The Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) consists of three academic disciplines: Information Management, Operations Management and Risk (Decision Analysis, Quantitative Finance and Statistics).

The IROM Department has several outstanding and nationally ranked programs including the Undergraduate Management Information Systems program (ranked #4 by U.S. News and World Report), the MBA Information Management program (#3 by U.S. News and #5 by the Wall Street Journal), the Undergraduate Risk Management program (#7 by U.S. News) and the MBA Productions/Operations Management program (#13 by U.S. News). Learn more about IROM.

Information, Risk, and Operations Management News

MIS Team Represents McCombs at International Case Competition

Management information systems seniors Kristin Bonds, Victoria Cano-Calhoun, and Lance Polvado represented the McCombs Business School at the International Case Competition held at the University of Minnesota in April. The team worked on a case for the Minnesota Wild hockey team and their struggle to fill seats at their games. How could the team use social media to improve ticket sales and advertising revenue? The team's solution was to reinvent the marketing campaign, which they named "Unleash the Wild". Read more about the case competition here.

SCM Student Receives R. Gene Richter Scholarship

Supply chain management student Garrett Hopper is one of 10 students awarded a 2012 R. Gene Richter Scholarship. Hopper spent the 2011 summer at El Paso Corporation in Houston as a supply chain management intern. While there, he worked on several inventory optimization projects, one of which saved the company $50,000 through inventory optimization of one station, which led to savings projections of $3 million to $6 million company wide. Read more.

IM Program Entrepreneurship Celebration

Information technology is enabling value creation at an incredible rate. New companies, alliances, value chains, and business models are emerging as a result; information systems are the engine of innovation and entrepreneurship. The UT IM Program and the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship celebrated IM and UT entrepreneurs at the first-ever IM Entrepreneur Celebration (IMEC) on Friday, April 20, 2012.

Bursting the Bubble of Assumptions about 'Sponsored Research'

When Assistant Professor Ashish Agarwal worked with Wharton professor Kartik Hosanagar and Carnegie Mellon professor Michael D. Smith to test the "common assumptions about online ad auctions, they discovered that the reality was quite different from the hype." Read more about their research.

Dyer appointed to National Academies committee

Professor Jim Dyer was appointed to a National Academies project committee, Evaluation the Effectiveness of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture. Read more about the project here.

Tuttle receives Texas Exes Teaching Award

MIS Lecturer Clint Tuttle is the McCombs School of Business recipient of the 2012 Texas Exes Teaching Award. The award is student-nominated and student-selected. His teaching assistant, Vinay Mohan, was chosen as the McCombs recipient of the 2012 TA/AI award. All recipients will be honored at a ceremony on February 21 at the Alumni Center. Visit Texas Exes to learn more about the organization.

Paper Garners Honorable Mention by Decision Sciences Journal

Professor Steve Gilbert and two former doctoral students (Liwen Chen and Yusen Xia) received an honorable mention for the 2011 Decision Sciences Journal Best Paper Award for their article, “Private Labels: Facilitators or Impediments to Supply Chain Coordination.” The paper was recognized for its exceptional managerial significance, high level of intellectual stimulation, and academic contribution. To see all awards, visit the Decision Sciences Awards site.

Passion Comes from Emphasizing Detachment of Learning from Grades

"Teaching cannot and should not be about penalizing students for mistakes, but it should be about rewarding the learning." Prabhudev Konana, recently appointed chairman of the IROM department, spoke to India Abroad recently. Read more

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