Shaping Business Strategy in a Networked World

 
           
   
Plenary Speakers
 
Prof. Rob Kauffman
 

Rob Kauffman is currently Director of the MIS Research Center , Professor of Information and Decision Sciences, and Chair of the Information and Decision Sciences Department. Prior to joining the faculty at the Carlson School of Management in 1994, he held the ranks of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Stern School of Business, New York University from 1988 to 1994. He was also a visiting Associate Professor at the Simon Graduate School of Business of the University of Rochester , and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia . He received a doctorate in industrial administration at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now the Tepper School of Business) at Carnegie Mellon University .

His current research emphasizes the justification of IT infrastructure and e-commerce application investments, standards and technology adoption, the performance of Internet markets, technology-driven changes in industrial organization, and evaluation of IT investments in the financial services, hospitality, airlines and travel industries. He has published in journals such as Information Systems Research, Communication of the ACM, Organization Science, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), and International Journal of Electronic Commerce (IJEC) , Decision Sciences among others. He is also the author of two books: Measuring Business Value of Information Technology (ICIT Press, 1988, with Paul Strassman, Burt Swanson, Paul Berger and Charles Kriebel, and Strategic Information Technology Management: Organizational Growth and Competitive Advantage (Idea Group Publishing, 1993, with Rajiv Banker and Mo Mahmood). He also has won the equivalent of the ˇ°grand slamˇ± of conference best research paper awards and recognitions in the field of Information Systems, including the International Conference on Information Systems (1988 and 2000), the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (1999), the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (1991 and 2004), the American Conference on Information Systems (2000), and the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (2003).

He has served on the editorial boards of Management Science, ISR, JMIS, IJEC and the International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Manufacturing.
Prof. David D. Yao
 

David Yao received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto (1983), was Assistant Professor at Columbia University (1983-86), Associate Professor at Harvard University (1986-88), and since 1988 has been a full Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University. In addition, he has held a visiting appointment at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center since 1990.

Professor Yao's teaching and research interests are in stochastic models, queues and queueing networks, focusing on the analysis, design and control of stochastic systems, such as manufacturing systems, supply chains, and communication networks. Author/co-author of over 160 refereed publications, three books and five edited volumes, he is a leading contributor to the theory and applications in his field, and has served on the editorial board of top journals, including Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Management Science, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, and Queueing Systems.

His numerous honors and awards include: IEEE Fellow ; Guggenheim Fellow (1991/92); Presidential Young Investigator Award (1987-92) from the National Science Foundation; Franz Edelman Award (first prize, 1999) from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS); SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize (2003) from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; and from IBM Research: Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (1999), Research Division Award (1996), and Invention Achievement Award (1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000). Besides, he is a holder of four U.S. patents in manufacturing operations and supply chain logistics.

 
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Prof. David D. Yao: http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/~yao/
 
 
 
 
     
   
 
   
   
   
 
     
   
 
   
   
   
   
 
     
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