Srikant Datar

Biography

Srikant Datar is the Dean of Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker Professor of Business Administration. During his tenure at HBS, he’s served as the Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs, for Research, for Executive Education, for Faculty Development, and for Faculty Recruiting, and as Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Labs. An award-winning educator, Datar received gold medals upon graduation from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the Institute of Cost and Work Accountants of India. He’s the co-author of the leading cost accounting textbook, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, and Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads.