Dean's Message

“My vision is for the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business to be a world leader in generating new knowledge in the emerging global economic and business paradigm, and providing thought leadership to students, corporate executives and policy makers so that they can be agents of both economic prosperity and transformative social change. We want to be counted among the top-15 business schools in this country and the world. We want to be known for superb scholarship, excellent students and flawless operations, not just among our close peers but with everyone. There is a new developing business paradigm. Governments globally will be working very closely with financial, manufacturing and service companies. We will see deeper and broader private-public partnerships, with a resurgence of focus on business ethics, environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and social value creation in general. The Smith School can lead the way in helping both business and government define the parameters of this new relationship. We have the intellectual capital, relationships with policy makers at the legislative level and change makers in the nonprofit world, and the advantage of being in Washington, D.C. We are the best business school in the region and need to expand our reach to the greater D.C. area, and the world.” — G. “Anand” Anandalingam, Dean

G. “Anand” Anandalingam
Dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business
PhD, Harvard University
Dean Anand provides strategic oversight on all activities of the school

A dynamic leader with a strong founding in academia, Dean Anandalingam has been with the Smith School since 2001 and was appointed dean in 2008. During this time he has 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 has played a role in supporting the school’s rise in reputation in the past decade with expansion projects that more than doubled the physical size of the school and equipped it with state-of-the-art infrastructure; and the recruitment of a significant number of new faculty members from the world’s premier research institutions. He was also responsible for helping to develop Smith’s global executive programs and led the school’s effort to revamp and innovate the MBA curriculum. Anandalingam’s leadership has also included serving as the chair of Smith’s Masters Design, Development and Innovation 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 on 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 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.