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Curriculum Vita
Education
1998 Ph.D. Information Systems The Wharton School,
University of
Pennsylvania
1996 M.A. Information Systems The
Wharton School,
University of
Pennsylvania
1992 B.S. Decision Sciences/Finance The Wharton School,
University of
Pennsylvania
Work
Experience
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University of Nevada, Las Vegas, College
of Business, Las Vegas, NV.
2006-present.
Associate
Professor Management Information Systems (2006-present).
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University of Arizona,
The Eller
School of Management, Tucson, AZ. 1997-2006.
Assistant Professor Management Information Systems (1998-2006).
Lecturer Management
Information Systems (1997-1998).
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University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton
School, Philadelphia, PA.
1991-1997.
Research Assistant The Jones Center
Project on Technology, Strategy, and Industry Structure (1992-1997).
Teaching Assistant Operations and Information Management
Department (1992-1997).
Instructor Decision Sciences
Department (1992).
Research Assistant Finance Department (1991-1992).
Research Interests
1.
IT Value
2.
Software
Patent Policy Design
3.
IT Offshoring
4.
Social Costs
of Information Privacy
Teaching Interests
1.
Social and
Economic Impacts of IT
2.
User
Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation
3.
Financial
Decision-Making for IT Investments
4.
Information
Systems Analysis and Design
5.
IT Strategy
and Economics
Honors and Awards
1. Research Development Award. 2007. University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. ($10,000 research grant).
2. University Faculty Travel Award. 2007. University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. ($1,000)
3. Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding
Commitment and Contributions to Students of the Eller College. Spring 2005.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
4. MIS Professor of the Year. 2004.
Management Information Systems Association, University of Arizona.
5.
Certificate
of Appreciation for Outstanding Commitment and Contributions to Students of
the Eller College. Spring 2004. BPA Student Council, University of Arizona.
6. Best Paper Award (Best of Competitive
Strategy, Economics and IS Mini-Track). 2004. Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences,
Big Island, HI.
7. Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding
Commitment and Contributions to Students of the Eller College. Spring 2003.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
8. Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding
Commitment and Contributions to Students of the Eller College. Spring 2002.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
9. Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding
Commitment and Contributions to Students of the Eller College. Fall 2001.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
10. Honeywell Junior Faculty Fellowship. Fall 2001.
11. Faculty Small Grant Award. 2001.
Faculty Small Grant Program, University of Arizona
Foundation. ($5,000 research grant)
12. Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding
Commitment and Contributions to Students of the Eller College. Spring 2001.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
13. Faculty/Teaching Recognition Award. 2001.
Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, University of Arizona.
14. Best Paper Award (Best of Competitive
Strategy, Economics and IS Mini-Track). 2001. Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI.
15. Faculty/Teaching Recognition Award. 2000.
Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, University of Arizona.
16. Best Paper Award (Best of Competitive
Strategy, Economics and IS Mini-Track). 2000. Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI.
17. Excellence in Teaching Award. 1999.
BPA Student Council, University
of Arizona.
18. MIS Professor of the Year. 1998.
Management Information Systems Association, University of Arizona.
19. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. 1997.
Operations and Information Department, The Wharton School,
University of
Pennsylvania.
20. Best Paper Award (Best of Organizational
Systems Track). 1995.
Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI.
21. Martin Zweig Research Fellowship. 1991.
The Zweig Foundation.
Refereed Journal Articles
1.
Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “Disrupting the Knowledge
Supply Chain: An Organizational Learning Model of IT Offshore Outsourcing.” MIS
Quarterly.
2.
Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “What
Determines IT Investment Priorities?” Communications of the ACM.
3.
Thatcher,
M., Clemons, E. (forthcoming). “Bundling Economics under Information
Asymmetries in the Individual Health Insurance Market.” Journal of Information Technology Theory
and Application.
4.
Thatcher,
M., Pingry, D. (2007). “Software Patents
– The Good, the Bad, and the Messy.” Communications of the ACM 50(10) 47-52.
5.
Thatcher,
M., Pingry, D. (2007). “Modeling the IT
Value Paradox.” Communications
of the ACM 50(8) 41-45.
6.
Thatcher,
M., Kim, T., Pingry D. (2006). “Welfare
Analysis of Alternative Patent Policies for Software Innovations.” Decision
Support Systems 41(4) 803-823.
7.
Thatcher,
M., Pingry, D. (2004). “An Economic Model
of Product Quality and IT Value.” Information Systems Research 15(3)
268-286.
8.
Thatcher,
M., Pingry, D. (2004). “Understanding the
Business Value of IT Investments: Theoretical Evidence from Alternative
Market and Cost Structures.” Journal
of Management Information Systems 21(2) 61-85.
9.
Clemons, E.,
Hitt, L., Gu,
B., Thatcher, M., Weber, B. (2002). “Impacts of E-Commerce and
Enhanced Information Endowments on Financial Services: A Quantitative
Analysis of Transparency, Differential Pricing, and Disintermediation.”
Journal of Financial Services
Research 22(1) 73-90.
10. Thatcher, M., Oliver, J. (2001). “The Impact of Technology on
Product Quality and Firm Profits and Productivity.” Journal of Management Information
Systems 18(2) 17-45.
11. Thatcher, M., Clemons, E. (2000). “Managing
the Costs of Informational Privacy:
Pure Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance
Market.” Journal of Management Information Systems 17(2) 29-57.
12. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M. (1997). “Evaluating
Alternative Information Regimes in the Private Health Insurance Industry:
Managing the Social Cost of Private Information.” Journal of Management Information
Systems 14(2) 9-31.
13. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., Row, M. (1995). “Identifying
Sources of Reengineering Failures: A Study of the Behavioral Factors
Contributing to Reengineering Risks.” Journal of Management Information Systems 12(2) 9-36.
Papers Under Review
14.
Thatcher,
M., Pingry, D. (2007). “A Model of Optimal
Software Patent Policy.” (under review at Journal of Law and Economics).
15.
Thatcher,
M., Cha, H., Pingry, D. (2007). “A Model of
Optimal Offshoring Rate.” (under review at the Workshop
on Information Systems and Economics).
Work in
Progress
16. Cha, H., Pingry, D.,
and Thatcher, M. “The IT Value Paradox: Evidence from the Business
Leaders Confidence Index Panel Survey.”
17. Thatcher, M., Pingry,
D. “An Empirical Study of IT Value:
Determining the Role of IT Characteristics, Cost Structure, and Market
Structure.”
18. Thatcher, M. “An Empirical Study of IT
Value in the Hotel Industry.”
19. Thatcher, M., Pingry,
D. “Patent Leapfrogging in a Vertical Product Differentiation Model.”
20. Thatcher, M., Pingry,
D. “Do Stringent Novelty Requirements for Software Patents Increase
R&D Intensity and Social Welfare?”
21. Thatcher, M., Pingry,
D. “Economic Theory of Software Patent Protection Policy: A Review.”
22. Cha, H., Pingry, D.,
Thatcher, M. “Modeling the Impacts of Outsourcing Decisions on Firm
Knowledge and Costs.”
23. Cha, H., Pingry, D.,
Thatcher, M. “A Learning Model of Optimal Offshoring
Rate.”
24. Cha, H., Pingry, D.,
Thatcher, M. “A Real Options Framework for IT Offshoring.”
Book
Chapters and Other Publications
25. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “Information
Asymmetry, Newly Vulnerable Markets, and the Competitive Advantage of New
Entrants: Capital One Financial.” (accepted
for publication as a book chapter in Advances
in Management Information Systems, Rob Kauffman (ed.), ME Sharpe).
26. Clemons, E., Hitt, L., Gu, B., Thatcher, M., Weber,
B. (2002). “Impacts of E-Commerce and Enhanced Information Endowments
on Financial Services: Transparency, Differential Pricing, and
Disintermediation.” Journal of
Financial Transformation vol. 4.
27. Clemons, E., M. Thatcher, Materna,
R. (1997). “Scenario Planning for Corporate Real Estate Managers:
Strategic Implications for a Changing Business Environment.” The Research Bulletin (in the series
by the IDRC Foundation) n(15) 1-22.
Refereed Conference
Papers/Presentations
28. Thatcher, M. and D. Pingry,
“Determining Optimal Software Patent Design”, The Fourteenth Workshop on Information Systems
Economics, College Park,
MD, December 11 – 12,
2004. (no proceedings)
29. Thatcher, M., “The Impact of Technology on
Product Design, Productivity, and Profits: A Duopoly Model of Price-Quality
Competition”, Proceedings
of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences (CD/ROM), January 5 – 8,
2004, Computer Society Press, 2004, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2004/2056/08/205680216c.pdf
30. Thatcher, M. and J. Oliver, “The Impact of
Information Technology on Quality Improvement, Productivity, and Profits:
An Analytical Model of a Monopolist”, Proceedings of
the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System
Sciences, (CD/ROM), January 3 –
6, 2001, Computer Society Press, 2001, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2001/0981/08/09818055.pdf
31. Kim, T., Thatcher, M., and J. Wooders,
“Connection Quality and the Pricing of Internet Services”,
Proceedings of The 5th Informs
Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CD/ROM), November 2000.
32. Kim, T. and Thatcher, M., “Determining
Optimal Decisions for Investing in Connection Quality and Pricing Internet
Services: An Economic Model of Duopoly Competition Between Internet Service
Providers”, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on
Information Systems, August 10 –
13, 2000.
33. Thatcher, M. and E. Clemons, “Managing the
Costs of Informational Privacy: Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual
Health Insurance Market”, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (CD/ROM), January 4
– 7, 2000, Computer Society
Press, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2000/0493/07/04937060.pdf
34. Clemons, E. and M. Thatcher, “Capital One:
Information-Based Strategy in Newly Vulnerable Markets”, Proceedings
of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, January 6 – 9, 1998, Computer Society Press,
1998, Vol. VI, pp. 311-320.
35. Thatcher, M. and E. Clemons, “Restoring
Pooling in a Market with Extreme Information Asymmetries: Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual
Health Insurance Market”, The Eighth Workshop on Information Systems
and Economics, New York,
NY, December 11 – 12,
1998. (no proceedings)
36. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., Blecherman,
B., and D. Croson, “Information Technology
and Information Asymmetry: The Future of Private Individual Health
Insurance”, Proceedings of
the Thirtieth Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, January 7-10, 1997, Computer
Society Press, 1997, Vol. III, pp. 240 – 248.
37. Clemons, E. and M. Thatcher, “Models of
Varying Information Conditions in Individual Health Insurance: Simulation Results”, The Sixth
Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Cleveland,
Ohio, December 14-15, 1996.
(no proceedings)
38. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., and M. Row, “An
Integrative Framework for Identifying and Managing Risks Associated with
Large Scale Reengineering Efforts”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth
Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3
– 6, 1995, Computer Society
Press, 1995, Vol. IV, pp. 960-969.
Invited Presentations / Seminars
39. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy”,
20th Anniversary Research Symposium on Competitive Strategy,
Economics and IS symposium at the 40th Annual Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences, January 4 – 7, 2007.
40. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent
Policy”, Temple
University, December
2005.
41. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent
Policy”, Butler
University November
2005.
42. “Determining Optimal Software Patent
Design”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona,
Spring 2005.
43. “Welfare Implications of Alternative
Software Patent Policies”, MIS Fall Conference on Managing IT in
Networked Organizations, University
of Arizona, October
24, 2003.
44. “Technology Pays But Does It Enhance
Productivity? The Impact of
Technology on Product Quality, Production Costs, and the Economic Performance
of the Firm”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona,
Spring 2001.
45. “Managing the Costs of Informational
Privacy: Pure Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance
Market”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona,
Spring 2000.
Grants and Contracts
46. PI (100%). Research Development Award. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2007-2008. ($10,000).
47. PI (100%), Faculty Small Grants Program, University of Arizona Foundation, 2001. ($5,000).
Service
Activities
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Research
Committee (2007-present)
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MIS Merit
Committee (2007-present)
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MIS Graduate
Committee (2006-present)
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MIS
Undergraduate Committee (1997-2000, 2004-present)
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MIS Brown
Bag Seminar Coordinator (2001-2002)
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MIS
Recruiting Committee (1998-1999)
Dissertations Directed
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Hoon Cha (MIS). 2004-2007
(Assistant Professor at Salisbury
University)
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Taeha Kim (MIS). 1998-2002
(Assistant Professor at George
Mason University)
Dissertation Committees
Master’s Thesis Committees
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Steve Monroe
(MIS undergraduate). 2002
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Andy Moosman (MIS undergraduate). 2002.
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Reza Vaezi (MS in MIS). 2007
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Layla Radhi (MS in MIS). 2006
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Nicole Forgsen (MIS Ph.D. candidate).
2006
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Gabriel Alper (MIS undergraduate). 2002
Other Service Activities
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Program
Committee Member: 2006 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and
Technology (CIST), Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania (November 4-5,
2006)
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Program
Committee Member: 2005 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and
Technology (CIST), San Francisco,
California (November 12-13,
2005)
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Invited
Panelist: Becoming a Great Reviewer
for IS Journals, 2005 Americas
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Omaha, Nebraska
(August 11 – 14, 2005)
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Session
Chair: Strategy – Economics of
IT Track, MIS Fall Conference on Managing
IT in Networked Organizations, University of Arizona
(October 24 – 25, 2003)
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Associate
Editor (AE): Business, Markets, and
Economy Track, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona, Spain (2002).
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Reviewer for
the following refereed MIS journals and conferences:
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Management
Science
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Management
Information Systems Quarterly
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Information
Systems Research
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Journal of
Management Information Systems
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Decision
Sciences
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Decision
Support Systems
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Journal of
Electronic Commerce
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Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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International
Conference on Information Systems
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