Dean of Havard Business School Nitin Nohria resigns from Tata Sons board

Before he became a dean of HBS, Nohria had served as co-chair of the Harvard Business School leadership initiative

Nitin Nohria, dean of Harvard Business School (HBS), has quit the Tata Sons board as director. 

A top Tata group executive said Nohria's term was to end next month and he had not sought reappointment in the forthcoming annual general meeting of shareholders of Tata Sons. Nohria sent his resignation letter, which was accepted by the holding company, said the executive.

Nohria, one of the most respected leaders of US academia, joined the Tata Sons board in September 2013 as a representative of Tata Trusts. 

According to the filings with the National Company Law Tribunal, Nohria, along with Ratan Tata, had asked Mistry