Indian-Origin professor named Harvard University's new Vice Provost for advances in learning

An Indian-Origin professor at Harvard Business School has been named Harvard University's new Vice Provost for advances in learning, a role that focusses on teaching and learning innovation.

Bharat Anand, who is the Henry R Byers Professor of Business Administration, will take over in October from Peter Bol as new vice provost for advances in learning (VPAL).

A report in The Harvard Gazette said the Harvard Business School professor is also the Senior Associate Dean and faculty chair of HBX, the school's digital learning initiative that he helped create. Anand said he is looking forward to the challenge and opportunities of his University-wide role.

"Harvard has been a hotbed of innovations in pedagogy and learning during the last few years," he said in the Gazette report.

"It's a good time to take stock of what we've learned from these various projects and how this might inform our future efforts, while also recognizing that we are still probably in the early stages of imagining and shaping what the future of higher education will eventually look like."