nitin nohria named dean of harvard business school

Last week, Harvard announced that Nitin Nohria, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, will become the School's tenth dean: Nitin Nohria named next dean of Harvard Business School.

A scholar of leadership and organizational change, Nohria has previously been the School's senior associate dean for faculty development and chair of its organizational behavior unit. Current co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and a member of the HBS faculty since 1988, he will take up his new role on July 1.