Harvard at a Glance

Harvard at a Glance:

ESTABLISHED

1636

FACULTY

About 2,100 faculty members and more than 10,000 academic appointments in affiliated teaching hospitals

STUDENTS

Harvard College – About 6,700
Graduate and professional students – About 14,500
Total – About 21,000

MOTTO

Veritas (Latin for “truth”)

REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS

5,076 acres

LIBRARY COLLECTION

About 17 million volumes

About Dean Nitin Nohria:

• Nitin Nohria became the tenth dean of Harvard Business School on 1 July 2010. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit. He didn’t begin his tenure by announcing an ambitious agenda, either. Instead, he went on a 10-city listening tour to get advice and perspective on the school’s direction from alumni and corporate leaders. Then he held one-on-one meetings to discuss the school’s future with each of the school’s 225 faculty members.

• Nohria, 50, was born in India and received a bachelor of technology degree in chemical engineering in 1984 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. He earned a PhD in management in 1988 from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and joined the Harvard Business School faculty soon ­afterward.

• As Dean, building on input from faculty, students, staff, and alumni, he has identified five priorities for Harvard Business School: innovation in the School's educational programs, beginning with the MBA Program; intellectual ambition that advances ideas with impact in practice; continued internationalization, through building a global intellectual footprint; creating a culture of inclusion, where every member of the community can do their best work in support of the School's mission; and fostering a culture of integration within HBS and across Harvard University that acts as a catalyst for entrepreneurship. Recent examples of activities in support of these priorities include:

1. A new...