After a national search, Sanjay Gupta has been recommended to serve as the new dean of the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
If approved by the MSU Board of Trustees, his appointment would be effective June 17.
Gupta would become the 11th dean in the history of the college, which was founded in 1944 as the School of Business and Public Service. The college now has 120 full-time faculty members in five departments – Accounting and Information Systems; Finance; Management; Marketing; and Supply Chain Management – and the School of Hospitality Business. The college conferred 1,348 degrees in 2013-14.
Gupta currently serves as acting dean of the business college and is also the Russell E. Palmer Endowed Professor in Accounting. He joined the Broad College in 2007 as chairperson of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems. He was appointed associate dean for MBA and professional master’s programs in July 2012.
“The positive direction, growth and momentum the college has experienced under Sanjay’s leadership as acting dean signal a bright future for the college in the coming years,” said MSU Provost June Pierce Youatt.
During his tenure as associate dean, Gupta introduced academic innovation such as the intensive BroadWeek MBA course; facilitated the launch of new master’s programs in business analytics and management, strategy and leadership; and led a task force to reevaluate and reinstate the Executive MBA program. The MBA program also has increased its position in global and national rankings.
Gupta received a doctorate degree in philosophy from MSU in 1990. For the next 17 years he held several faculty positions at Arizona State University including the first Henry & Horne Professorship in Accountancy.
Gupta received the Faculty Excellence Award from the Broad College’s Executive MBA Class of 2010. He also won the Accounting Education Innovation Award and the Outstanding Educator Award from the Arizona Society of CPAs.
An expert on corporate and individual tax policy, Gupta has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. government, major public accounting firms and international consulting firms.
Gupta serves as a commissioner for the Pathways Commission studying the future path of accounting higher education, and on the advisory boards for the Midland Research Institute for Value Chain Creation, MSU-CIBER and the Demmer Center for Business Transformation.
Gupta also has a master’s degree in accounting from Bowling Green State University, a bachelor’s degree of laws from Calcutta University in India and a bachelor’s in commerce from the University of Mumbai.