It was September 3, 1974. I walked into Aldrich Hall, extraordinarily excited to be a student in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. There were four Indians out of a class of 900. If someone had told me then that an Indian would one day become the dean of HBS, my reaction would have been: "Get serious!"

How things have changed. The top job in our profession is the dean of the Harvard Business School. By appointing Nitin Nohria to be the 10th HBS dean, Harvard President Drew Faust has created a signature moment for America, and for the Harvard Business School.

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