Former Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has sued HBS after the school denied him tenure despite faculty and administrative findings that he met intellectual and teaching standards. Then‑Dean Nitin Nohria testified that Edelman failed to meet Harvard’s more nebulous “community standards,” a decision that Edelman says breached the school’s duty of good faith. Motions for summary judgment are pending in Massachusetts Superior Court as the case tests how elite universities define and apply non‑scholarly criteria in tenure decisions. The litigation has already produced voluminous depositions and exhibits and raised questions for faculty governance and transparency in tenure reviews.