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The MISRC is announcing the following three research papers: Optimal Timing for Software Functionality Additions by Internet Portals Towards a Theory of Value Latency for IT Investments New Buyers' Arrival under Dynamic Pricing Market Microstructure: The Case of Group-Buying Discounts on the Internet

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The MISRC is announcing three research papers: A Case for Using Option Pricing Analysis to Evaluate IT Project Investments Risk-Taking Techniques for Eliciting Information for Probability Assessment

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We are now announcing three new research papers: Opening the "Black Box" of Network Externalities in Network Adoption Beyond the Hype of Frictionless Markets: Evidence of Heterogeneity in Price Rigidity on the Internet A Case for Using Option Pricing Analysis to Evaluate IT Project Investments

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System Design, Process Performance and Economic Outcomes: An Empirical Study of Letter of Credit Systems Integration in International BankingThe Impact of IT on Market Information and Transparency: A Unified Theoretical FrameworkModeling Network Decisions under Uncertainty: Countervailing Externalities and Embedded Options Value-at-Risk in IT Services Contracts

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Ripped from the Headlines: What Can the Popular Press Teach Us about Software Piracy? Doing Their Bidding: An Empirical Examination of Factors That Affect a Buyer's Utility in Internet Auctions A Combined Scale-and-Scope Theory of IT Industry Cluster Growth

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The University of Minnesota is well known as one of the founding schools for the MIS discipline and is home to the Management Information Systems Research Center and the MIS Quarterly. The Department has 10 tenured/tenure track faculty. The Department teaches courses and performs research in all areas of the information systems discipline including IT/IS in organizations, Economics of IS, Design

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Carlson School Information Systems professor receives $450,000 Career Award What: Carlson School of Management professor receives $450,000 Career Award from the National Science Foundation Who: Gediminas Adomavicius, assistant professor of information and decision sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Contact: Dawn Skelly, Carlson School of Management, 612-624-8770

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Rob Kauffman studies pricing strategies of Internet retailers and the expectation that the best prices are found online. When the Internet first arrived, knowledgeable observers thought it would change the way companies compete and make profits, and that consumers would turn to the Internet to get the lowest prices. However, outside of shopping for airline and hotel tickets and rental cars,

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Professor Fred Riggins with the Carlson School of Management explained what RFID is: "RFID is a tracking and monitoring system that basically consists of three parts. There's the RFID tag that goes on the entity or items that you want to track. There's a reader made of antennae that reads the presence of the RFID tag. And then it's hooked up to a system—a computer system—that has back-end

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Researchers at the Carlson School of Management have been studying current phenomena in the music industry. Their results suggest that we'll never hear or think about music in the same way again. Fifteen years ago, consumers bought much of their music on audio cassettes, fearing that CDs would make them obsolete. Today, consumers buy most of their music on CD and worry that MP3s will soon

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Debt Load Not Important Before Crash, Important Afterwards; Researchers Find Just the Opposite for Digital/Physical Product Offerings by Firms MISRC and School of Public Health Researchers Recognized with "Best Paper Award" in Xi'an, China at 2005 International Conference on Electronic Commerce First draft: August 22, 2005 Last revised: September 5, 2005 Beijing, China (August 22, 2005) -- On

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MINNEAPOLIS (June 7, 2005) - The Association for Information Systems (AIS), the largest international association for information systems research and teaching, ranked the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota seventh among 31 business schools in the United States, and ninth globally in research productivity in this specialty area, according to an article in the April 2005

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In September 2005, the Information and Decision Sciences Doctoral Program will welcome two new doctoral students to our program. They are: * Ms. SuJong Choi has a BA in Business Administration and Economics, and an MA in Business Administration from Sogang University of Korea. She also holds an MS in Statistics from Stanford University. Her professional experience is in IS, customer

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During March 2005, MISRC Director, Robert J. Kauffman, was appointed as a Senior Editor for the Elsevier journal Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. His appointment followed up his contribution of a special issue of the journal which appeared in Winter 2005, which was co-edited with Rahul Telang of the Heinz School of Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,

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On Monday morning, April 4, MISRC Director Rob Kauffman will be a guest at WCCO Channel 4 in the 6:00-6:30 time slot to discuss radio frequency identification (RFID). RFID is a new technology that is improving the way Minnesota businesses track inventory, and in the case of Mercy Hospital, actually tracks patients. RFID may also change the way that we do our grocery shopping. This technology

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Minneapolis, MN Gedas Adomavicius, a faculty member in the Information and Decision Sciences Department, was appointed as the Digital Technology Center Assistant Professor during February 2005. Gedas has a doctorate from the Courant Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, from New York University. He also conducted joint research with Professor Alex Tuzhilin at the Stern School of

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Twenty Carlson School MBA students studied outsourcing and then went on an extended field trip, developed by Mani Subramani (pictured), to India to explore all sides of the issue. They found it wasn't just about labor advantages, but also about making the most of time zones. Article originally in UMNnews as a feature story. By Jamie Proulx Published on February 12, 2005

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Senior Faculty from Wharton, Rochester and Minnesota Host HICSS Mini-Track at the January 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS); Carlson School Faculty Mark Bergen (Marketing), Alok Gupta and Rob Kauffman Participating Every year in early January, MISRC Director, Rob Kauffman, and colleagues, Eric K. Clemons of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

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On Sunday, October 21 at the INFORMS Conference on IS and Technology in Denver, Colorado, John Curtin, long-time Unisys friend of the MISRC, and now a senior manager at Hexaware responsible for global marketing and relationship development, was the keynote speaker in an invited panel session on "Research Directions for RFID." John initiated the discussion with an overview of the technologies

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MISRC Researchers Nominated for “Best Paper Award” at 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science for New Research on Changing Market Structure in the Digital Music Industry In October 2004, Information and Decision Science 2nd year doctoral student, Jesse Bockstedt, was nominated for a “best paper award” at the January 2005 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, in the

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MISRC Researchers Win Another "Best Paper Award" at INFORMS Conference on IS and Technology for Strategic Pricing and Information Technology Research Good news on the research front! Information and Decision Sciences doctoral student Dongwon Lee, with Marketing Professor Mark Bergen and MISRC Director Rob Kauffman, won the "best research paper award" at the INFORMS Conference on Information

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Internet Enhances Exchange of Current ResearchThe MIS Research Center's Working Paper series, over the course of the last five years, has become an important repository for the pre-publication research of Carlson School faculty in the Information and Decision Sciences Department. MIS Director, Rob Kauffman, comments: "When I first came to the Carlson School in 1994, I saw that there was an

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The primary news regarding funded research at the MISRC for Fall 2004 is related to the MISRC's corporate members' support of our new business model. The MISRC receiving funding to conduct two new projects under the leadership of MISRC Director, Rob Kauffman, and Research Project Directors, Associate Professor Mani Subramani, for research on outsourcing and offshoring, and Assistant Professor

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MISRC Director Presents Keynote Speech in Beijing, ChinaI was fortunate this month to have the opportunity to give the keynote speech in the 2004 International Conference on E-Business, in Beijing , China on Monday, December 6, 2004. This year, I have been to China a couple times, and the rapid pace of economic growth and the extraordinary interest I see in information technology and

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For Outstanding Contributions to the IDSc Department in 2004 The Information and Decision Sciences Department and the MISRC recognize Associate Professor Dave Naumann, Assistant Professor Fred Riggins, Associate Professor Mani Subramani and MISRC Assistant Director Donna Sarppo for their outstanding service contributions to the Department and the MISRC during 2004. Dave Naumann has been highly

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