Design Thinking & Innovation
Dr. Srikant Datar, Dean at Harvard Business School interacted with Great Lakers in a dynamic session on Design Thinking and Innovation. Watch Dr. Datar’s talk here
Srikant Datar is an Indian-American economist and the Dean of Harvard Business School. At Harvard, he concurrently serves as the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration. In 2021, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in India.
Since 2015, he has been faculty chair of the Harvard Innovation Labs and Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the boards of directors of ICF International, Stryker Corporation, and T-Mobile US, all in the US, and of IIM Calcutta.[8] He previously served on the boards of IIM Ahmedabad,[9] HCL Technologies (2012 to 2014) and KPIT Technologies (2007 to 2012), both based in India.
Datar has worked as an accountant and planner in industry and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. 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 publications and has received several academic awards and honors. Datar has also advised numerous companies in research, development, and training.
