The Pamplin School of Business awarded two new Distinguished Professorships, the “Emerald Distinguished Professor of Operations and Technology Management,” to Gary Mitchell and Mike Eom. The PSOBA Dean’s Advisory Boards in Seattle and Portland both mounted campaigns to raise the funds for these professorships. The Seattle board raised more money, giving it the naming honors, hence “Emerald,” after Seattle, the Emerald City. Congratulations to our outstanding faculty!
Dr. Eom’s areas of teaching include introductory MIS, systems analysis, database and Excel spreadsheet modeling, with research interests are in IS leadership, e-commerce, virtual organization, strategic use of IS, information technology valuation, and IS project management. He has published book chapters on virtual organization and global virtual teams and several publications in Journal of Management Systems, JITTA, and International Journal of E-Business Research.
Dr. Mitchell’s teaching experience includes Operations Management and Systems Analysis and Design. His current research interests include resource allocation in uncertain and highly risky projects, the impact of random shocks on production and service systems and supply chains, and software development economics. In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Mitchell has twenty years of experience in supply chain management and information systems, including founding a successful supply chain management solutions company he sold in 1997, and national responsibility for inventory management consulting (retail and wholesale companies) at KPMG.