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Sunil Mithas recently published a book "Digital Intelligence: What Every Smart Manager Must Have for Success in an Information Age" (January 2012).

Sunil Mithas co-authored paper, "The Satisfaction, Repurchase Intentions and Shareholder Value Linkage: A Longitudinal Examination of Fixed and Firm-Specific Effects," was selected as a finalist for "Best Practitioner Paper Award and Presentation" at Frontiers in Service Conference in College Park, Maryland. The award will be decided in June 2012.

Wedad Elmaghraby is coorganizing The 7th Annual Conference on Behavioral Research in Operations Management which will be held at the University of Maryland's downtown Washington DC campus this coming June.

Ritu Agarwal has been selected as a Fellow of AIS in October 2011. This award is in recognition of the valuable contributions Professor Agarwal has made to AIS and to the field of management information systems. It is a distinguished honor reserved for only a small number of distinguished scholars in the field.

Ritu Agarwal is honored University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of the year 2011.

Anand Gopal and his co-authors won the Chan Hahn Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Conference in August 2011. The paper is titled “Impact of New Product Introduction on Plant Productivity in the North America Automotive Industry”.

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Galit Shmueli recently self-published two books, available in print and in Kindle eBook formats: Practical Time Series Forecasting and Practical Acceptance Sampling. Galit started this "Practical Statistics" series, aimed at creating affordable, easy-to-distribute-globally, and reasonably short textbooks (Summer 2011).

Saul Gass and Arjang Assad, co-editors, published "Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators" (Springer Press July 2011).

Prem Swaroop PhD student, won a graduate research grant on Public-Sector Aviation Issues for the academic year 2011-2012. This award program is sponsored by the FAA. Swaroop’s project will be supervised by Professor Michael Ball.

CHIDS will be hosting the 2nd Annual Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE) on October 21-22, 2011.

CHIDS wins DHHS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Small Business Research and Demonstration Award to conduct general research, analysis, demonstration, and survey activities relating to Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). (Summer 2011)

DIGITS co-directed by Il-Horn Hann and Siva Viswanathan won two grants 1) a grant by MovieLabs to study cyberlocker and streaming piracy and 2) a grant by Facebook to study the economic impact of Facebook. (Summer 2011)

Ritu Agarwal has been appointed as the next Editor in Chief of Information Systems Research (effective Jan 1, 2011).

Frank Alt was elected Chair of the Maryland Higher Education Commission's Faculty Advisory Council for the 2010-2011 academic year.

Michael Fu's student Yongqiang Wang won the 2010 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award for the paper "A New Stochastic Derivative Estimator for Discontinuous Payoff Functions with Application to Financial Derivatives".

Michael Fu is appointed as the program director of NSF's Operations Research program starting Sept 13, 2010.

Bruce Golden has been invited to be a Plenary Speaker at the School on Graph Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, held in Erice, Sicily in September 2011.

Bruce Golden will receive the Harvey J. Greenberg Award for lifetime contributions to the INFORMS Computing Society In January 2011.

Bruce Golden’s student John Silberholz (B.S. 2010) won INFORMS inaugural prize for outstanding undergraduate research in operations research.

Bruce Golden was invited to present a Plenary Lecture in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Department of Management Science and Technology at Athens University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece in Nov. 2010.

Bruce Golden was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pierskalla Award for best paper in healthcare management science. The winner will be announced in Nov. 2010.

Sunil Mithas was invited to the Marketing Science Institute (MSI)’s sixth biennial Young Scholars Program taking place January 6-9, 2011, in Park City, Utah. Each of the invitees has been identified as a likely leader of the next generation of marketing academics.

Raghu Raghavan was awarded the 2010 Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize (MSSIP) by the European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO). The award was for a paper on Multi-Period Traffic Routing in Satellite Networks.

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DO&IT In The News

Summer 2010 - Maryland Public Television "Your Money & Business" program aired an interview with Raghu Raghavan in September on "How nonprofits can systematically allocate resources". S. Lele was interviewed in July by this program on BP’s social responsibility in the oil spill. Both interviews will be posted online here.

"DO&IT ranks fifth in contributions to the INFORMS practice literature.
Editorial: The Eighth Rothkopf Rankings of Universities’ Contributions to the INFORMS Practice Literature, Interfaces by Fricker Jr., Ronald D., November-December 2009, Vol. 39, No. 6

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Decision, Operations & Information Technologies

Overview

The use and proliferation of technology has created a paradigm shift in the way in which organizations buy and sell goods and services, and integrate their supply chain and delivery systems. Technology has also resulted in fundamental transformations in the structure, form, and governance of organizations. Today, information systems and networks represent the critical infrastructure on which corporations and the economy depend not only for the execution of operations, but also increasingly for the formulation of strategy and for competitive differentiation. Corporate leaders must learn to manage enterprises in a netcentric environment by effectively executing the e-infrastructure transformation, extracting the maximum strategic and tactical advantage based on technology use, and designing and implementing electronic marketplaces.

The Decision, Operations and Information Technologies (DO&IT) Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business seeks to help organizations meet this challenge through its leading-edge research and educational programs. Faculty are involved in the development of state-of-art decision, and information management processes and tools, and in providing thought leadership related to the management of organizations in an increasingly digital economy.

Faculty research in Information Systems, Management Science, Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Statistics and Data Analysis has had international recognition.

Members of the Operations Management / Management Science Group were ranked eighth in the nation based on the number of publications appeared on top OM/MS journals (according to UTD Research Ranking for the period 2008 - 2011) and sixth in the nation for the practices of operations research (Interfaces, 1997).

Members of the Information Systems Group were ranked first in the nation based on the number of publications appeared on top IS journals (according to UTD Research Ranking for the period 2008 - 2011). U.S. News and World Report ranked the Smith School as having the fifth best program in management information systems. The Wall Street Journal ranks Smith's information technology program #6.

Department Vision

Increase our research impact on policy and practice
Reach out to industry and government in teaching and research
Educate students for viable careers
Do what we preach – create world-class department operations