Srikant Datar is an Indian-American economist and the Dean of

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. At Harvard, he concurrently serves as the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration.

Early life and education

Datar attended the

Cathedral and John Connon School The Cathedral and 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 The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad or IIM-A), is a business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is one of the Indian Institutes of Management and was accorded the status of an Institute of National Impor ...

, 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 in economics and statistics and a doctorate in accounting from

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. Additionally, he has also completed the ICWA (Institute of Cost and Works Accountant) Course.

Career

Since 2015, he has been faculty chair of the

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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

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, and

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, all in the US, and of IIM Calcutta. He previously served on the boards of

HCL Technologies HCL Technologies Limited ( d/b/a HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida. Founded by Shiv Nadar, it was spun out in 1991 when HCL entered into the software services business. ...

(2012 to 2014) and

KPIT Technologies KPIT Technologies Ltd is an Indian multinational corporation which provides engineering research and development (ER&D) services to automotive companies. The company is headquartered in Pune and has development centers in Europe, USA, Brazil ...

(2007 to 2012), both based in India. Datar is also part of the governing body of

S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research The Shreyans Prasad Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) is a private non-profit post-graduate management school based in Mumbai, India. Founded in 1981 under the aegis of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, History In 1981, SPJIMR was in ...

. Datar has worked as an accountant and planner in industry and as a professor at

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, Stanford University, and

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. His research interests are in the areas of

cost management Cost accounting is defined by the Institute of Management Accountants as "a systematic set of procedures for recording and reporting measurements of the cost of manufacturing goods and performing services in the aggregate and in detail. It includ ...

, measurement of

productivity Productivity is the efficiency of production of goods or services expressed by some measure. Measurements of productivity are often expressed as a ratio of an aggregate output to a single input or an aggregate input used in a production proce ...

, governance, new product development,

innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or service (economics), services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a n ...

, time-based competition, incentives, and

performance evaluation A performance appraisal, also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation, (career) development discussion, or employee appraisal, sometimes shortened to "PA", is a periodic and systematic process whereby the job performance of ...

. 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

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(NACD). Datar has also advised numerous companies in research, development, and training.

Awards

In 2021, he was awarded the

Padma Shri The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...

, the fourth-highest civilian award in India. In 2022, the International Institute of New England (IINE) announced Srikant Datar as the recipient of the 41st Golden Door Award.

References

Bibliography

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Indian emigrants to the United States Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature and education