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. Departing his position as a vice provost, chaired professor, and teacher at Harvard Business School (HBS), Professor Anand will begin serving in his new capacity at NYU Stern in August 2025.
In NYU’s press release, President Linda G Mills stated, “NYU is absolutely thrilled with the appointment of Bharat Anand to lead Stern. He is an outstanding choice—deeply strategic, possessed of a global outlook, innovative, highly respected, and exceptionally effective.”
An expert in corporate, media, and digital strategy, Professor Anand’s work has focused on the challenges of digital businesses “getting noticed” and “getting paid.” He is universally recognized as an influential voice in the area of digital transformation, receiving honors and awards for his teaching and research contributions, and is widely published in journals of strategy, economics, and marketing.
Previously on the faculty at Yale School of Management and a member of HBS faculty since 1998, Professor Anand created HBS’s first executive program on digital strategies for media companies and is the founding faculty chair and first senior associate dean of HBS Online, helping launch and grow its innovative new model for business education. His leadership as vice provost for advances in learning steered Harvard’s teaching through the pandemic and in its strategy for the future of residential and online education, convening its university-wide task force and leading the creation of its new learning experience platform. Professor Anand also contributed to establishing Axim, a non-profit dedicated to expanding access in education.
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.
Professor Anand received his bachelor’s degree in economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard and his PhD in economics from Princeton University.
Dean Anand says, “I am honored to be named dean of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Stern not only has a superb reputation, it possesses a remarkable spirit—entrepreneurial, determined, energetic, resourceful, and global. I was so delighted and impressed with everyone I met during the search process, and I’m excited to join this vibrant community and contribute to all that Stern is and aspires to be in the years ahead.”
