Instructor Contact Information

At UGA's Ecolodge in the Cloud Forest, on a Wire Bridge over Rio San Luis,
San Luis, Costa Rica, July 2006

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Contact Information: Dr. Jay E. Aronson, Professor of Management Information Systems

Department of Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business
The University of Georgia
307 Brooks Hall
Athens, GA 30602-6273  U.S.A.
Email: jaronson@uga.edu (Always put MIST4600 as the subject lead with a meaningful subject and include your name in the message!)
Phone: + 706.542.0991
Fax: + 706.583.0037
URL: www.terry.uga.edu/~jaronson/
URL2: www.jayaronson.com

Office: Brooks Hall 307 (the third floor at the south end of the building facing Sanford Hall). My office is along the way to the Department of Management Information Systems Office. My mailbox is located in the Department of Management Information Systems Office, located down the corridor directly across from my office, then to the left. Mailboxes are inside the second office on the right.

MIS Department Phone: +706.542.3336

MIS Department Email: mis@uga.edu

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). At UGA, he teaches a variety of courses that include MIST 2090 (Introduction to Management Information Systems), MIST 4600 (Introduction to Computer Programming in Business), MIST 5620 (Building Effective Business Intelligence Systems), MIST 5630 (Building Effective Intelligent Systems), and graduate courses such as MIST 7810 (Advanced Software Development) specifically for MACC students, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management, and Revenue Management. 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). He has taught in the M.B.A and Executive M.B.A. Program at the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University [Universiteit] (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). He taught Revenue Management in the 2007 International Summer School at the Universidad de los Andes School of Management (UASM) in Bogotá, Colombia. 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 that include Xerox Corporation, Procter & Gamble, IMERYS, The United Nations, The Asian Development Bank, and others. 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. By August 2008, Marla had earned her B.S. in Management from Georgia Tech and is an accountant at Oxford Industries in Atlanta; Michael had completed his third year in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech and continues to coop at Halocarbon Corp.; and Stephanie started college at UGA. 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, French and Spanish), improvisational comedy (professionally), sketch comedy, storytelling, bicycling, exercise, music, magic, reading, travel, and photography.