Special Section: Strategic and Competitive Information Systems

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Eric K. Clemons

Eric K. Clemons is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests include strategic information systems, the use of information systems in international securities markets and financial services firms, the impact of systems on the distribution of consumer packaged goods and on retail services, and the impact of information technology on procurement and the nature of interfirm markets for intermediate goods and services. He specializes both in assessing the competitive implications of information technology and in managing the risk of large-scale implementation efforts. Dr. Clemons is also Project Director for the Reginald H. Jones Center’s Sponsored Research Project on Information: Industry Structure and Competitive Strategy and senior fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

His education includes an S.B. in physics from MIT and an M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University. In addition to twenty years on the faculties of Wharton, Cornell, and Harvard, Dr. Clemons has professional experience as a consultant in both the private and public sectors and in executive education both domestically and abroad. In his consulting practice, Dr. Clemons focuses on helping clients anticipate the fundamental impacts information technology will have on the structure of their industries and on the future strategies available to their firms. In addition to his more traditional consulting practice, he has added participation as a facilitator of strategic change. This has enabled his clients to manage the strategic risks of change more carefully, by engaging the client’s full senior team early in assessing the wide range of potential futures enabled by technology, in assessing the need for strategic change, and in the formulation of the broad outlines of strategies that are enabled by technology.

Dr. Clemons is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Management Information Systems and the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. He participated in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment study of securities markets and served on the Quality of Markets Advisory Board of the London Stock Exchange.

Bruce W. Weber

Bruce W. Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Information Systems Department of the Stem School of Business at New York University. His research examines the impact of information technology on financial markets and the effects of information systems on industry and firm economic performance. He has an A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Stern faculty, he held a faculty position in Information Management at the London Business School. In 1995, he was a visiting faculty member at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.