Lindner MBA program names new director

Rungtusanatham joins Lindner from Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, where he served as professor of operations management and information systems and was the Canada Research Chair in Supply Chain Management.  

“He has a tremendous record in business education and is a world-class scholar in operations research,” said Andrew Harrison, PhD, assistant department head and associate professor of OBAIS. “He is also well known for excellence in the classroom and brings great administrative experience managing successful academic programs. Rungtusanatham will be an incredible asset to the OBAIS department and the Lindner College of Business.”

But Rungtusanatham aims for his research to reach beyond academic circles to amplify the real-world implications of his work for companies and business leaders.

“With every academic research piece that I put out, I always try to think about how do I bring it into the classroom? How do I bring it into [executive] education and how do I communicate it to practitioners?” said Rungtusanatham. “So, oftentimes my academic research has a companion piece that's geared toward practitioners that I'm able to convert into a teaching case that then can be used by a company or in our undergraduate or graduate educational offerings.”

Rungtusanatham also looks forward to being part of Lindner’s “legacy and educational philosophy behind the emphasis on co-op and experiential learning” and how he may incorporate that into his teachings.

Featured image at top courtesy of Johnny Rungtusanatham.