Instructor Contact Information

On a Wire Cable Bridge over Rio San Luis, at UGA's Ecolodge
in the Cloud Forest in San Luis, Costa Rica, Summer 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
Phone: + 706.542.0991
Fax: + 706.583.0037
URL: www.terry.uga.edu/people/jaronson/
URL2: www.jayaronson.com

Email Notes (Important): When you email me about course issues, use the eLC course email system. Always start the subject with "MIST7810: " and include a meaningful subject and put your name in the message (ideally as a signature). I might not respond to email without that information. (I teach other classes and need names and context beyond "Hey about what you said in class yesterday." Thanks for doing this.)

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 snail 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. In August 2008, Marla earned her B.S. in Management from Georgia Tech and became an accountant at Oxford Industries in Atlanta; In August 2009, Michael began his fifth year in Chemical Engineering at Georgia Tech; previously he co-opped at Halocarbon Corp.; and Stephanie started her second year 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, creative writing, music composition and performance (mostly guitar), bicycling, exercise, music, reading, traveling, and photography.