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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Greetings all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University invites prospective students to its Ph.D. program in Management Information Systems (MIS). Accepted students will
be fully and competitively funded by the school. Profiles of our MIS faculty and their research areas are listed at:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://whitman.syr.edu/FacultyResearch/Faculty/Directory.asp#2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://whitman.syr.edu/FacultyResearch/Faculty/Directory.asp#2</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Interested candidates should send their application material by February 15, 2013 (see “Academic Area – MIS”), and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Details
about our Ph.D. program and the application process are available at: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://whitman.syr.edu/PhD/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://whitman.syr.edu/PhD/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Vitharana at
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="mailto:padmal@syr.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">padmal@syr.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Academic Area – Management Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Applicant Profile<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Individuals with a strong interest in Management Information Systems (MIS) should consider applying for the Ph.D. program. Applicants with
a background in accounting, finance or economics are preferred, given the MIS faculty’s expertise and membership in the accounting department.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Program Goal
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The goal of the Management Information Systems (MIS) Ph.D. program is to develop both research and teaching skills, and prepare doctoral students
for a successful academic career. Under the guidance of the MIS faculty, Ph.D. students explore various aspects of the management information systems discipline. Doctoral students are expected to conduct rigorous research publishable in high quality journals
in MIS and related fields such as accounting. Each student is expected to produce a publishable research paper by the end of his/her second year of study. Accepted students are expected to complete their program of study within four years. Besides research,
Ph.D. students are also trained and gain experience teaching MIS courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Program Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Ph.D. program is structured to allow students to take courses in: (1) the major field of study; (2) the supporting field; and (3) research
methodology. The program also requires that students begin a summer research project upon completion of the first year.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Major Field<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Students take twelve credit hours of the following doctoral-level seminar courses, where the same seminar may be offered in multiple semesters
on different specialized topics. Additional advanced graduate courses may be required, depending on the student's background.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MIS 930 – Management Information Systems Seminar
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ACC 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Accounting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">FIN 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Finance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">IST 830 – Seminar in Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Supporting Field<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A minor in Accounting is strongly recommended. A minimum of nine credit hours of PhD level coursework in a related supporting field is required.
Example courses are listed below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ACC 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Accounting
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">FIN 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Finance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MKT 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">SCM 960 – Doctoral Seminar in Supply Chain Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Research Methods<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">A minimum of 12 credit hours of advanced graduate level research methods courses must be completed. These will be determined in consultation
with the major advisor. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Summer Research Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Students begin a six credit hour summer research project during the summer following their first year in the program, and complete it by the
end of the second year. The project is directed by a faculty mentor in the major area of studies, with the aim of producing a paper of publishable quality. The final project is evaluated by the faculty mentor and one other faculty member in the major area.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Selected Faculty Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Michel Benaroch<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Dai Q., and Kauffman R.J., “A Vendor’s Perspective on Managing Outsourcing IT Services with
Service-Level Agreement Contract Flexibility,” <i>Journal of Management Information Systems</i>, Spring 2010, Vol. 26, No. 4, 321–362.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">. and Goldstein J., “An Integrative Economic Optimization Approach to IS Development Risk Management,”
<i>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering</i>, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 638-653, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Lichtenstein Y. and Robinson K., “Real Options in IT Risk Management: An Empirical Validation
of Risk-Option Relationships,” <i>MIS Quarterly</i>, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 827-864, December 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Donald Harter<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Harter, D.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> and Nan, N., "Impact of Budget and Schedule Pressure on Software Development Cycle Time and Effort,"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35(5) 624-637, September/October 2009
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Harter, D.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> and Slaughter S., "Quality Improvement and Infrastructure Activity Costs in Software Development:
A Longitudinal Analysis," Management Science, 49(6) 784-800, June 2003. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Harter, D.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> "Cognitive Support for Real-Time Dynamic Decision-Making," Information Systems Research (ISR),
12(1) 63-82, March 2001. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Padmal Vitharana<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vitharana, P.,</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> J. King, and H. Chapman, Impact of Internal Open Source Development on Reuse: Participatory
Reuse in Action, Journal of MIS, vol. 27, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 277–304.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Basu, A. and
<b>Vitharana P.</b>, Impact of Customer Knowledge Heterogeneity on Bundling Strategy, Marketing Science Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, July-August 2009, pp. 792-801.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Vitharana, P</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">., F. M. Zahedi and H. Jain, Knowledge‑based Repository Scheme for Storing and Retrieving Business
Components: A Theoretical Design and an Empirical Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 29, no. 7, July 2003, pp. 649-664.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Selected PhD Student Publications and Presentations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">James Goldstein<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Goldstein J.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Chernobai A., and Benaroch
M., “Event Study Analysis of the Economic Impact of IT Operational Risk and its Subcategories,”
<i>Journal of the Association of Information Systems</i>, Vol. 12, No. 9, pp.606-631, 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M. and
<b>Goldstein J.</b>, “An Integrative Economic Optimization Approach to IS Development Risk Management,”
<i>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering</i>, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 638-653, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Goldstein J.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Chernobai A., and Benaroch
M., “Economic Impacts of Information System Operational Risk,” <i>Workshop on Information Systems Economics, WISE’2008</i>, Paris, France, Dec. 10 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ajit Appari<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M. and
<b>Appari A.</b>, “Pricing E-Service Quality Risk in Financial Services,” <i>Electronic Commerce Research and Applications</i>, forthcoming.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Benaroch M. and
<b>Appari A.</b>, “Financial Pricing of Software Development Risks,” <i>IEEE Software</i>, September/October 2010, 65-73.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Appari A.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> and Benaroch M., “Monetary
pricing of software development risks: A method and empirical illustration,” <i>
Journal of Systems and Software</i>, 83 (2010) 2098–2107.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Yunjie (Calvin) Xu<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">Xu Y.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">
and Benaroch M., “Information Retrieval with a Hybrid Automatic Query Expansion and Meta-Search Procedure,”
<i>Information Retrieval</i>, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">41-65, January 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">Xu, Y.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";letter-spacing:-.1pt">
and Benaroch M., "Decision Tree Induction with Genetic Programming," <i>Proceedings of the Allied Academies International Conference (Academy of Info. and Mgmt Science)</i>, pp. 85-88, October 2000, Hawaii.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">PhD Student Awards and Placements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">James Goldstein: Best Dissertation Award 2010, Accounting Information Systems Chapter, the American Accounting Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">James Goldstein: Assistant Professor of Accounting Information Systems, Canisius College, NY (since 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ajit Appari: Post Doctorate Research Associate, Tuck School of Management, Mc College, NH (since 2008).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Yunjie (Calvin) Xu: Assistant Professor of Information Systems, National University of Singapore (since 2002-2010); Associate professor at
the School of Management, Fudan University, China (since 2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Padmal Vitharana<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Management Information Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">506 Whitman School of Management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">721 University Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Syracuse, NY 13244-2450<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:padmal@syr.edu">padmal@syr.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fax: (315) 443-5457<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://myweb.whitman.syr.edu/padmal/">http://myweb.whitman.syr.edu/padmal/</a>
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