About Our Authors
Ashish Agarwal (“The Impact of Competing Ads on Click Performance in Sponsored Search”) is an assistant professor of information management at the McCombs School of Business of the University of Texas at Austin. He has a Bachelors degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, a Masters in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in information systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include sponsored search, social media advertising, economics of app ecosystems, network analysis, online information, and investment markets.
Hillol Bala (“Implementation of an Information and Communication Technology in a Developing Country: A Multimethod Longitudinal Study in a Bank in India”) is an associate professor and the Whirlpool Corporation Faculty Fellow in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. His research interests include IT-enabled business process change and management, IT use, adaptation and impacts, and use of IT in healthcare. He has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, and as a track chair, an associate editor, or a program committee member of major information systems conferences. His work has been published or is forthcoming in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly Executive, and other journals.
Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay (“Should Online Content Providers Be Allowed To Subsidize Content?—An Economic Analysis”) is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in management information systems from Purdue University. His current research interests include economics of information systems and public policy, especially in the area of net neutrality, national broadband policy, and health informatics. His work has been published in several journals in the areas of information systems, operations management, and marketing.
Ravi Bapna (“IT Outsourcing and the Impact of Advisors on Clients and Vendors”) is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems, the Program Director for the MS-Business Analytics program, and the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab. In addition, he is the founding academic co-director of the University of Minnesota’s Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research center that views the billion strong, online social-graph as a giant global laboratory, a sandbox to gain a deeper causal understanding of how consumers, firms, industries, and societies are being reshaped by the social media and big data revolution.
Gordon Burtch (“Secret Admirers: An Empirical Examination of Information Hiding and Contribution Dynamics in Online Crowdfunding”) is an assistant professor of information and decision sciences at the Carlson School of Management and an affiliate faculty member of the Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from Temple University. His research and expertise, which focuses on the economic evaluation of individual behavior in online social contexts, has been referenced by a number of major media outlets, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Time.com, Time Magazine, WIRED.com, Forbes, PC World, and BBC Capital. His work has been published in a variety of leading information systems journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. He is a recipient of four best paper awards and nominations, including the 2014 Information Systems Research and Information Systems Society Best Paper Award. He is also a recipient of multiple grants from prominent granting agencies, including the Kauffman Foundation and 3Mgives.
Ying-Ju Chen (“Pricing Data Services: Pricing by Minutes, by Gigs, or by Megabytes per Second?”) holds a joint appointment of associate professor between the School of Business and Management and the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from New York University, and was a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California Berkeley. He is a recipient of an NYU teaching excellence award, Harold W. Kuhn Award, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group paper competition, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award, CSAMSE best paper award, and the NYU Harold MacDowell Award.
Soohyun Cho (“Should Online Content Providers Be Allowed To Subsidize Content?—An Economic Analysis”) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. Her current research interests include economics of information systems, social media, business analytics, and accounting information systems.
Vidyanand Choudhary (“Designing Promotion Ladders to Mitigate Turnover of IT Professionals”) is an associate professor at the Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in management from Purdue University. His research interests include economics of information systems, business impact of analytics, use of recommender systems and search tools, impact of technology on corporate governance, and marketing strategy and pricing of cloud based services and other information goods. He is a cofounder of the Workshop on Theory in Economics of Information Systems and his research papers have won best paper awards at ICIS and WITS. His research has been published in several top tier journals including Management Science and Information Systems Research.
Emre M. Demirezen (“Managing Co-Creation in Information Technology Projects: A Differential Games Approach”) is an assistant professor at the School of Management in Binghamton University, State University of New York. He earned his Ph.D. in information and operations management from Texas A&M University. His research interests include healthcare information exchanges, healthcare management, and coordination and collaboration issues in IT and supply chains. His publications have appeared in reputable journals such as Information Systems Research and Production and Operations Management.
Anindya Ghose (“Secret Admirers: An Empirical Examination of Information Hiding and Contribution Dynamics in Online Crowdfunding”) is a professor of IT and marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and the Director of the Center for Business Analytics. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2014, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the "Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide" and by Analytics Week as one the "Top 200 Thought Leaders in Big Data and Business Analytics." He teaches courses on digital marketing and business analytics in the United States, Europe, India, China, and South Korea; he has collaborated with Adobe, Alibaba, CBS, China Mobile, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, NBC, Samsung, 3TI World, SK Telecom, Travelocity, and many other leading Fortune 500 firms on realizing business value from IT investments. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award; he has received 16 best paper awards and nominations; he is a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar and a NSF CAREER award winner; he serves as an associate editor of Management Science and a senior editor of Information Systems Research.
Paulo B. Goes (“Do Incentive Hierarchies Induce User Effort? Evidence from an Online Knowledge Exchange”) is the Dean and Halle Chair in Leadership at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. His research interests are in the areas of design and evaluation of IT-enabled business models, big data analytics, innovation exploration, emerging technologies, e-commerce and online auctions, database technology and systems, and technology infrastructure. He has just finished his term as the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly; he has also been recognized with the 2014 INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow Award. His research has appeared in several top academic journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and many others.
Shane Greenstein (“Open Content, Linus’ Law, and Neutral Point of View”) is the MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. He is also co-director of the program on the economics of digitization at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, both in economics. His research encompasses a wide array of questions about computing, communication, and Internet markets.
Chenhui Guo (“Do Incentive Hierarchies Induce User Effort? Evidence from an Online Knowledge Exchange”) is an assistant professor at Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. Prior to joining Michigan State, he received a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona and a B.S. in management from Zhejiang University. His research interests include crowdsourcing platforms, online communities, social media, and social networks. He is also the recipient of the best paper award at CIST 2014. His research has appeared in leading information systems journals and conferences, such as Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on MIS, WITS, WISE, CIST, etc.
Alok Gupta (“IT Outsourcing and the Impact of Advisors on Clients and Vendors”) is the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He is Curtis L. Carlson Schoolwide Chair in Information Management, and the former chair of the Information and Decision Sciences Department. He was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research on dynamic pricing mechanisms on the Internet in 2001, and was named an INFORMS Information Systems Society Distinguished Fellow in 2014. He served as senior editor of Information Systems Research and has been serving as associate editor of Management Science. His research has appeared in several information systems, economics, and computer science journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.
Ke-Wei Huang (“Pricing Data Services: Pricing by Minutes, by Gigs, or by Megabytes per Second?”) is an assistant professor with the Department of Information Systems at the National University of Singapore. He got his Ph.D. in information systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. His fields of specialization include pricing information goods, mechanism design in e-commerce, IT labor economics, and text mining applications in finance. His works have been published in Information Systems Research, Strategic Management Journal, Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, ACM Transactions on MIS, Decision Support Systems, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
Subodha Kumar (“Managing Co-Creation in Information Technology Projects: A Differential Games Approach”) is the Carol and G. David Van Houten, Jr. ’71 Professor at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has published several papers in reputed journals. He is the deputy editor and a department editor of Production and Operations Management, a senior editor of Decision Sciences, and an associate editor of Information Systems Research. He is the Vice-President, Communications of the Production and Operations Management Society, and the Vice President of the Information Systems Society.
Mingfeng Lin (“Do Incentive Hierarchies Induce User Effort? Evidence from an Online Knowledge Exchange”) is an assistant professor of management information systems at the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. He studies online communities, crowdfunding (including peer-to-peer lending), online labor markets, product reviews, and entrepreneurship. His papers are published or forthcoming in Management Science and Information Systems Research. His research has won awards such as the 2015 Management Science Best Paper in Information Systems.
Frank MacCrory (“Designing Promotion Ladders to Mitigate Turnover of IT Professionals”) is an assistant professor at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University. He received his Ph.D. in management from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the economics of information systems with current interests in IT professionals, IT’s impact on the broader labor market, and platform economics.
Tridas Mukhopadhyay (“The Impact of Competing Ads on Click Performance in Sponsored Search”) is the Deloitte Consulting Professor of e-business and professor of business technologies at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer and information systems from the University of Michigan. His research interests include strategic use of IT, business-to-business commerce, business value of IT, economics of cybersecurity, and software development productivity. His recent papers on e-business examine Internet referral services, use of consumer information in email advertising, and information personalization. His other research projects study the productivity and quality of software products and offshore software contracts.
Alain Pinsonneault (“Designing Promotion Ladders to Mitigate Turnover of IT Professionals”) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, and the James McGill Professor and the Imasco Chair of Information Systems in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His current research interests include the organizational and individual impacts of IT, user adaptation, social networks, enterprise resource planning implementation, e-health, e-integration, strategic alignment of IT, and the business value of IT. His research has appeared in numerous journals, including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Organization Science. He recently completed a 10-year term on the editorial board of Organization Science. He has also served on the editorial boards of several other journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems.
Liangfei Qiu (“Should Online Content Providers Be Allowed To Subsidize Content?—An Economic Analysis”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His current research focuses on location-based social networks, economics of information systems, prediction markets, and social media. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems.
Gautam Ray (“IT Outsourcing and the Impact of Advisors on Clients and Vendors”) is an associate professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. His research interests are in the area of impact of IT on firm scope and structure. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Strategic Management Journal.
V. Sambamurthy (“Implementation of an Information and Communication Technology in a Developing Country: A Multimethod Longitudinal Study in a Bank in India”) is the Eli Broad Professor and Chairperson, Accounting and Information Systems Department at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His work has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Management Science, Organization Science, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; he has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems; he served a six-year term as the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research. In December 2009, he was selected as a Fellow of the Association of Information Systems, for his scholarly work and contributions to the advancement of the information systems community; the Information Systems Society of INFORMS selected him as Distinguished Fellow in 2011. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University.
Bala Shetty (“Managing Co-Creation in Information Technology Projects: A Differential Games Approach”) is a professor, holder of the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Chair, and Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs at Mays Business School. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations research from Southern Methodist University. He has published extensively in premier scholarly journals in business and served as associate editor for Operations Research, Decision Sciences, and Naval Research Logistics, and twice as a guest editor for the Annals of Operations Research.
Shweta Singh (“IT Outsourcing and the Impact of Advisors on Clients and Vendors”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research has been published in top information systems and computer science conferences such as ICIS, SCECR, WISE, and GlobeCom. She was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and the McNamara Fellowship from the University of Minnesota.
Viswanath Venkatesh (“Implementation of an Information and Communication Technology in a Developing Country: A Multimethod Longitudinal Study in a Bank in India”) is a Distinguished Professor and Billingsley Chair in Information Systems at the Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas; on sabbatical from the University of Arkansas, he is currently a Chair Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and society. For over a decade, he has worked with several companies and government agencies in different capacities ranging from a systems engineer to a special consultant to the Vice President, and has rigorously studied real world phenomena. He is recognized to be among the most influential scholars in business and economics, with about 55,000 cites per Google Scholar and about 13,000 cites per Web of Science, respectively; a recent article by Thomson Reuters identified him to be among the top 1% most-cited scholars in business and economics; he has published a book titled Road to Success: A Guide for Researchers in the Behavioral and Social Sciences; he has developed and maintained an information systems research rankings website since 2008 (http://myvisonresearch.com/research-rankings). He is currently serving or has served on the editorial boards of various journals including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of AIS, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Management Science.
Sunil Wattal (“Secret Admirers: An Empirical Examination of Information Hiding and Contribution Dynamics in Online Crowdfunding”) is an associate professor of management information systems at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. His expertise focuses on economics of information systems, peer-to-peer economy, social media, and crowdfunded marketplaces. He has received several grants from organizations such as NSF, CIGREF, and the Kauffman Foundation, and his work has been published in academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He currently serves as associate editor at MIS Quarterly.
Feng Zhu (“Open Content, Linus’ Law, and Neutral Point of View”) is an assistant professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in science, technology and management and a Master’s in computer science at Harvard University. He did his undergraduate work in computer science, economics, and mathematics at Williams College. His research examines competitive strategy and innovation in high-technology industries, with an emphasis on platform-based markets.
