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Education Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Cambridge, MA, Department of Civil Engineering, Transportation Systems Division, November 1974. Dissertation: Relationships Between Economies of Scale and the Shape of Transportation Networks. S.M., M.I.T., Department of Civil Engineering, June 1972. Thesis: Rationalization of Air Transportation Networks. S.B., M.I.T., Department of Electrical Engineering, June 1970. S.B., M.I.T., Department of Mathematics, June 1970. Professional Experience September 1986 to present. Babson College, Professor of Information Technology Management (Associate Professor prior to 2003 and Assistant Professor prior to September 1993). February 1982 to December 1992. Beta Principles, Inc., Newton, MA. Founder and President. Computer consulting, software development, management consulting, and training. September 1975 to February 1982. Simat, Helliesen & Eichner, Inc., Waltham, MA. Vice President (Senior Associate prior to 1981). Management and economic consulting in the field of air transportation. May 1975 to September 1975. U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA. Operations Research Analyst. December 1974 to March 1975; March 1974 to June 1974, part-time. M.I.T., Cambridge, MA. Research Associate; Research Assistant. September 1973 to March 1974; May 1972 to June 1973, part-time. Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Cambridge, MA. Senior Transportation Analyst; Transportation Analyst. September 1970 to June 1973, part-time. M.I.T., Cambridge, MA. Teaching Assistant. July 1970 to May 1972, part-time. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA. Systems Analyst. Teaching Experience Babson College, undergraduate courses taught: Babson College, graduate courses taught: Training and Executive Education: Books Information Systems: A Management Approach, 3rd edition, with Judith R. Gordon, Wiley, 2004. Essentials of Accounting Information Systems, with L. Murphy Smith and Kathy Smith, Leyh Publishing, 2003. Information Systems: A Management Approach, 2nd edition, co-authored with Judith R. Gordon. Fort Worth: The Dryden Press (Harcourt Brace College Publishers), 1999. Information Systems: A Management Approach, co-authored with Judith R. Gordon. Fort Worth: The Dryden Press (Harcourt Brace College Publishers), 1996. Activities and Readings in Information Systems, co-edited with Judith R. Gordon. Fort Worth: The Dryden Press (Harcourt Brace College Publishers), 1996. Refereed and Invited Journal Articles “Restructuring in Financial Services: A Transaction Cost Perspective,” with Paul Mulligan, e-Service Journal, Fall 2003. “Organizational Options for Resolving the Tension Between IT Departments and Business Units in the Delivery of IT Services,” with Judith Gordon, Information Technology & People, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2002): 286-305. “The Impact of Information Technology on Customer and Supplier Relationships in the Financial Services,” co-authored with Paul Mulligan, International Journal of Service Industry Management, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2002): 29-46. “Business Models for Integrated Personal Financial Services in a Networked Economy,” co-authored with Paul Mulligan, Strategic Finance (June 2002): 44-49. “Information Service Delivery: An International Comparison,” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon, Information Systems Management (Winter 2002). “The Entrepreneurial Opportunity of Integrated Financial Services,” co-authored with Paul Mulligan, Babson Entrepreneurial Review, (Spring, 2001). “Structuring the Interaction Between IT and Business Units: Prototypes for Service Delivery,” co-authored with Judith R Gordon, Information Systems Management 17, Number 1 (Jan-Mar 2000). “Leading with Information Technology,” Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications 1, Number 3 (1999):1-3. “Standardization of Information Systems and Technology at Multinational Companies,” Journal of Global Information Management 1 (1993): 5-14. “Organizational Hurdles to Distributed Database Management Systems (DDBMS) Adoption,” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon, Information & Management 22 (Fall, 1992): 333-345. “Tables, Trees and Formulas in Decision Analysis,” with S.C. Palvia, Communications of the ACM 35, Number 10 (October, 1992). “Solving Recursive Problems with LOTUS Macros,” Collegiate Microcomputer 8, Number 2 (May, 1990). “Rationalization of the European Air Net,” with R. deNeufville, Transportation Research 11 (Pergamon Press, 1977). “Design of Air Transportation Networks,” with R. deNeufville, Transportation Research, 7 (Pergamon Press, 1973). Book Chapters “An Infocratic Perspective on the Future Delivery of Personal Financial Services,” with Paul Mulligan, in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Idea Group Publishing, Forthcoming. “The Impact of Information Technology on Customer and Supplier Relationships in the Financial Services,” with Paul Mulligan, in Information Technology and e-Business in the Financial Services, Ivy League Publishing, 2004. “The Coming Infocracy: New Organizational Forms for the Delivery of Personal Financial Services,” with Paul Mulligan, in Computing Information Technology: The Human Side, Idea Group Publishing, 2003. Books Edited Information Technology and e-Business in the Financial Services, Ivy League Publishing, 2004. Computing Information Technology: The Human Side, Idea Group Publishing, 2003. Editorial Review Editor for the special issue of the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications on eBusiness in the Financial Services, December 2002. Senior Associate Editor for Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications, Ivy League Publishing Editorial review board member of Journal of End User and Organizational Computing, Idea Group Publishing Reviewed Presentations/Proceedings “How IT Makes Organizations More Innovative: The Influence of IT Capabilities on Organizational Innovation,” with Monideepa Tarafdar, AMCIS-2004, August 6-8, 2004. “The Coming Infocracy: New Organizational Forms for the Delivery of Personal Financial Services,” with Paul Mulligan, IRMA 2002 International Conference, May 19-22, 2002. “Business Model Drivers for Integrated Personal Financial Services,” with Paul Mulligan, Proceedings of the 2001 International Business & Economics Research Conference, October 8-10, 2001. Recipient of best paper award. “Structuring the Interaction Between Information Technology and Business Units: Prototypes for Service Delivery,” with Judith Gordon, Proceedings of the 1998 Decision Sciences Institute, November 1998. “Setting IS Standards in Multinational Companies: The Interaction between IS and Business Units,” with Judith Gordon, Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI) Proceedings, March 1998. “A Comparison of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and Conjoint Analysis Techniques for Multiple Criteria Decision Making,” with Laine O'Mara, Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI), 1995 Proceedings, March, 1995. “Factors Affecting the Success of Organizational Software and Hardware Standards,” co-authored with D. Rosenthal. In M. Khosrowpour (Ed.), Challenges for Information Management in a World Economy. Harrisburg: Idea Group Publishing, May, 1993. “Factors that Affect DDBMS Adoption,” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR Group, March, 1993. “Standardization of Information Systems and Technology at Multinational Companies.” In M. Khosrowpour (Ed.) Emerging Information Technologies for Competitive Advantage and Economic Development. Harrisburg: Idea Group Publishing, May, 1992. “Organizational Determinants of Distributed Database Management System Adoption,” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon. In M. Khosrowpour (Ed.), Managing Information Technology in a Global Society Harrisburg: Idea Group Publishing, May, 1991. “Mortgage Selection -- An Analysis of the Biweekly Option”, with Saber, J., 1990 NEDSI Proceedings, April, 1990. “Effectiveness and Efficiency of Different Modes of Presentation: Pedagogical and Practical Insights from an Experiment for the Decision Analysis Problem”, with Palvia, S., 1990 NEDSI Proceedings, April, 1990. “A Mathematical Formulation of the Requirements of an Order Preserving Hash Function”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI'89, Vol. 2, R. Janicki and W. Koczkodaj, eds., (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, May 1989). “A Taxonomy of Distributed Database Management Software”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing and Information, ICCI'89, Vol. 2, R. Janicki and W. Koczkodaj, eds., (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, May 1989). “Information Systems Priorities -- Are They Being Met?”, NEDSI 1988 Proceedings, P.J. Billington, Ed., March 25, 1988, Newport, RI. “Estimating the Market Share of International Air Carriers,” Proceedings of the Transportation Research Board, 1980, National Research Council, 1981. Also included in Transportation Research Record #768, NTIS, 1980. “On Propagation of Delay Through an Air Transport Network,” presented to the Fourth Intersociety Conference on Transportation, July 23, 1976. Selected Unreviewed Research and Case Publications “Organizational Structure and Control in the Delivery of Information Technology Services: A Typology,” Primavera Working Paper 2000-07, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2000. “The Delivery of IT Services: The Cases of the United States and the Netherlands,” with Judith R. Gordon, CIMS Working Paper Series 99-10, 1999. “Emerging Models for Supply Chain Management in the Financial Services: The Role of Information Technology,” with Paul Mulligan, CIMS Working Paper Series 99-08, 1999. “Structuring the Interaction Between Information Technology and Business Units: Prototypes for Service Delivery,” with Judith Gordon, CIMS Working Paper Series 98-01, 1998. “The Interaction between IS and Business Units in Setting IS Standards,” with Judith Gordon, CIMS Working Paper Series 97-07, 1997. “It Won’t Work in Kanji: The Case of Expert Systems Standardization at Global Sekiyu,” co-authored with Margaret Harding, in Information Management: A Management Approach, Steven Gordon and Judith Gordon. Fort Worth: The Dryden Press (Harcourt Brace College Publishers), 1996. “Benchmarking the Information Systems Function,” CIMS Working Paper Series 94-08, Babson College, November, 1994. “Pros and Cons of IT Standardization,” co-authored with D. Rosenthal. CIMS Working Paper Series 93-06, Babson College, July, 1993. “Organizational Issues and Distributed Database Management Systems Adoption” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon. CIMS Working Paper Series 93-02, Babson College, January, 1993. “Organizational Factors Affecting DDBMS Adoption,” with J.R. Gordon, Babson Board of Research Working Paper, Babson College, September, 1992. “Adopting Standards in a Global Environment,” CIMS Working Paper Series 92-05, Babson College, February, 1992. “Overcoming the Hurdles to Distributed Database Management System (DDBMS) Adoption,” co-authored with Judith R. Gordon. CIMS Working Paper Series 91-01, Babson College, January, 1991. “Structured Programming with LOTUS 1-2-3 Macros,” Babson College Teaching Note Series #TN-89-5, Babson College, December, 1989. “Biweekly Mortgages: Do they Really Decrease Costs?,” with John Saber, Babson College Teaching Note Series #TN-89-4, Babson College, 1989. “A Model for Evaluating Distributed Database Management Systems,” CIMS Working Paper Series: #89-04, Babson College, February, 1989. “A Senior Management Perspective on Information Systems,” with J. Kanter, CIMS Working Paper Series: 87-04-P, Babson College, June, 1987. Recent University and Divisional Service Fall 2004 to present, Honors Council Fall 2004 to present, Student Opinion Survey Task Force, Chairperson Spring 2004 to present, Faculty Compensation Committee Fall 2002 to present, CIMS faculty liaison. Fall 2002, Undergraduate Information Technology Management Elective Redesign Task force, chairperson. September 2000 to June 2002, Appointments DMB (first year as alternate). External Service January 2004 to present, Advisory Board for New England Information Security Group (NEISG). October 2002 to April 2003. Consultant, pro bono, Educational Development Center, development of information systems and technology curriculum module for 11th graders. Professional Society Memberships Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) Professional Certifications CompTIA Security+ Awards James Perry Term Chair (1994-1999) |