Dr. Prabhudev Konana is Professor of Information Management, Distinguished Teaching Professor, William Seay Centennial Professorship in Business (effective September 1, 2008), CBA Foundation Advisory Board Council Centennial Fellow, and Assistant Director for Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) at the McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin. He received his MBA and Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Karnataka Regional Engineering College, India.

Research Interests

Dr. Konana's research interests are in business value assessment (Webcast of presentation at Dell DirectConnect conference), virtual communities and implications on market efficiency (some initial work), outsourcing and offshoring decision variables, next generation electronic brokerages, determinants of adoption of internet-based procurement, supply-chain management, study of beliefs and attitudes of online investors, determinants of satisfaction in online investing, and effects of IT in developing economy.

Awards

Dr. Konana is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, the highest teaching award at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recipient of several research awards and grants. He received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award ($295,438), NSF Information Technology Research grant ($499,996) (with Balasubramanian and Rajagopal), ICIS best paper runner up award, and CBA Foundation Research Excellence Award. He has also received grants from IBM, Intel, and Dell. He has received many teaching excellence awards including Hank and Mary Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Teaching, El Paso Energy Foundation Teaching Excellence award, Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Excellence award, and Elective Faculty Honor Roll, McCombs School of Business. He has been nominated by MBA students for outstanding MBA core faculty and faculty with outstanding ability to connect business with academics. He received the “Most Challenging Class” and “Most Looked Forward to Class” awards from Management Information Systems Association (MISA), Spring 2000.

Media Citation

Dr. Konana's research is cited in popular media including CNNFn, eCompany Now magazine, Business2.0, InternetWeek, NetworkFusion, Line56, Ticker magazine, Bloomberg Financial Network, IDG e-business World, Economic Times (India), Austin-American Statesman, Upside Today, Economic Times, Times of India, Business World (India), Indian Express, Star-Telegram, and Straight Times (Singapore). The popular media frequently refers to the e-business value assessment study, sponsored by Dell, Inc.

Teaching

Dr. Konana teaches the Information Technology Management, an MBA core class, E-Business systems development and database management. He created and led a successful global program on India. He has conducted several executive seminars on Internet economy, Internet strategy, Supply-chain management, wireless commerce, B2B procurement and data warehouse for managers in chemical, healthcare, semiconductor, retail, and utility industries in the U.S., Singapore, China, Finland, and India. He teaches ITM class for McCombs' Dallas Executive program.

Publications

Dr. Konana’s work has appeared in major refereed journals, such as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, Information Systems Research, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Decision Support Systems, IEEE IT Professional, Operations Research Letters, Information Systems, Information Processing Letters, and Journal of Systems and Software. His work has also appeared in numerous reputable refereed conferences in business and computer science disciplines. He received the best-paper runner-up award at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 1996.