Robert J. Kauffman
Robert J. Kauffman is currently a Visiting Professor IS and Strategy at Singapore Management University’s School of Information Systems, and Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He also is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow associated with the Glassmeyer-McNamee Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He previously served as the W.P. Carey Chair in IS at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, and as a Professor and Chair of Information and Decision Science, and Center Director of the MIS Research Center at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He has also been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Rochester, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and an Assistant and Associate Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He worked in international banking and finance on Wall Street in New York City, and is a past graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder (B.A.), Cornell University (M.A.) and Carnegie Mellon University (M.S., Ph.D.). His research focuses on senior management issues that span the economics of IS, competitive strategy and technology, IT value, strategic pricing and consumer behavior, e-commerce, risk management, and supply chain management. He blends theory development and modeling with empirical methods and data collection in a variety of industry settings, including air travel, financial services, telecommunications, hospitality, and e-commerce. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals, and has won numerous awards for his innovative research, academic service, and graduate student advising. He has served in a variety of editorial positions and conference leadership roles, and will co-chair the ICIS Doctoral Consortium in Shanghai in 2011, and the International Conference on Electronic Commerce in Singapore in 2012. His current research papers are forthcoming in 2011 and 2012 at the Review of Economics and Statistics, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Information Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, and Information Technology and Management.Education
1988
MS, PhD, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
1979
MA, School of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Academic and Industry Work
2011-
Visiting Professor IS and Strategy, School of Information Systems and
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management
University
2006-2011 W.P. Carey Chair of
IS, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
1995-2007 Info &
Decision Sci. Dept., Carlson School of Management, University of
Minnesota
1995-1999 Associate Professor;
2000-2006: Full
Professor; 2001-2007: Department Chair for Information &
Decision
Science; 2002-2006: Director, MIS Research Center
1988-1995 IS
Department, Stern School of Business, New York University
1988-1992:
Assistant Professor; 1992-1994: Associate Professor
1993-1993 Associate
Professor, Simon Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester
1992-1993 Visiting
Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
1983-1988 Doctoral
Program in IS, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
1980-1983 Africa
& Mideast / Western
Europe / Strategic Planning Divisions, Irving Trust Co., New York
Research and Doctoral Program Affiliations
2002-present: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;
2004-present: Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic
of
China; 2007-present: Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Selected Publications (2000-present)