Experience Stern | NYU Stern Dean: Raghu Sundaram

Raghu assumed the Deanship in January 2018, following two years as Vice Dean of MBA Programs & Online Learning (2016-17). He has been a member of the Stern faculty since 1996 and was formerly at the University of Rochester from 1988-96.

As Vice Dean, Raghu's record of innovation includes the launch of focused one-year MBA programs; the development of new specialized masters programs joint with other schools at NYU; outreach to industry including securing the participation of business leaders from companies such as Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Jigsaw, Microsoft, IBM, and PayPal on the School’s newly created Tech MBA Advisory Board; the extension of the New York City-based Executive MBA program to downtown Washington, D.C., where it is now the highest ranked EMBA in that market; the establishment of the Creative Destruction Lab-New York City; and Stern’s entry into online education, including launching the first in a series of online certificate programs; among others. Raghu also has a long record of service to Stern and the University, including a two-year stint (2012-14) as the chair of the Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Senators Council and serving as a member of NYU’s Presidential Search Committee in 2014.

Raghu's research in finance covers a range of areas including agency problems, executive compensation, corporate finance, derivatives pricing, and credit risk & credit derivatives. He has also published extensively in mathematical economics, decision theory, and game theory. His research has appeared in leading academic journals in finance and economic theory as well as several practitioner-oriented journals. Among other distinctions, he has served on a number of editorial boards, received grants from the National Science Foundation and other organizations, won the Jensen Award, and been a finalist for the Brattle Prize.

Raghu is the author of two books: A First Course in Optimization Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Derivatives: Principles and Practice (McGraw-Hill, 2010). In 2007, he became the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Stern School of Business.

Academic Background

Ph.D., Economics, 1988 Cornell University
M.A., Economics, 1987 Cornell University
M.B.A., 1984 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
B.A., Economics, 1982 University of Madras, India

 

Areas of Research

Derivatives: equity, interest-rate, & credit-risk	Agency & executive compensation	Corporate finance
Dynamic & stochastic games	Optimal learning & bandit problems	Game theory, economics, & dynamic programming