Our Faculty
Here you'll find a list of our outstanding faculty. Primarily drawn from the MIS department from the Terry College of Bussiness at the University of Georgia, our faculty brings a diverse collection of knowledge, industry experience, teaching experience, and research interests to support the MIT curriculum.
Jay E Aronson
Jay E. Aronson (B.S., M.S., M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.) is a professor of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia. He regularly teaches in the undergraduate American Business Studies Program at the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon, France), and in the M.B.A and Executive M.B.A. Program at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University [Universiteit] (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Dr. Aronson is the author of over 50-refereed papers that have appeared in leading journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Decision Sciences. He is the author of four books (including Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, also translated into Chinese and Indonesian), and contributes to several professional encyclopedias. He is frequently invited to present his research at national and international conferences. He is also a consultant to major international corporations and organizations. Dr. Aronson’s current areas of research include knowledge management (including storytelling as a means to capture and distribute tacit [experiential] knowledge), revenue management, collaborative computing, network optimization, and parallel computinng.
Robert P. Bostrom
Bob Bostrom is the L. Edmund Rast Professor of Business at the University of Georgia. He is also the President of Bostrom & Associates (B&A), a training and consulting company focusing on facilitation and the effective integration of people and technology. He teaches in Management Information Systems (MIS) and Management areas. Besides numerous publications in leading academic and practitioner journals, he has extensive consulting and training experience in the areas of MIS management, MIS design, organizational development, facilitation, and computer support for groups/teams. His current research interests are focused on facilitation, leadership, Groupware, e-learning, and effective design of organizations via integrating human and technological dimensions
Marie-Claude Boudreau
Dr. Boudreau is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Terry College of Business. She joined the UGA faculty since 2001 after earning her PHD in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University. Dr. Boudreau's industry experience includes positions as business analyst, designer, and programmer. At the Terry College she has taught courses that include data management, integrated enterprise-wide systems, and globalization and IT. She is the author and coauthor of numerous articles in the leading IS peer reviewed journals.
Dennis Calbos
Dr. Calbos is a part-time instructor in the Management Information Systems department in the Terry College of Business. He recently retired from active administrative work. His career spans over thirty years of progressively responsible positions in the IT industry, most recently as interim CIO and Associate Provost at the University of Georgia (November 2004). Previously, he served as Director of Administrative Information Systems at the University of Georgia with major responsibilities in the management, planning, design and development of the University's central information systems. In 1975, prior to coming to the University he was Director of Information Systems for the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. He also worked for the State of Georgia as a management analyst in Governor Carter’s Office of Planning and Budget. He has private industry experience as a software engineer, consultant, account manager and project manager.
Dan Everett
Daniel M. Everett is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia. His research interests include Computational Linguistics, Programming Language Design, Microcomputer Hardware and Software, and Information Retrieval. Dr. Everett Has taught several courses in the MIT program including acting as the technical consultant for students teams while they work on the capstone project.
Dale Goodhue
Dr. Goodhue is a Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the Terry College of Business. He is the author and coauthor of numerous articles in the leading IS peer reviewed journals. His research interests include data management in large organizations, task-technology fit, user evaluations and IS success, and Management of IS.
Mark Huber
Mark Huber is Executive Lecturer in Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business, Director of the Terry College and Franklin College of Arts and Science Leadership Excellence and Development Program (L.E.A.D.), and a member of the UGA Teaching Academy. He has a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia. During the past six years he has won nine teaching awards including recognition as Outstanding Faculty at UGA Honors Day, a Terry College Regent’s Professor Award Nominee, Outstanding MIS Faculty, a Student Government Outstanding Professor Award, Alpha Kappa Psi (professional business society) Outstanding Management Information Systems Teacher of the Year Award, and three UGA Career Center Student Development Awards. His research interests include group support systems and team and group development. His papers have been published in the International Journal of e-Collaboration, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems. he is a co-author for the recently published textbook Business Information Systems.
Elena Karahanna
Dr. Karahanna is professor of Management Information Systems and the director, International Business Programs for the Terry College of Business. She is internationally renowned for her many publications in peer reviewed journals as well as numerous speaking engagements at international conferences. Her research interests include: Management of the Information Technology Adoption and Implementation Processes; Use of Electronic Communication Media in Organizations; Effect of Culture on Information Systems; and IS Leadership.
Craig A. Piercy
Craig A. Piercy has been teaching large numbers of students in Introduction to Information Systems, Computer Programming, and Web Development classes at the University of Georgia since 2000. Previously, Dr. Piercy taught similar courses at Towson University. He received a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering at Tennessee Tech and he received his MBA and Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Georgia. As an engineer and later as an academic, Dr. Piercy has long been interested in information technology and how it can be used to solve problems and improve our lives. He is a co-author for two texts - Learning to Program with VB6, 2nd edition and Business Information Systems. His primary area of research is in developing algorithms to support decision making. In particular, Dr. Piercy explores decision models which include multiple conflicting objectives. Dr. Piercy has recently been named as the Director for the Masters of Internet Technology program.
Hugh J. Watson
Dr. Hugh J. Watson is a Professor of MIS in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and a holder of a C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration. Dr. Watson is one of the world's leading scholars and authorities on decision support. He is the author of 22 books and over 100 scholarly journal articles. He helped develop much of the conceptual foundation for decision support systems in the 1970's and applied his knowledge and expertise to executive information systems in the 1980's. Alan Paller, Editor of the EIS Conference Report, described Hugh as "the nation’s foremost EIS researcher" a walking encyclopedia of what works and what doesn't. Over the past ten years, Dr. Watson has specialized in data warehousing.
Richard Watson
Richard Watson holds the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Department of MIS at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business. He is also the Director of the Center for Information Systems Leadership. Originally from Australia, Dr. Watson has been very active in international scholarly activities having taught in Australia at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University, where he founded the Department of Information Systems. He has been a visiting professor at Agder University College (Kristiansand, Norway), Fudan University (Shanghai, China), and an honorary advisor to Neusoft Institute of Information (Dalian, China). His active research has led to over 100 refereed articles in leading academic and practitioner journals, more than 10 books (including a data management text book). He has served as a senior editor for MIS Quarterly and was co-conference chair for ICIS2004. He is currently the Past President of the Association for Information Systems. His current research interests are u-commerce, net-based customer service systems, open source, and information systems leadership.