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Finalists named in SOM dean search
Three candidates to visit campus during next week, meet with constituents
By CHRISTINE VIDAL
Contributing Editor
The finalists for the position of dean of the School of Management will visit campus, starting today, to meet with members of the UB and local business communities.
The finalists are G. Anand Anandalingam, Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland; Arjang A. Assad, professor of management science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland; and Anne P. Massey, dean’s research professor and professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Anandalingam will be on campus today. Massey will visit on Monday and Assad will visit on May 1.
While on campus, candidates will meet with management faculty, senior staff, students, alumni, leaders of the business community and senior university leaders. Open sessions with each candidate also are scheduled. The open session with Anandalingam will be held from 4:30-5 p.m. today in 160 Jacobs Hall; the time and location of open sessions with the other candidates had not been announced as of Reporter press time.
Click here for further information about the campus visits; the curriculum vita for each candidate is available under the “Candidates” link.
Harvey G. Stenger Jr., professor and dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is chair of the School of Management Dean Search Committee.
All members of the university community are encouraged to participate, as well as provide the search committee detailed and confidential feedback about candidates by email at hstenger@buffalo.edu.
Anandalingam, who also serves as senior associate dean of the business school, has been a member of the University of Maryland faculty since 2001. Before being named senior associate dean, he was chair of the Department of Decision and Information Technology in the business school, as well as serving in other administrative positions.
He also has been a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Virginia, and served as an engineer-economist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Co-author of “Beware the Winner’s Curse: Victories That Can Sink You and Your Company,” Anandalingam is co-editor of “Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management” and “Telecommunications Network Design and Management,” and was guest editor of special issues of several professional journals.
He teaches executive, distance-learning and graduate courses in topics that include project management, global operations management, telecommunications strategy and game theory, mathematical economics and optimization.
Anandalingam holds a Ph.D. and S.M. from Harvard University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University.
Assad, who also is Dean’s Professor for Extraordinary Service in the Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies, has been a University of Maryland faculty member since 1978.
He is the author or editor of a number of books, including “Profiles on Operations Research,” scheduled for publication in the fall, as well as more than 50 refereed articles and book chapters.
Assad’s research interests include distribution management and transportation networks modeling, history and evolution of operations research, quality management and lean manufacturing, mathematical programming and combinatorial optimization, and manufacturing models and applications.
He holds a doctorate in management science, a master’s degree in operations research, a chemical engineer’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massey, executive director of Information Management Affiliates, has been a member of the faculty of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University since 1996.
Her research interests include information technology implementation and adoption, service innovation and management, knowledge transfer, computer-supported collaborative work, service usability and acceptance, and e-health issues.
She has published numerous book chapters and articles in refereed journals, and served as a consultant to companies that include Clifton Gunderson LLP, National Valuation and Forensic Services, and Eli Lilly and Co.
In addition to Indiana University, Massey has taught in the College of Management at North Carolina State University and the School of Management at Clarkson University, and was senior engineer for plans and controls at the IBM Manufacturing Technology Center and a program planner for General Electric’s Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
She holds a doctorate in decision sciences and engineering systems, a master’s degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor’s degree in management, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.