Department of Operations Management & Information Systems

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The Department of Operations & Information Systems understands it’s one thing to create complex information systems and processes, and it’s another to know how to manage them in a way that makes a business more efficient, effective and competitive. Employees with these skills are considered invaluable assets to any company. That’s why demand for employees trained in Information Systems (IS) and Operations Management (OM) is skyrocketing, and why positions in these fields are some of America’s best paying jobs.

Information Systems

Whether in healthcare, manufacturing or retail, almost every aspect of any business relies on information systems. As an IS student, you will learn how to effectively manage the technical direction of business, solve technological issues and implement new technological advances and strategy in day-to-day operations so that the business can achieve a competitive advantage in the market.

Operations Management

Almost all major companies have complex operations that need to be managed well to maximize company profits. As an OM student, you will learn how to manage such operations by studying a wide range of topics including supply chain management, project management, process control and improvement, quality management, the Six Sigma business improvement methodology, inventory management, planning, scheduling, forecasting and simulation.

Degrees in Operations & Information Systems

Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.

IS Undergraduate
OM Undergraduate
MSIS
MSBA
Ph.D.

Department of Operations & Information Systems Faculty

Respected as some of the best in their field, Eccles School faculty are skilled teachers, innovative researchers and global thought leaders who are shaping the strategic pioneers of the future and transforming business practices worldwide.

Operations & Information Systems Faculty

OIS Conferences

The Department of Operations and Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business hosts or co-hosts three winter conferences: the Utah Winter Operations Conference, the Product/Service Innovation (PSI) Conference and the Winter Conference on Business Analytics. The three are annual conferences that take place during the early months of each calendar year. The conferences include research paper presentations by top researchers from across the world in the disciplines of operations management, information systems, product and service innovation and the interface between marketing and operations. In most years, they take place at or near one of Utah’s fabulous ski resorts and all conferences feature winter activities such as downhill skiing, cross-country skiing and snow-shoeing.

Operations Management Conference

Business Analytics Conference

PSI Conference

OSC & IS Speaker Series

Date Speaker University Time / Location Title
Feb. 8, 2019 Professor Raghav Rao University of Texas – San Antonio 10:30 a.m – Noon | SFEBB 7122 TBD
March 1, 2019 Professor Juan Serpa McGill University 10:30 a.m. – Noon
SFEBB 7122		 TBD
March 29, 2019 Professor Wenqiang Xiao NYU 10:30 a.m – Noon SFEBB 7112 TBD
April 5, 2019 Professor Beibei Li Carnegie Mellon University 10:30 a.m. – Noon
SFEBB		 TBD
April 5, 2019 Professor Nur Sunar UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School 10:30 a.m. – Noon
SFEBB 7122		 TBD
April 26, 2019 Professor Xue Bai Carnegie Mellon University 10:30 a.m. – Noon
SFEBB 7122		 TBD
April 26, 2019 Professor Roman Kapuscinski University of Michigan 10:30 a.m. – Noon
SFEBB 7112		 TBD

Date Speaker University Time / Location Title
Aug. 31 Professor Soo-Haeng Cho Carnegie Mellon University 11 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. | SFEBB 7122 A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways
Sept. 13 Professor Jan Van Mieghem Northwestern 1- 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7122

TBD
Sept. 21 Professor Annabelle Feng Purdue 1 – 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		 TBD
Sept. 28 Professor Vijay Mookerjee UT Dallas 1 – 2:20 p.m. SFEBB 7122 TBD
Oct. 5 Professor Ozan Candogan University of Chicago Booth School of Business 1 – 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7112		 TBD
Oct. 26 Professor Laurens Debo Dartmouth 1 – 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		 TBD

Date Speaker University Time / Location Title
January 19 Pei-yu Chen  Arizona State University 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		  Early Birds and Late Owls in Online Shopping? An Empirical Investigation of Individual Shopping Temporal Orientation and Its Effects
January 26 Leon Zhu USC 1- 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7122

RFQ, Sequencing, and the Most Favorable Bargaining Outcome
February 2 Wendy Duan George Washington University 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		 It Is More Than the Last Click: Investigating the Impact of Online Referral Channels on E-commerce Website Performance
February 19 Kostas Bimpikis Stanford University (GSB) TBD — SFEBB 7175 Spatial Pricing in Ride-Sharing Networks
March 2 Dr. Atalay Atasu, Associate Professor, Operations Management  Georgia Tech – Scheller College of Business 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
SFEBB 7112		 Leasing, Modularity, and the Circular Economy
March 9 Raghu Santanam Arizona State University 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
SFEBB 7112		 Consumer Search, Producer Entry, and Product Variety: Theory and Evidence from a Digital Product Market
March 30 Paul Pavlou, Sr. Associate Dean and Professor of IT & Strategy  Temple University 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
SFEBB 7112		 Do Electronic Medical Record Systems Inflate Medicare Reimbursements?
March 30 Haresh Gurnani 1:00 – 2:20 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		 Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release
April 13 Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Associate Professor Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 7122		 How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
April 27 DJ Wu, Professor in Management Information Technology Management Scheller College of Business, GA Institute of Technology 10:30 – 11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7122		 Platform Competition under Network Effects: Piggybacking and Optimal Subsidization 
April 27 Brian Butler, Professor & Senior Associate Dean University of Maryland College of Information Studies 1 – 2:30 p.m.
SFEBB 7122		 An Attraction–Selection–Attrition Theory of
Online Community Size and Resilience
May 23 Terry Taylor, Chaired Professor of Business Adminstration Haas Operations & Information Technology Management Groupp, University of California at Berkeley 2:30 -4:00 p.m.
SFEBB 7122

Date Speaker University Time / Location Title
October 7 Ozge Sahin, Assist Professor Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 7110
October 12 Christopher Forman, Professor Cornell 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 7122
October 28 Huigang Liang, Associate Professor East Caroline University 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 7122
November 4 Heshan Sun, Associate Professor Clemson University 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 5155
November 18 Hemant Bhargava, Professor UC Davis, Graduate School of Management 10:30 a.m.
SFEBB 7122		  Selling Platforms
February 6 Kamalini Ramdas London Business School
February 8 Nicos Savva London Business School 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7175
February 10 Dr. Anjana Susarla,
Professor		 Michigan State University 1:30-3:00 p.m.
SFEBB 3106		  Social Capital and Contract Design in Buyer-Supplier Networks
February 13 Jeremy Hutchinson-Krupat Darden UVA 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7172
February 17 Nils Rudi INSEAD 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7122
March 3 Georgia Perakis MIT Sloan School of Management 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7112
March 10 Terrence August University of California,
San Diego		 11:30 am – 1:00 p.m.
SFEBB 5155
March 14 Subodha Kumar Texas A & M 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 5155
March 31 Amit Mehra, Associate Professor University of Texas at Dallas 10:30-12:00 p.m.
SFEBB 3106		  Remedying Education with Personalized Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India
March 31 Ozalp Ozer Univ of Texas at Dallas 1:00-3:00 p.m.
SFEBB 3106
April 7 Felipe Caro UCLA – Anderson School of Management 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 5155
April 14 Jason Thatcher Texas A & M 1:30-3:00 p.m.
SFEBB 3160		  Social Media and New Employee Selection: How does new technology change an old game?
April 21 Greys Sosic USC Marshall School of Business 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7122
April 28 Fuqiang Zhang Olin Business School 10:00-11:50 a.m.
SFEBB 7122

Date Speaker Title Focus
April 26, 2016 Balaji Padmanabhan (USF) The Effects of Time Pressure and Cost Transparency on Recommender Systems for Healthcare Cost Reduction IS
Apr 22, 2016 Xuanming Su Omni-channel Retail Operations with Buy-Online and Pickup-in-Store OS
Apr 01, 2016 Yong-Pin Zhou Inventory Fulfillment Strategies for an Omni-Channel Retailer OS
February 19, 2016 Shawndra Hill (Microsoft) TV’s Dirty Little Secret:
The Negative Effect of Popular TV on Online Auction Sales		 IS
February 12, 2016 Jessica Clark (NYU) Who’s Watching TV? IS
February 8, 2016 Xiao Liu (Arizona) Social Media for Pharmacovigilance: A Distant Supervision Approach to Identify Adverse Drug Events IS
February 1, 2016 Jing Peng (Wharton) Participation vs. Effectiveness of Paid Endorsers in Social Advertising Campaigns: A Field Experiment IS
January 29, 2016 Zhen Sun (UT Dallas) Mixing Traffic Streams to Maximize Revenue for a Supply-Side Ad Network IS
January 22, 2016 Shun-Yang Lee (UT Anstin) Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising: “Likes” on Facebook Ads IS
January 8, 2016 Panagiotis (Panos) Adamopoulos
(NYU)		 Estimating the Impact of User Personality Traits on Word-of-Mouth: Text-mining Microblogging Platforms IS
Dec 04, 2015 Dorothee Honhon Learning from Clickstream Data OS
Nov 13, 2015 Robert Swinney Managing Social Responsibility in Supply Chains OS

Beyond the Classroom

Operations Management Club

Operations Management Club provides opportunities for graduate business students to network with local professionals in the operations management field. The club focuses on opportunities available within the arena for experienced and inexperienced students. You are able to meet local employers, future business colleagues and students within the MBA program. The club’s format includes lectures as well as workshops.

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TEK Club

TEK is focused on information systems and technology. Club members participate in workshops and competitions where they learn and apply pertinent IS career skills. You also network with industry insiders to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.

Check out all of our student clubs and other opportunities beyond the classroom.

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