ERIC K. CLEMONS is Professor of Operations and Information Management at The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests
include strategic information systems, information economics, the changes that information
technology enables in the competitive balance between new entrants and
established, previously dominant industry participants, and the impact of information
technology on procurement and outsourcing. Industries of focus include international
securities markets and financial services firms, consumer packaged goods retailing,
telecommunications, and travel. He specializes in assessing the competitive implications
of information technology, and in managing the risk of large-scale implementation
efforts. Dr. Clemons is also Project Director for the Reginald H. Jones Center's
Sponsored Research Project on "Information: Industry Structure and Competitive
Strategy" and senior fellow in the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.
His education includes an S.B. in physics from MIT and an M.S. and Ph.D. in
operations research from Cornell University. Dr. Clemons has twenty years on the
faculties of Wharton, Cornell, and Harvard, and consulting experience in the private
and public sectors both domestically and abroad.
Dr. Clemons is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of
Management Information Systems and the InternationalJournal of Electronic Commerce.
He served on the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment study of
securities markets and on the Quality of Markets Advisory Board of the London
Stock Exchange