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Steven R. Gordon
Professor of Information Systems and Technology
216C Babson Hall, Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457
Telephone: 781-239-4571
Fax: 781-239-6415
e-mail: gordon@babson.edu

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:  IT and Innovation,   Computer and Network Security,   Governance of IT Services,   IT Strategy

Dr. Gordon’s research and consulting interests focus on three areas: how IT affects corporate innovation, governance of information technology services, and e-commerce in the financial service industry. His research appears in the Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Information Systems Management, the International Journal of Service Industry Management, and other academic journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research and serves on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Organizational and End User Computing and on the Advisory Board of the CMR Institute of Management and Technology (Bengalore).

Dr. Gordon is a co-author of the textbooks Information Systems: A Management Approach (Wiley, 3rd edition) and Essentials of Accounting Information Systems (U. of Phoenix). He is the editor of Computing Information Technology: The Human Side (IRM Press) and Information Technology and E-Business in the Financial Services (Ivy League Publishing, 2004).

Dr. Gordon is a member of the Technology Information and Operations Management Division at Babson College. Before arriving at Babson, Dr. Gordon founded and served as president of Beta Principles, Inc., a developer and marketer of accounting software and reseller of computer hardware. He has also consulted to the airline industry at Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc (now SH&E). He holds a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.