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Faculty Profile
EDUCATION
B.S., Industrial Administration, magna cum laude, Yale University
M.S., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Professor Lucas’ research interests include the impact of information technology on organizations, IT in organization design, electronic commerce, and the value of information technology. A prolific researcher, he has authored 11 books as well as monographs and more than 70 articles in professional periodicals on the impact of technology, information technology in organization design, the return on investments in technology, implementation of information technology, expert systems, decision-making for technology, and information technology and corporate strategy. His most recent books include Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in IT (Oxford University Press, 1999)
and The T-Form Organization: Using
Technology to Design Organizations for
the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 1996) and
Strategies for E-Commerce and the
Internet, (MIT Press. 2002).
He was the vice president of
publications for the Association for
Information Systems (AIS) from 1995-1998
and editor-in-chief of the AIS
electronic journals, Communications of
AIS and Journal of AIS from 1998-2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Professor Lucas has been a professor of information systems at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He has served as a faculty member at the Stern School since 1974, including as a research professor of information systems from 1988-1998, and as a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Applications and Information from 1978-1984. He also served as the Shaw Foundation Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and as a visiting professor at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He was a visiting researcher at Bell Communications Research in Morristown, New Jersey, and a consultant to Arthur D. Little, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors of a software supplier for satellite multicasting and has been a board member of a worldwide manufacturer and supplier of passive electronic components. Professor Lucas is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Systems, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Institute of Management Sciences.
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