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Why Harvard Business School Denied Tenure—Even When the Academic Case Was Strong

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An earlier photo of former Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Edelman – Harvard photo On paper, Ben Edelman was a textbook tenure candidate at Harvard Business School. Over an 11-year timeframe, his intellectual contributions were indisputable. His teaching record passed muster. Yet his tenure case ended in rejection. The reason, according to then–Dean Nitin Nohria, had nothing to do with scholarship or pedagogy. Edelman, Nohria said, fa…
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Poets&Quants broke the news in on Friday, January 16, 2026.
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