Smith School Administrators

G. Anandalingam, Senior Associate Dean

Professor G. "Anand" Anandalingam is the senior associate dean and Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science. He was chair of the Department of Decision and Information Technologies from January 2004 to June 2007. Before joining Maryland, he was with the University of Pennsylvania for almost 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management, and a professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School. He was chair of the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from January 1997 to May 2001. He also directed the Executive Master's Program in Technology Management at Penn from 1990 to 1995. He has a B.A. in electrical sciences from Cambridge University, England, and an S.M. and Ph.D. in operations research (minor: economics) from Harvard University. He has received many awards for his research and teaching from Penn, Harvard, Cambridge, and Maryland. He is the 2006 recipient of the Krowe Award for teaching excellence at the Smith School of Business.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Anandalingam works in the area of pricing, economics, design, and strategic issues in electronic markets and telecommunications networks. He has published more than 75 papers, and has two edited volumes on telecommunications systems design and management. He has also co-written a business strategy book with Professor Hank Lucas entitled Beware the Winner's Curse (Oxford University Press) that provides a critical evaluation of the technology and dot.com boom of the 1990s. His research has been funded by industrial and government sponsors including the National Science Foundation, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), AT&T, Unisys, the Department of Energy, and Dell. Over the years, he has been the principal investigator for over $8 million in research funding.

INSTITUTION BUILDING
Professor Anandalingam has founded a number of centers of research excellence and has developed initial funding for these entities. At Penn, he founded the Ackoff Center on Advanced Systems Approaches (ACASA) in 2000 with seed funding of $1 million from industry sponsors. At the Smith School he was the founder of the Center on Electronic Markets and Enterprises (CEME) at the Smith School of Business, and was the co-director from 2001-2004. CEME received $2 million of funding from the National Science Foundation. He also helped found the Center on Health Information and Decision Systems (CHIDS), a successful center with revenues of around $275K per year. He has helped generate significant revenues by successfully developing and running programs at Penn and Maryland. In his tenure as director of Executive Masters in Technology Management at Penn, he helped revive a failing program and build it to $2 million in annual revenue. He was also responsible for helping to develop executive programs at Maryland through both academic partners in China, Tunisia and India, and also strategic industrial partners in the information systems and telecommunications areas. During the 2006-07 academic year, he led the effort at the Smith School to revamp and innovate the MBA curriculum.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professor Anandalingam is an associate editor of Management Science and Operations Research, and has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Telecommunications Systems, and Networks and Spatial Economics. He has also guest edited a volume of Management Science on electronic markets. He is a senior member of both INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). He frequently serves on Conference Committees of international conferences in management science and telecommunications networks. He was the general chair of the INFORMS annual conference in 1999, and serves as the co-program chair of the INFORMS conference in 2008. He is the general chair of the Workshop on Information Systems Economics in 2007.

Professor Anandalingam has regularly consulted with both Fortune 1000 and start-up companies including Motorola, SBC Communications, KPMG, GE Capital, AT&T, Nokia, MCI, Baysoft, Amtrak, and the World Bank. Much of his consulting work has evolved from applied operations research to pricing and economic analysis including global strategy. He has been an expert witness on litigations involving global telecommunications companies. In the early 1980s, he started a resources consulting firm called IDEA Inc. with a number of colleagues, and in the late 1990s, a consulting firm called Network Ideas Inc. Both these companies were closed after short successful runs.