Anjani Jain is Deputy Dean for Academic Programs and Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Indore University in India; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and a PhD in operations research from the University of California, Los Angeles. 
 
He started his academic career at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, joining its faculty in 1986 and assuming various leadership roles during 26 years of service. These roles included Vice Dean positions at Wharton, overseeing the MBA and MBA for Executives programmes.  He taught courses in management science and operations management in the MBA, undergraduate, PhD, and executive education programmes, and was recognised by numerous teaching awards.  He has also taught at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, and the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and Mohali.  He was a member of the International Advisory Council of the ISB and served on the faculty committee that helped design ISB’s curriculum.  He has been a consultant or advisor to automotive, discrete manufacturing, food processing, and private equity firms.
 
Professor Jain joined Yale School of Management in 2012 and teaches in the MBA, EMBA, and executive education programmes. He served as Yale SOM’s acting dean during 2017-18.  His research publications cover topics as the probabilistic analysis of combinatorial problems, telecommunications network design, the analysis and design of manufacturing systems, and optimisation algorithms. His more recent work has investigated the impact of growing product variety on the manufacture and design of families of products, especially in the automobile industry.