Manoj Malhotra Named Dean of Lehigh University’s College of Business in Pennsylvania
- The Indian American has held significant academic and administrative positions at Case Western Reserve University and the University of South Carolina.
Lehigh University has named Manoj K. Malhotra as the dean of its College of Business, effective July 1. The Indian American currently serves as the John R. Mannix Medical Mutual of Ohio Professor of Operations Management at Case Western Reserve University. He succeeds Georgette Chapman Phillips, who will retire on June 30.
Announcing the appointment, Lehigh noted that Malhotra “brings a breadth of experience from holding significant academic and administrative roles” at Case Western Reserve University and the University of South Carolina. As dean and Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, he “oversaw a period of significant change and growth, setting new enrollment records and launching innovative programs such as a healthcare-focused online MBA,” the university said.
During his tenure at the Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina (USC), Malhotra introduced many programmatic innovations and steered the management science department to national recognition. He established the influential Center for Global Supply and Process Management (GSCPM).
In a statement, Malhotra said he’s “honored” with his appointment, adding that he was “attracted to the dean’s position at Lehigh Business because of its impressive growth trajectory in academic programs and faculty, its student-focused curriculum, and several centers of excellence in diverse functional areas of business.”
Apart from USC and Case Western Reserve University, he also has taught at the Terry School of Business, University of Georgia; Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien in Austria; and the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University, Australia. He is a co-author of a leading textbook in operations and supply chain management and has published widely in leading journals of the field on the deployment of flexible resources in manufacturing and service firms, operations and supply chain strategy, healthcare operations, and the interface of operations with other functional areas of business.
He has been recognized for his pedagogical and scholarly contributions through several teaching and discipline-wide research awards. He has been the program chair for two major international conferences and served as the President of the global Production and Operations Management Society in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS).