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Jay Owen Light
American academic administrator and corporate director
Jay Owen Light
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| Intro | American academic administrator and corporate director | ||||||
| Is | Professor Businessperson | ||||||
| From | United States of America | ||||||
| Type | Academia Business | ||||||
| Gender | male | ||||||
| Birth | Belmont, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA | ||||||
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| Peoplepill ID | jay-owen-light |
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Biography
Jay Owen Light is an American academic administrator and corporate director. He served as the ninth dean of the Harvard Business School.
Early life
Light graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Engineering Physics in 1963 and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He obtained a doctorate from the Harvard Business School in 1970.
Career
Light served as the dean of the Harvard Business School from 2006 to 2010. He was appointed by Lawrence Summers, on April 24, 2006, and he was succeeded by Nitin Nohria on July 1, 2010.
Light serves on the boards of directors of The Blackstone Group, the Hospital Corporation of America and Partners HealthCare.
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http://www.hbs.edu/about/history.html
http://investor.hcahealthcare.com/leadership/board-directors/jay-o-light
http://www.hbs.edu/dean/about-dean-light/