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Sam Ransbotham

Professor

David J. Mastrocola Dean's Faculty Fellow

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Sam Ransbotham

Contact

Fulton Hall 460B

Telephone: 617-552-0465

Email: sam.ransbotham@bc.edu

ORCID

Education

  • B.Ch.E., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • MBA, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D, Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests

IT Security; Artificial Intelligence; and the Strategic Use of IT.

Expertise

  • Big Data Analytics
  • Human Capital and Technology

Department

Business Analytics

Profile

Sam Ransbotham is a Professor of Business Analytics. He teaches 鈥淎nalytics in Practice鈥� and 鈥淢achine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.鈥� Ransbotham served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research, associate editor at Management Science, and academic contributing editor at MIT Sloan Management Review. He co-hosts the podcast about using artificial intelligence in business, available on all major platforms.听

The National Science Foundation awarded Sam an NSF CAREER Award, one of the NSF鈥檚 鈥渕ost prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty,鈥� for his . INFORMS honored Sam with an聽 , which recognizes 鈥渆arly career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contribution.鈥� Sam earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree in chemical engineering, an MBA, and a doctorate, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before earning his doctorate, he founded a software company with a globally diverse client list, including the United Nations IAEA (Vienna), FAO (Rome), WHO (Geneva), and WMO (London). Since 2015, he has been an editor for MIT SMR鈥檚 Big Ideas initiatives, including and .听

Selected Appointments & Awards

2019 Information Systems Research, Senior Editor
2019 MIT Sloan Management Review, Contributing Academic Editor
2017 MIT Sloan Management Review, Guest Editor for Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy
2017聽McKiernan Distinguished Fellow
2017 INFORMS ISS Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award
2016听Management Science, Associate Editor
2016 Information Systems Research, Associated Editor
2014 MIT聽Sloan Management Review, Guest Editor for聽Data and Analytics
2014 National Science Foundation聽CAREER Award
2013 Best Young Researcher,聽Workshop on Health IT and Economics, (with Eric Overby and Mike Jernigan)
2013 Best Reviewer, INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology
2013聽Marketing Science Institute聽Research Grant, 2013 (with Nick Lurie and Hongju Liu)
2013 Best Paper, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence Track, ICIS (with Jerry Kane)
2013 艾可直播 College Carroll School of Management Undergraduate Teaching Award
2012 Best Paper, Security and Privacy Track, ICIS (with Saby Mitra)
2011聽Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative聽Modeling Mobile Customer Behavior Grant (with Nick Lurie)
2011 艾可直播 College Faculty Fellowship
2009 Runner-up for Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research (with Saby Mitra)
2010 Best Paper, Academy of Management, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division (with Eric Overby)
2009聽Google and WPP Marketing Research Award聽(with Nick Lurie)

Selected Publications

  • "?" (With Eric Overb, and Michael Jernigan.) Management Science, 67 (7), 3985-4642. July, 2021.听

  • "." (With Hemang Subramanian and Sabyasachi Mitra.) Organization Science, 32 (3), 527-908. May-June, 2021.听

  • 鈥�," (With Gerald Kane, Amber Young and Ann Majchrzak.) MIS Quarterly, 45. 2021.听

  • "."(With Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, Francois Candelon, Michael Chu and Burt LaFountain.) MIT Sloan Management Review. 2020.

  • "" (With Zhuoxin Li and Jason Duan.) Production and Operations Management, 29 (4), 1032-1049. April, 2020.

  • "." (With Mario Kokkodis and Theodoros Lappas.) Information Systems Research, 31 (2), 607-626. June, 2020.

  • "." (With Shervin Khodabandeh, Ronny Fehling, Burt LaFountain and David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. October, 2019.

  • "" (With Nicholas Lurie and Honju Liu.) Marketing Science, 38 (5), 733-912. September-October, 2018.

  • "" (With Gediminas Adomavicius, Jesse Bockstedt, Shawn Curley and Jingjing Zhang.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 60 (2). November, 2018.

  • "." (With David Kiron, Phillip Gerbert, Martin Reeves and Michael Spira.) MIT Sloan Management Review. September, 2018.

  • 鈥�?鈥� (With Eric Overby.) MIS Quarterly, 43 (1), 185-205. 2019.

  • "" (With Huigang Liang, Nianxin Wang, Yajiong Xue and Shilun Ge.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 59 (4), 2018.

  • "." (With David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. January, 2018.

  • "." (With David Kiron, Phillip Gerbert and Martin Reeves.) MIT Sloan Management Review. September, 2017.

  • "." (With David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. February, 2017.

  • "T." MIT Sloan Management Review, 59 (1). May, 2017.

  • "." (With Robert Fichman, Ram Gopal and Alok Gupta.) Information Systems Research, 27 (4), 834-847. December, 2016.

  • "." (With David Kiron and Pamela Prentice.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 56 (3). March, 2015.

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