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Smith Business Close-Up
Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of
Business and Maryland Public Television.
The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management,
and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of
the school’s community of business leaders.
Coming Up Next: June 26, 2008
 Smith’s New Dean on Developing 21st Century Leaders
Business leaders must be ready to meet the varied and mutable challenges of a
global 21st century economy, and business school programs and research need to
prepare leaders to meet these challenges.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School of Business,
G. “Anand”
Anandalingam discusses his plans as new dean of the Smith School and the
importance of social entrepreneurship and sustainability in business education.
Anandalingam took the helm of the Smith School on July 1, 2008. A dynamic
leader with a strong founding in academia, Dean Anand has been with the Smith
School since 2001. 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.
Before joining Smith in 2001, Dean Anand 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. 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.
Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30
a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including:
- WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
- WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
- WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
- WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
- WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
- WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland
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