Dr. Jay E. Aronson

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  Ecolodge San Luis, Costa Rica
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Top Left: At a Sea Turtle Farm on Grand Cayman Island, December 2004.
Top Right: Crossing El Rio San Luis, near UGA's Ecolodge, San Luis, Costa Rica, July 2006.
Bottom: Colombia Guatavita Laguna, outside Bogotá, Colombia, June 2007

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Jay E. Aronson

Professor of Management Information Systems
Department of Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
Brooks Hall 307
Athens, GA 30602-6273  USA
Phone: +706.542.0991
FAX: +706.583.0037
Email: jaronson@uga.edu
URL:  www.terry.uga.edu/~jaronson/
URL: www.jayaronson.com


BRIEF BIOGRAPHIC SKETCH

Jay E. Aronson (B.S., M.S., M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.) is a professor of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia. Prior to this he was on the faculty at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX, U.S.A). He regularly teaches in the undergraduate American Business Studies Program at the Institut d'Administration des Enterprises at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon, France), and in the M.B.A and Executive M.B.A. Program at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University [Universiteit] (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Dr. Aronson is the author of over 50-refereed papers that have appeared in leading journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Decision Sciences. He is the author of four books (including Business Intelligence, Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, also translated into Chinese and Indonesian), and contributes to several professional encyclopedias. He is frequently invited to present his research at national and international conferences. He is also a consultant to major international corporations and organizations. Dr. Aronson’s current areas of research include knowledge management (including storytelling as a means to capture and distribute tacit [experiential] knowledge), revenue management, collaborative computing, network optimization, and parallel computing.

Jay lives in Athens, Georgia, is married to Sharon Aronson; they have three children: Marla, Michael and Stephanie. From June 2003 through January 2004, Jay dropped 80 pounds (36.4 kg.) in weight. Since then, Jay has maintained a net loss of between 70 pounds (32 kg.) and 80 pounds. This was done through a lifestyle change that includes daily exercise and intelligent eating. (Essentially: "if you don't make time for health, you will have to make time for illness." [Marilu Henner, January 2005]). In early 2005, he discovered Carl Honore's book In Praise of Slowness. Have a look! Hobbies include learning languages (currently Dutch and French), improvisational comedy (professionally), sketch comedy, storytelling, bicycling, exercise, music, magic, reading, travel, and photography.

MY UGA HOME PAGE

Directions for Getting to My Office

Directions from Athens to the Gwinnett University Center

Travel Pix

Family Pix

Improvisational Comedy Article From Columns Magazine, July 2006

BOOK

Web Site for the Turban and Aronson Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems  7th/6th editions, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005/2001.
 

DOCTORAL RESEARCH ADVICE

I wrote an article, Aronson, Jay E., "Working on the Doctoral Dissertation," Decision Line, September/October 2001, pp. 7-9.
This was part of a series that Julie Kendall asked people to write on working on a doctoral degree. If you are working on a doctoral degree, you should definitely look all of these articles up. Try the Decision Sciences Institute Web site at dsi.gsu.org .

The short version of the article that appeared in Decision Line is here:
    HTML Version: ShortWorkingonYourDissertation.html
    PDF Version:    32_5phd.pdf

The long version of the article (much more advice) is here:  LongAdvicetoDoctoralStudents.html

Click on the hot spot for the Parable about Doctoral Research mentioned in the article.
 

RESEARCH (Always Under Construction)

My current research interests include


Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 - CURRENT COURSE WEB SITES
Note - Specific Course Materials and Updates are only available on the WebCT Course Sites

MIST 2090 Introduction to Information Systems in Business Fall 2008 (But updates and specific course materials are only available from WebCT for Students in the Course:  www.webct.uga.edu)

MIST 7810: Advanced Software (Excel) Fall 2008 and Spring 2009

MIST 4600: Introduction to Programming (Java) Spring 2009



An Oldie But Goodie:

MIST 5620: Business Intelligence / Decision Support Systems Not Being Taught, but the Spring 2006 Semester Site is Active 


ROTTERDAM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Click for links for my work at the

Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands


UNIVERSITÈ JEAN MOULIN LYON 3
Lyon, France
American Business Studies Course Page

READINGS AND ACRONYMS

I got my readings and acronyms up on line. They can be reached at:

a. Readings that I like to mention in class - Good Stuff!

b. MIS/MSS/DSS acronyms that people use instead of English. Can you find the ones that aren't real?


SOME OF MY WEB SITES:

I'm still working on a number of personal and professional Web sites that right now I'm literally playing with. Since August
2005, they are not very interesting, but at least I own my own name. They are:

www.jayaronson.com

members.aol.com/JEAronson/myhomepage/profile.html

geocities.com/jayearonson/

The reason I list them here is mainly so I won't forget them!
 
I am also on Facebook and Myspace.

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Last modified: January 6, 2009