Michael D. Smith is the Heinz Career Development Associate Professor of Information Systems and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University, with appointments at the Heinz College’s School of Information Systems and Management and the Tepper School of Business. He received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) and his Masters of Science in Telecommunications Science from the University of Maryland, and received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Dr. Smith's research relates to analyzing and designing efficient information exchanges. His research in this area has been published in leading Management Science, Economics, and Marketing journals and covered by popular outlets including The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Time Magazine and Business Week. He also jointly conducted some of the first academic research into the social welfare impact of increased product variety in Internet markets. This work was cited in Chris Anderson's bestselling, and artfully titled, book "The Long Tail."
Dr. Smith has received several awards for his teaching and research including the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award, the best published paper award runner-up for Information Systems Research in 2006, best paper nominations at the 2002 and 2004 International Conference on Information Systems and the 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, and the Best Teacher Award in the Masters of Information Systems Management program.
Prior to receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Smith worked extensively in the telecommunications and information systems industries, first with GTE in their laboratories, telecommunications, and satellite business units and subsequently with Booz Allen and Hamilton as a member of their telecommunications client service team. While with GTE, Dr. Smith was awarded a patent for research applying fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence techniques to the design and operation of telecommunications networks.
A full curriculum vita is available here.
Selected Grants and Awards:
- Motion Pictures Laboratory Research Grant,
“Analysis of Piracy in Online Secondary
Markets,” (with Rahul Telang), 2007.
- NET Institute Summer Research Grant, “Standards
Competition in the Presence of Conversion Technology: An
Empirical Analysis of the Flash Memory Market,”
(with Charles Liu and Chris Kemerer), 2007.
- Best Published Paper Award Runer-Up, Information
Systems Research, 2007, “Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An
Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and
Welfare Impact,” with Anindya Ghose, and
Rahul Telang.
- Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and
Innovation (CAPRI) Research Grant for “Competing
with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales
and Internet Piracy,” (with Rahul Telang), October
2006.
- NSF CAREER Award, "Designing Efficient Information
Exchanges: A Program for Research and Teaching,
IIS-04485216, 2005-2010.
- MISM Teaching Excellence Award Nomination, 2005.
- NET Institute Summer Research Grant, "Incentives and
Protocols for Self-Organizing Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer
Networks," (with Rahul Telang), 2004.
- MISM Teaching Excellence Award Winner, 2004.
- Best Paper Award Nomination, 2004 International
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
- Best Paper Award Runner-Up, 2004 Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
- Amazon.com Research Grant, 2003.
- Marketing Science Institute Research Award, "The
Profitability of Shopbot Design," #4-1191 (with Alan
Montgomery), 2002.
- Best Paper Award Runner-Up, 2002 International
Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
- National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Outstanding
Faculty Award, 2002.
- Carnegie Bosch Institute Faculty Development Grant,
2001.
- Berkman Faculty Development Award, 2000.
Selected Service Activities:
- Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly, 2008-Present
- Associate Editor, Management Science, 2004-2008.
- Associate Editor, Information Systems Research,
2003-2006.
- Associate Editor, Decision Support Systems and
Electronic Commerce, 2003-Present.
- Co-Chair, Workshop on Information Systems and
Economics, 2006.
- Program Committee, Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Berkeley, CA, June 2003.