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Vallabh Sambamurthy

Vallabh Sambamurthy

Title(s)

Professor
Eli Broad Professor of Information Technology
Accounting and Information Systems

Contact Information

N207A North Business Complex
(517) 432-2916

Interests

Digital transformations, digital supply chain management, strategic management, project management, information technology management

Degree

PhD University of Minnesota

Courses

MBA 823 Information Technology Management
ACC 822 Analysis and Design of Enterprise Systems

Bio

Dr. Vallabh Sambamurthy is a Professor of Information Technology for the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has dedicated his time and effort to advancing the spread of international research and knowledge. With his expertise in information technology systematics, he has become increasingly aware of the need for taking and promoting an international perspective. For the past five to six years he has been deeply invested in international activities. As Editor-In-Chief of Information Systems Research (ISR), he has traveled throughout the world. Every summer he travels to China, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, India or parts of Europe to speak about his own research and to promote intellectual and scholarship development.

It has become Dr. Sambamurthy’s personal mission to expand the reach and scope of ISR and open new doors for other countries to publish in this internationally top-rated journal. He has taken on the role of ambassador to other nations to develop research systems, indoctrinate an understanding of mental toughness (dealing with failure to publish) and put a personal face on the journal. In his time as Editor-in-Chief there has been a 15-20 percent growth in the number of international submissions which encourages Dr. Sambamurthy to continue his course for international relations and cooperation. He would also like to see MSU make a greater effort toward building international cooperation, especially with his native country of India.

Dr. Sambamurthy conducts a lot of his own research in India, which is quickly gaining an international reputation as an “IT hub.” He works very closely with Indian companies and often sends doctoral students to India to collect data, conduct research and offer instruction. He desires to increase MSU’s international presence and hopes that in the future the university will bring in more international speakers, entrepreneurs, social/cultural icons and industry execs/leaders. Additionally, Dr. Sambamurthy’s research deals extensively with business outsourcing and hopes that MSU will provide more opportunities for international tours in which students can travel to India and meet with companies to get a sense of how things happen on the other end.

He has seen first-hand how technology has not only transformed how companies do business domestically, but also how they conduct business internationally. Technology has become a “strategic investment,” he notes, “it has become a platform for globalization.” Dr. Sambamurthy acknowledges the significance technology has had in compressing time and distance which has lead to the emergence of social collaboration and networking and created a new set of global citizens. This is the fundamental lesson he imparts to his students in giving them a global understanding of business.

When Dr. Sambamurthy joined the staff in 2002, he wasted little time and immediately began work on the creation of the Center for Leadership of the Digital Enterprise (CLODE) of which he stands as the Executive Director. CLODE takes an integrative look at how firms can improve through technology and it serves as a platform for companies and economic development. In the future, Dr. Sambamurthy hopes to expand the faculty to better serve global businesses.

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Vallabh Sambamurthy (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1989) is the Eli Broad Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He has previously served at the business schools at The University of Maryland and The Florida State University. He is a leading global expert on how firms leverage information technologies in digital innovation and competitive strategies. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Financial Executives Research Foundation, and the Advanced Practices Council (APC). He has published his research in top journals such as the Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Management. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Information Systems Research for a six year period during 2005-10. In recognition of the impacts of his scholarly work and teaching he was selected as Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society at INFORMS (2011), Fellow of the Association of Information Systems (2009), and the Distinguished Alumnus of the National Institute of Technology (Tiruchirapalli, India). He has also been awarded the John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Teacher Scholar Award by the Broad College and the Excellence in Research awards by the Accounting and Information Systems Department. Sambamurthy teaches courses related to the alignment of technology and business strategies in the Full Time MBA program. 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. His recently co-authored book, titled, Guiding the Digital Business Transformations: An Executive Agenda, provides actionable frameworks for achieving competitive advantage from information technologies. He is actively engaged with business executives and academics in China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, and Hong Kong in research, teaching, consulting, and executive education activities.

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