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Faculty Profile
EDUCATION
B.S., Industrial Administration, Yale University
Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Professor Lucas’ research interests include information technology-enabled transformations
of organizations, markets, industries and our daily lives. He has conducted research
on the impact of information technology on organizations, IT in organization design,
electronic commerce, and the value of information technology. Professor Lucas co-produced
and co-wrote The Transformation Age: Surviving a Technology Revolution with Robert
X. Cringely, a documentary co-developed by Maryland Public Television and the
Smith School shown on public television stations around the U.S. He has authored
a dozen 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 Inside the Future: Surviving the Technology
Revolution (Praeger, 2008), Strategies for E-Commerce and the Internet,
(MIT Press. 2002, 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).
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 where he was a research professor of information
systems from 1988-1998, and 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 INFORMS.
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