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Harvard Business School's new Indian-born dean, Nitin Nohria, recently announced that the top business school would not be opening new campuses in Asia, despite the overwhelming demand from Asian students, reports a Wall Street Journal article last week.
Dean Nohria's first public gesture as dean had been a trip to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Mumbai, causing people to think that he was considering the possibility of expanding Harvard to the East. But in an interview last week, Dean Nohria dismissed the idea.
The new dean says that there are no plans to open a full-time campus overseas. "I don't think that is necessary and nor do we have the ambition to do that," he said. "We're in the business of chasing knowledge and not chasing demand." Harvard does have research facilities and executive education programs in Asia, but other than those, Dean Nohria says that Harvard would rather maintain "a small physical footprint in Asia…which would provide the U.S. school with a very large intellectual footprint."
HBS is, of course, interested in aligning itself with the global economy. About 40% of HBS students are non-U.S. residents, and the number of case studies based on Asian examples have gone up from just a few to more than 70 Indian and 100 Chinese cases in the last few decades.
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