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Rohit Aggarwal (“ Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: the Relation between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth ”) is an Assistant Professor at the David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. His research interests include studying the avenues and challenges posed by User Generated Content (UGC) on businesses. Specifically, he investigates the underlying processes/conditions that alter the influence level of UGC on final business outcomes. His research helps firms and institutional investors in understanding the value of UGC and finding out ways to better utilize UGC. He is also interested in investigating online reputation mechanism designs that shape both the generation and utilization of UGC. Animesh Animesh (“ Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses ”) is an Assistant Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada. He studies the adoption, design, and impact of Internet technologies and electronic commerce. Animesh has a PhD from University of Maryland, a Master's in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor's degree in Business Studies from Delhi University. His research has been published in top journals, such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Marketing Science. Sinan Aral (“ Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity ”) is an Assistant Professor and Microsoft Faculty Fellow at the NYU Stern School. His research focuses on social contagion and how information diffusion in massive social networks affects information worker productivity, consumer demand and viral marketing. He received his BA from Northwestern, holds master's degrees from the London School of Economics and Harvard, and received his PhD from MIT. His papers are available at http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~saral Linda Argote (“ The Learning Curve of IT Knowledge Workers in a Computing Call Center ”) is the David M. and Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at The David A. Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. She received her PhD from The University of Michigan. Her research addresses organizational learning, innovation, organizational memory, knowledge transfer, and group processes and performance. Her work appears in leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Operations Research, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Science. Her book, Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge was a finalist for the Terry book award of the Academy of Management. She served as Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science from 2004-2010 and currently Vice-President of Publications for INFORMS. Erik Brynjolfsson (“ Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity ”) is the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School, the Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on the productivity effects of information technology, intangible assets, and the economics of digitization. His received an AB and SM from Harvard and a PhD from MIT. His papers are available at http://digital.mit.edu/erik Brian S. Butler (“ The Cross-Purposes of Cross-Posting: Boundary Reshaping Behavior in Online Discussion Communities ”) is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and Associate Professor of Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Pittsburgh CTSI. His research interests include online communities, social computing, and mass-collaboration; power, politics and IT; healthcare IS; knowledge management and community informatics. Dr. Butler's work has appeared in ISR, MISQ, Organization Science, JMIS, JCMC, CAIS, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Marco Caliendo (“ The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations ”) is the Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. He holds a doctoral degree in economics from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). Young Bong Chang (“ The Impact of IT-Related Spillovers on Long-Run Productivity: An Empirical Analysis ”) is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. His research interests are in the economics of information systems focusing on the business value of IT and outsourcing of information systems. He has presented his work at the International Conference on Information Systems, the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics and INFORMS. He received a PhD in Management with a specialization in Information Systems from the University of California, Irvine. Michel Clement (“ The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations ”) is a Professor of Marketing and Media Management, Institute for Marketing and Media at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He holds a doctoral degree in marketing from the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel (Germany). Sanjeev Dewan (“ Music Blogging, Online Sampling, and the Long Tail ”) is a Professor of Information Systems at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester, and his research and teaching interests are in the areas of the economics of information technology and electronic commerce. He received a best paper award from the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology in October 2009 and an INFORMS Service Award in February 2009. He has served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and is currently an associate editor at Management Science. Juan Feng (“ Performance-Based Advertising: Advertising as Signals of Product Quality ”) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. She holds a BA in economics from Renmin University of China, and a PhD in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University, with a dual degree in Operations Research. She serves on the editorial board of Decision Support Systems, and AE for E-Commerce Research and Applications. David Gefen (“ The Boundaries of Trust and Risk: The Quadratic Moderating Role of Institutional Structures ”) is an Associate Professor of MIS at Drexel, where he teaches strategic management of IT, database analysis and design, and VB.NET. He received his PhD from GSU and master's from Tel-Aviv. His research focuses on psychological and rational processes in IT implementation, which stem from 12 years of developing and managing large IT projects. His research findings are published in MISQ, ISR, IEEE TEM, and JMIS, among others. David is SE at DATABASE and a VB.NET textbook author. Ram Gopal (“ Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: the Relation between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth ”) His research to-date has been in the areas of data security, privacy and valuation, database management, intellectual property rights and economics of software and music piracy, online market design and performance evaluation, economics of online advertising, technology integration, and business impacts of technology. He enjoys working on research problems that are intellectually stimulating and have significant relevance for practice. His research methodology has consisted of operations research, set theory, differential calculus, applied probability and structural equation modeling tools. For empirical evaluation, he has employed the methodologies of prototype development and experimentation, simulation, and primary and secondary data analysis. Alok Gupta (“ Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: the Relation between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth ”) holds the Curtis L. Carlson School-wide Chair in Information Management at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He received his PhD in MSIS from UT, Austin in 1996. He has published over 50 articles in top Management Science, Operations Research, Economics and IS journals. He received the prestigious NSF CAREER award in 2001 for his research on Online Auctions. He serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, ISR, JMIS and DSS. Vijay Gurbaxani (“ The Impact of IT-Related Spillovers on Long-Run Productivity: An Empirical Analysis ”) is the Taco Bell Endowed Professor and Director of the Center for Research on IT and Organizations at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly and Communications of the ACM. He received a Master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Rochester. Carol Hsu (“ Institutional Influences on Information Systems Security Innovations ”) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University. She holds a PhD in information systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her current research interests focus on the organizational and cultural issues related to IS security management and technology implementation. Her work has been published in the MIS Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, and others. Monica S. Johar (“ Content Provision Strategies in the Presence of Content Piracy ”) is an Assistant Professor of MIS at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received a PhD in Management Science with a concentration in MIS from University of Texas at Dallas in 2006. Her research interests include software development, social networks, and knowledge management. She is a member of AIS and INFORMS. Her research has been published in IS journals such as Information Systems Research and Journal of Management Information Systems. Jee-Hae Lim (“ Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses ”) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Her research interests focus on the impact of IS events on financial measures in short and long-term value creation and pre and post- realized value. She has published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of ACM, Information and Management, Journal of Information Systems, and International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Kansas in 2006. Youngsoo Kim (“ The Learning Curve of IT Knowledge Workers in a Computing Call Center ”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Singapore Management University. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering from KAIST and MS in Management Engineering from KAIST. He received his PhD in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include economics of information systems, especially in the areas of online consumers' behavior and mobile communications and network. His research papers will appear and have appeared in Management Science and Information Systems Research. Ramayya Krishnan (“ The Learning Curve of IT Knowledge Workers in a Computing Call Center ”) is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the Dean of Heinz College. He has a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a MS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He has served as Department Editor for Information Systems at Management Science and is the past president of the INFORMS Information Systems Society and the INFORMS Computing Society. His current interests are in large scale network analysis. Nanda Kumar (“ Content Provision Strategies in the Presence of Content Piracy ”) is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He has published in Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Retailing, Quantitative Marketing and Economics and Marketing Science. He serves on the editorial boards of Marketing Science, Review of Marketing Science and IJORIS and reviews extensively for Management Science, OR, EJOR, ISR and Journal of Marketing Research among other journals. Subodha Kumar (“ Advertising Strategies in Electronic Retailing: A Differential Games Approach ”) earned his PhD from University of Texas at Dallas in 2001. He is an Assistant Professor at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He has published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Production and Operations Management (POM), IIE Transactions, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, and others. He has also co-authored HBS cases. He is a Senior Editor of POM. Jae-Nam Lee (“ Institutional Influences on Information Systems Security Innovations ”) is an Associate Professor in the Business School of the Korea University. He holds a PhD in MIS from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His research interests are IT outsourcing, knowledge management, information security management, and IT deployment and impacts on organizational performance. His published research articles appear in MIS Quarterly, ISR, JMIS, JAIS, IEEE TEM, and others. He serves on the editorial boards of MISQ, ISR, PAJAIS, and ECRA. Dengpan Liu (“ Advertising Strategies in Electronic Retailing: A Differential Games Approach ”) received the PhD degree in Management Science with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Iowa State University. Vijay S. Mookerjee (“ Advertising Strategies in Electronic Retailing: A Differential Games Approach ”) and (“ Content Provision Strategies in the Presence of Content Piracy ”) is the Charles and Nancy Davidson Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He holds a PhD in Management, with a major in MIS, from Purdue University. His research interests include social networks, software development, storage management, content delivery systems, and the design of expert systems. He has published in several Information Systems, Computer Science, and Operations Research journals. He serves (or has served on) on the editorial board of Management Science, Information Systems research, Operations Research, among other journals. Wonseok Oh (“ Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses ”) is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Yonsei University, Korea. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. His research interests include network theory, social networks, IT outsourcing, business value of information systems, and economic aspects of e-commerce. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, and is forthcoming in Production and Operations Management. Dominik Papies (“ The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations ”) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Media Management at the Institute for Marketing and Media, University of Hamburg, Germany. He holds a doctoral degree in marketing from the University of Hamburg. Paul A. Pavlou (“ The Boundaries of Trust and Risk: The Quadratic Moderating Role of Institutional Structures ”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on institutional trust building in e-commerce and dynamic IS strategy. His research appeared in Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly, among others. Paul received the MIS Quarterly Reviewer of the Year award in 2003 and the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award of the 2004 ICIS Conference. Alain Pinsonneault (“ Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses ”) Fellow-Royal Society of Canada, is the James McGill Professor and the Imasco Chair of Information Systems in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His current research interests include the organizational and individual impacts of information technology, user adaptation, ERP implementation, e-health, e-integration, strategic alignment of IT, and the business value of IT. He has published papers in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, the Journal of MIS, Small Group Research, Decision Support Systems, Organization Science, and the European Journal of Operational Research. Jui Ramaprasad (“ Music Blogging, Online Sampling, and the Long Tail ”) is an Assistant Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal. She received her PhD in Management in 2009 from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on social media and its impacts, largely on the consumption of digital goods such as music. Sabine Scheel-Kopeinig (“ The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations ”) is a research assistant at the University of Cologne. She holds a doctoral degree in marketing from the University of Cologne (Germany). Harpreet Singh (“ Putting Money Where the Mouths Are: the Relation between Venture Financing and Electronic Word-of-Mouth ”) is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He received his PhD in Business Administration (Information System) from University of Connecticut. His areas of research include user generated content, software innovations, online financial markets and social networks. His research combines theories from economics and sociology (social networks), and uses mathematical tools (econometric and analytical models) to provide distinctive insights into the problems in the domain of Information Systems. Detmar Straub (“ Institutional Influences on Information Systems Security Innovations ”) is a Regents' Professor of the University Systems of Georgia and the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of IS at Georgia State University, Detmar has published over 170 scientific papers, book chapters, or books. He is Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly and a former SE for ISR and JAIS. Former VP of Publications for the Association of Information Systems (AIS), he was inducted as an AIS fellow in 2005. Marshall Van Alstyne (“ Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity ”) is an Associate Professor of Information Economics at the Boston University. He received a BA from Yale and MS and PhD from MIT. His research focuses on information, technology, innovation, and networks. Papers can be found at http://ssrn.com/author=253298 . Xiaoqing Wang (“ The Cross-Purposes of Cross-Posting: Boundary Reshaping Behavior in Online Discussion Communities ”) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Decisions, Operations, and Information Technologies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Her research interests include online communities, computer supported collaborative work, and technology adoption and diffusion. Dr. Wang's work has appeared in JCMC, Journal of Medical Internet Research, ICIS, CSCW, CHI, HICSS, and Information Systems and E-Business Management. Jinhong Xie (“ Performance-Based Advertising: Advertising as Signals of Product Quality ”) is the Etheridge Professor of International Business at the Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida. She holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a recipient of INFORMS' John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, the Marketing Science Institute's Research Competition Award, and the Product Development and Management Association' Research Competition Award. She has served as Associate Editor of Management Science and Area Editor of Marketing Science. Sung-Byung Yang (“ Using Real Options to Investigate the Market Value of Virtual World Businesses ”) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Business Administration, Ajou University, Korea. He received his PhD from KAIST. He was a research fellow in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research interests include business value of IT, online communities, social networks, knowledge management, and customer relationship management. His research has been published in MIS Quarterly and presented at ICIS, HICSS, and many other major conferences. Yuliang "Oliver" Yao (“ Do Electronic Linkages Reduce the Bullwhip Effect? An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Manufacturing Supply Chains ”) received his PhD from the R.H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, and is currently an Associate Professor at Lehigh University. His research interests are in the inter-disciplinary fields of information systems and supply chain management, including business value of IT-enabled supply chains, economics of electronic commerce, and VMI, CPFR and CRM. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, etc. He received the E. Grovesnor Plowman Award from CSCMP in 2007, a prestigious award in the SCM field. He also received the 2009 Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award which highlights quality research and refereed scholarship in business and applied economic disciplines at Lehigh. Kevin Xiaoguo Zhu (“ Do Electronic Linkages Reduce the Bullwhip Effect? An Empirical Analysis of the U.S. Manufacturing Supply Chains ”) received his PhD from Stanford University, and is currently on the faculty of the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on innovation and technology strategy in a global environment, economic impacts of IT on firms/industries, electronic markets, IT-enabled supply chains, and competition in software, media and telecomm industries. His work has been published in top academic journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, Marketing Science, and MIS Quarterly, as well as in a book Global E-Commerce (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His research has been recognized by several Best Paper Awards in the field, and the prestigious CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. See more information at http://rady.ucsd.edu/~zhu .