Nitin Nohria joins Tata Sons board

Nohria has served as an advisor and consultant to several large and small companies in different parts of the world

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.

THE MAN

* 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