"Nitin Nohria" is the 10th and the current dean of Harvard Business School. He is also the George Fisher Baker/George F. Baker Professor of Administration. He previously served as co-chair of the HBS Leadership Initiative and sat on the executive committee of the University's interfaculty initiative on Harvard_University_Advanced_Leadership_Initiative/advanced leadership. Nohria was born in Nohar, Rajasthan in India. His father, Kewal Nohria, was the former Chairman of Crompton Greaves in India and was an influence upon Nohria's decision to embark upon a career in business. Nohria graduated from St. Columba's School, Delhi/St. Columba's School in New Delhi, India following which he earned a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and earned a Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is working with fellow HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, the World Economic Forum and the Aspen Institute to create a business oath, like the MBA Oath, [http://www.theoathproject.org/] that might be used globally. In a Harvard Business Review piece published in October 2008, Khurana and Nohria linked the connection between professionalism of a profession and the profession's ability to deliver value to society:

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