Top salary touches Rs.26-lacs.
Whilst a pall of gloom hung over several B-schools campuses and MBA graduates were seen with hang-dog expressions owing to pathetically low placements this year, JBIMS students were rather over jubilant. .
1st reason to celebrate: The average salary this year stood at 12.83 lakhs, 20% higher than last year.
2nd reason to celebrate: The highest package touched 26 lakhs.
3rd reason to celebrate: A total of 110 companies participated in the placement process and offered multiple offers to the batch of 119 students.
4th reason to celebrate: Companies this year offered diverse profiles thus enabling students to choose jobs based on their preference along with other factors such as compensation, job location etc.
5th reason to celebrate: Sectors like BFSI, FMCG, Investment Banking, Consulting, Pharma, Telecom, Real Estate and IT recruited in large numbers. About 38% of the students got placed in the BFSI sector alone.