G. Anandalingam

Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science Co-Director, Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises Robert H. Smith School of Business 4306 Van Munching University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 301/405-0582 TEL 301/405-8655 FAX ganand@rhsmith.umd.edu Personal home page News stories about Dr. Anandalingam

Research Interests

Pricing, economics, design and strategic issues in electronic markets and telecommunications networks

Background Information

Education
B.A., Electrical Sciences, Cambridge University S.M., Operations Research with Economics, Harvard University Ph.D., Operations Research with Economics, Harvard University

Areas of expertise
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 management. Anand has recently published a book entitled Beware the Winner's Curse (Oxford University Press) co-written with Professor Hank Lucas that provides a critical evaluation of the technology and dot.com boom of the 1990s. Anand is the Principal Investigator for a $2 Million National Science Foundation grant that studies electronic markets for time-sensitive goods. Over the past 15 years, 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.

Professional activities
Professor Anandalingam is the dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. He is also the founder of the Center on Electronic Markets and Enterprises at the Smith School of Business, and was the co-Director from 2001-2004. Before joining Maryland , Anand 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 from 1990 to 1995.

Anand is an Associate Editor of Management Science and Operations Research, and serves 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).

Professor Anandalingam has regularly consulted with both Fortune 1000 and start-up companies including SBC Communications, KPMG, GE Capital, AT&T, Nokia, MCI, Baysoft, Amtrak, and the World Bank. 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.

Links

Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Department of Decision and Information Technologies

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