Dr. V. Sambamurthy

Co-Chair, BTM Institute Research Council
Eli Broad Professor of IT and Executive Director, Center for Leadership of the Digital Economy, Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University

V. Sambamurthy (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989) is the Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology and the Executive Director of the Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has previously served on the faculties of the business schools at The University of Maryland and The Florida State University. He has expertise in how firms leverage information technologies in their business strategies, products, services, and organizational processes. He has researched issues related to the impacts of CIO and top management team characteristics on firms’ success with IT assimilation, the impacts of institutional forces on organizational IT assimilation, and the capabilities and factors associated with strategic leverage of IT. Most of his work has been funded by the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Advanced Practices Council (APC), and the National Science Foundation. His work has been published in journals such as the MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Management Science, Organization Science, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous jounals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He currently serves on the editorial board of Management Science. He is the editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research, one of the top journals for scholarly research on information systems.

Sambamurthy teaches courses related to the alignment of information technology and corporate strategy. He has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels and won teaching awards for his performance. He has been actively involved in executive education on current topics such as the shaping of digital business transformations, strategic alignment of IT, and the management of IT innovation in firms. He has worked as a researcher or a consultant with several Fortune 500 firms including AstraZenneca, 3M, General Dynamics, Owens Corning, Intel, Bell Atlantic, Freddie Mac, and BellSouth. Currently, he is the Co-Chair of the Academic Council at the Business Technology Management Institute, a new organization aiming to enhance executive understanding about strategic alignment of information technology, business strategies, and business processes.

For more information on V. Sambamurthy, please visit http://www.bus.msu.edu/acc/faculty.cfm?facultyid=426.