Srikant Datar

Srikant Datar is an American economist, focusing in the cost management and management control areas, currently the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.[1][2][3]

Srikant Datar, Ph.D., has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2003 and qualifies as an independent Non-Executive Director. He is Chairman of the Risk Committee, as well as a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee and the Compensation Committee. The Board of Directors has appointed him as Audit Committee Financial Expert.

Since 1996, Mr. Datar has been the Arthur Lowes Dickinson professor of business administration at Harvard Business School in the United States. Additionally, since 2015, he has been faculty chair of the Harvard InnovationLab and senior associate dean for university affairs at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the boards of directors of ICF International Inc., Stryker Corp. and T-Mobile US, all in the US. He previously served on the boards of HCL Technologies Ltd. (2012 to 2014) and KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd (2007 to 2012), both based in India.

Mr. Datar graduated in 1973 with distinction in mathematics and economics from the University of Bombay in India. He is a chartered accountant, and holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate from Stanford University in the US. Mr. Datar has worked as an accountant and planner in industry, and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University and Harvard University, all in the US. His research interests are in the areas of cost management, measurement of productivity, new product development, innovation, time-based competition, incentives and performance evaluation. He is the author of many scientific publications and has received several academic awards and honors. Mr. Datar has also advised and worked with numerous companies in research, development and training.

References

  1. ↑ "Srikant Datar". hbs.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Srikant Datar seen as favorite as new HBS Dean". thecrimson.com. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Srikant Datar". hbs.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.

Bibliography

  • Srikant M. Datar; David A. Garvin; Patrick Gerard Cullen (2010). Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Harvard Business Press. ISBN 978-1-4221-3164-0. OCLC 436026627.


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