Professor Eric K. Clemons

Professor of Operations and Information Management and Management

PhD, Cornell University, 1976; MS, Cornell University, 1974; SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970

Research Areas
Information technology and business strategy; risk-reward tradeoffs in outsourcing and off-shoring; information technology and financial markets; making the decision to invest in strategic information technology ventures; managing the risk of strategic information technology implementations; strategic implications of electronic commerce for channel power and profitability

Current Projects
Reginald Jones Center research project on strategic and competitive information technology. Working with major corporations to study impacts of information technology on the future of their firms and industries; special focus on financial services, consumer packaged goods distribution.

Professor Alex Edmans

Assistant Professor of Finance

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007; BA, University of Oxford, 2001

Research Areas
Corporate governance; executive compensation; information asymmetry and investment decisions; investment banking; behavioral finance

Current Projects
The role of large shareholders in corporate governance; Firms’ incentives to engage in long-run, intangible investment; The effect of stock prices on firm decisions; Optimal executive compensation schemes

Professor Noah F. Gans

Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management

PhD, Columbia University, 1996; MPPM, Yale School of Management, 1987; AB, Harvard College, 1983

Research Areas
Service operations management; logistics systems; stochastic processes and the control of queueing systems

Current Projects
Effective management of telephone call centers. Modeling customer reactions to variations in product and service quality. Effective simulation protocols for evalauating competing system designs.

Professor Robert A. Stine

Professor of Statistics

PhD, Princeton University, 1982; MA, Princeton University, 1979; BS, University of South Carolina, 1977

Research Areas
Credit scoring; model selection; pattern recognition and classification; statistical computing and graphics; time series analysis and forecasting

Current Projects
Use of spatial patterns in modeling credit defaults; auction strategies for selecting predictive factors in statistical models; models for the convenience yield of commodities.

Professor Abraham J. Wyner

Associate Professor of Statistics

PhD, Stanford University, 1993; BS, Yale University, 1988

Research Areas
Probabilistic modeling; information theory; entropy; data compression; estimation

Current Projects
The thrust of current research projects is the theoretical development of probabilistic models from information theory towards applications in statistics.