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Nitin Nohria, Harvard Business School’s first non-North American born dean.
Mr. Nohria, who has been on Harvard’s faculty since 1988, said Harvard has already made significant strides in recent years to be better aligned with the global economy. Two decades ago, the school taught few case studies based on Asian examples, but now has more than 100 Chinese and 70 Indian cases.