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Bharat N. Anand ’88, the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning and professor at Harvard Business School, was named the next Dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business, the school announced on Thursday. He will depart Harvard for the new role in August 2025.

Anand joined HBS faculty as a professor in 1998. He was named the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration in 2006, and later served as the school’s faculty chair for nearly seven years.

“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,” Anand said in a statement released by NYU.

NYU President Linda G. Mills touted Anand as an “outstanding choice,” and said his “global outlook” will help NYU meet the current political moment. NYU was not named by the Trump administration’s task force against antisemitism as one of 60 universities under investigation.

“At a moment when discourse on important matters has become so rancorous and divisive, his experience leading a university working group on enabling difficult conversations will be very welcome, indeed,” she said, in a statement released by NYU.

“He has a reputation for deftly building common ground and for cultivating partnerships widely,” she added.

In 2014, Anand helped launch Harvard Business School Online and later led the University’s transition to online learning during the pandemic. He is currently chair of Harvard’s Generative AI Working Group for Teaching and Learning.

Anand’s work led to his appointment as the University’s Vice provost for Advances in Learning in 2018.

“Today Harvard is a global leader in pedagogy, digital learning, and educational access,” Anand wrote in a statement to The Crimson.

Anand was also one of the founders of the Axim Collaborative — a Harvard-MIT venture to bring better education access to low-income and first-generation students.

“I’m proud of what we accomplished together, and I’ll carry with me lasting lessons about the value of strategic clarity and collaboration, the enduring impact of expanding access, and the importance of working with intentionality and purpose in service of a shared mission,” he wrote.

The move to NYU’s Stern School, one of the nation’s top business schools, will mark Anand’s first full-time appointment outside of Harvard. He earned an economics degree from the College, where he graduated magna cum laude, and later earned his PhD from Princeton University.

Anand said that he is looking forward to joining NYU as dean of its business school this summer.

“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,” Anand said in the statement released by NYU.

—Staff writer Evan H.C. Epstein can be reached at evan.epstein@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X at @Evan_HC_Epstein.