G. “Anand” Anandalingam, Dean

G. “Anand” Anandalingam has been dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business since July 1, 2008. He was senior associate dean and occasional acting dean from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. The Smith School is a highly ranked business school with overall undergraduate, MBA and EMBA rankings all in the top 25. The faculty of the Smith School is consistently ranked in the top 10 by both the Financial Times and Businessweek, and the University of Texas-Dallas ranking of research productivity.

Anandalingam identifies sustainable innovation as a priority in developing business leaders ready to meet the varied and mutable challenges of a global 21st century economy. Smith’s world-class programs and research reflect the core values of socially and environmentally responsible organizational stewardship. Among the school’s strengths are its strong and highly-respected faculty; its desirable location in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; and its established global reach.

As dean, Anandalingam has invested in ten centers of excellence, including the Center for Social Value Creation, the Center for Financial Policy, and the Center for Leadership, Innovation and Change. He has raised funds for multiple endowed professorships, programs on business history and ethical leadership, and numerous scholarships for students. Under his leadership, the Smith School has enhanced its corporate reach with a new facility for the Office of Career Services and programs like CEO@Smith and ThoughtLeadership@Smith. The Smith School’s activities in Baltimore, including partnerships with the University of Maryland-Baltimore, have also expanded considerably during his tenure.

Anandalingam has been with the Smith School since 2001. During this time he served in various key senior leadership positions as senior associate dean and as chair of the Smith School’s decision, operations and information technologies department. He serves as chair of the school’s Masters’ Design, Development and Innovation Committee, the MBA program curriculum development committee. He is the founder of the Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises, a center that he co-directed from 2001-2004, and he helped found the school’s Center for Health Information and Decision Systems.
Before joining Smith in 2001, Anandalingam was at the University of Pennsylvania for nearly 15 years, where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management and a professor in both the Penn Engineering School and the Wharton School. His positions at the University of Pennsylvania included serving as the chair of the department of systems engineering and directing the Executive Master’s Program in Technology Management. He has received numerous academic and teaching awards while at the Smith School, as well as a variety of scholarships, fellowships, prizes and endowed appointments at Pennsylvania, Harvard and Cambridge. He has been on editorial boards of top-tier journals and has also graduated more than 20 PhD students, many of who have joined top-30 academic institutions.

Anandalingam began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD and MS from Harvard University, and his BA and MA from Cambridge University.