Students

If you choose the academic life, you will always be two things at once: a student -- continuously uncovering and processing new knowledge; and a teacher -- conveying what you know to others. This dual life begins in the Ph.D.

At universities across the country, graduates of the information systems doctoral program at the W. P. Carey School challenge their students to think creatively and independently.

Online retailers looking to connect with customers and increase sales and profits would be wise to demonstrate values that appeal to those customers, according to researchers in the Department of Information Systems.

While shopping online for a computer a few years ago, Fred Riggins noted that three Compaq models offered the FireWire feature he wanted. The three were priced on a low, medium and high range, corresponding to which processor they used.

Barbara Hoffnagle had not contemplated becoming the first Chief Information Executive (CIE) at Salt River Project (SRP), the country's third-largest public power utility.

The rapidly globalizing world of business and information systems doesn't scare Nadine Yassine -- in fact, she welcomes it.

Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. is one of the largest distributors of electronics components, computer products and embedded technology, a company whose roots go back to 1921. But technology is more than a product at Avnet.

Software as a Service is reshaping corporate computing and eventually will become the means by which many small and medium-sized companies acquire and use most of their applications, say Information Systems Professors Julie Smith David and Michael Lee.

Many business school-based IT programs are balanced heavily toward technology, but not the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at the W. P. Carey School.

Information Systems Lecturer Matthew McCarthy says "there's no business that doesn't have IT coursing through it." That's why in the W. P. Carey School, all incoming students -- no matter what major they have chosen -- are required to take CIS 105.