Srikant Datar is an Indian-American economist and the Dean of
Harvard Business School
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. At Harvard, he concurrently serves as the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration. In 2021, he was awarded the
Padma Shri
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, the fourth-highest civilian award in India.
Early life
Datar attended the
Cathedral and John Connon School
The Cathedral & John Connon School is a co-educational private school founded in 1860 and located in Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra.St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai in 1973. At
IIM Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resource ...
, he was a gold medalist and the General Secretary of the Student's Council (1977–78). He is a chartered accountant and holds two master's degrees and a doctorate from
Stanford University
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.
Career
Since 2015, he has been faculty chair of the
Harvard Innovation Labs
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and Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the boards of directors of
ICF International
ICF International, Inc. is a Reston, Virginia-based global consulting and technology services company, which provides a range of services for governments and businesses, including strategic planning, management, marketing and analytics.
The comp ...
,
Stryker Corporation
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, and
T-Mobile US
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, all in the US, and of IIM Calcutta. He previously served on the boards of
IIM Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resource ...
,
HCL Technologies
HCLTech (formerly Hindustan Computers Limited or HCL Technologies) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Noida.It emerged as an independent company in 1991 when HCL entered into ...
Carnegie Mellon University
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, Stanford University, and
Harvard University
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. His research interests are in the areas of
cost management
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, measurement of
productivity
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, governance, new product development,
innovation
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, time-based competition, incentives, and
performance evaluation
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. He is the author of many publications and has received several academic awards and honors. In 2021, he was the winner of the 2021 Bharat Asmita Acharya Shreshtha Award from Maharashtra Academy of Engineering and Education Research (MAEER) and in 2020 he was honored as the 2020 Public Company Director of the Year by the
National Association of Corporate Directors
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(NACD).
Datar has also advised numerous companies in research, development, and training.