Corporate and Digital Media Expert Bharat N. Anand Named Dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business
- Currently a professor and vice provost at Harvard, he will begin his new term this August.
Harvard University vice provost Bharat N. Anand has been named the Richard R. West Dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and professor of business administration. He will begin his new term this August.
An expert in corporate, media, and digital strategy, Anand is also a chaired professor at Harvard Business School (HBS). His work has focused on the central challenges for digital businesses of “getting noticed” and “getting paid,” according to a NYU press release. Known as an influential voice in the area of digital transformation, he created HBS’s first executive program on digital strategies for media companies.
The founding faculty chair and first senior associate dean of HBS Online, Anand, helped launch and grow its innovative new model for business education, NYU said. As vice provost, “he helped steer Harvard’s teaching through the pandemic, and convened the university-wide task force on the future of learning,” according to the NYU press release. Anand contributed to the creation of Axim, “a non-profit dedicated to expanding access in education.” He also led the creation of a new learning experience platform—“helping shape the University’s strategy for residential and online education.”
Anand has been a HBS faculty member since 1998, when he joined as an assistant professor of business administration, after previously serving on the faculty at Yale University’s School of Management.
He was named the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration in 2006, the faculty chair in 2013 and later senior associate dean of Harvard Business School Online, and Harvard University’s vice provost for advances in learning in 2018. He is the chair of Harvard’s Generative AI Working Group for Teaching and Learning. .
Anand is a widely published and influential scholar and author. His 2016 book, {“The Content Trap: A Strategist’s Guide to Digital Change,” was named a “Top 10 Book” by Fast Company and Bloomberg and was awarded the Axiom Business Book Silver Award for Best Book in “Business Theory.” His research has been published in leading strategy, economics, and marketing journals, and his articles and cases have received multiple scholarly awards. His many other honors and awards include selection to the Princeton Junior Society of Fellows during his graduate studies, twice receiving the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence at Harvard Business School, and twice receiving the Robert Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School, among others.
Anand received his bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard and his Ph.D in economics from Princeton University.