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Nitin Nohria, dean and George F Baker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been appointed non-executive director of Tata Sons.
The Tata Sons board now comprises Chairman Cyrus Mistry, Farrokh K Kavrana, R Gopalakrishnan, Ishaat Hussain, Vijay Singh and Nohria.
Earlier, Nohria served as co-chair of the Harvard Business School leadership initiative, senior associate dean of faculty development and head of the organisational behaviour unit of Harvard Business School.
A doctorate in management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he holds a BTech degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (which honoured him as a distinguished alumnus in 2007). He was a visiting faculty member at the London Business School in 1996.
He has served as advisor and consultant to several companies across the world.
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* Dean and George F Baker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
* Doctorate in management from the Sloan School of Management
* Served as advisor to several companies across the world
