Keynote Speakers

 

Robert Kauffman

Robert J. Kauffman

 

W. P. Carey Chair in Information Systems, W. P. Carey School of Business,

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 (rkauffman@asu.edu)

 

Director, MIS Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN  55455 (rkauffman@umn.edu)

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Robert J. Kauffman is currently the W. P. Carey Chair in Information Systems at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.  His joint appointments there are with the Departments of Finance, and Supply Chain Management, and also the new School of Computing and Informatics.  He is currently on leave from the University of Minnesota, where he recently completed six years of service as department chair.   Rob previously worked in international banking, and served on the faculty of the business schools of New York University (1988-1994) and the University of Rochester (1992) before moving to Minnesota in 1994. His graduate degrees are from Cornell University (M.A., 1979) and Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1988). His research focuses on senior management issues in IS strategy and business value, IT infrastructure investments, technology adoption, e-commerce and e-markets, and supply chain management. His research has been published in Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Managerial Decisions and Economics, and other IS, economics and computer science journals and conferences.


 

Chen Guoqing
Executive Associate Dean
Professor
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Email
chengq@sem.tsinghua.edu.cn