Professor Ephraim
R. McLean – “Eph” – has worked in
the computer field for 50 years and been a faculty member for 44 years. He
earned his bachelor and masters degrees in mechanical engineering at Cornell
University, graduating in 1958. After brief service in the U.S. Army as an ordnance officer, he worked for the Procter & Gamble Company for seven
years, first in manufacturing management and later as a computer systems
analyst, beginning in 1962. In 1965, he left P. & G. and entered the
Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
earning his master's
degree in 1967 and his doctorate in 1970.
While at M.I.T., he served as an instructor in the Sloan School and assisted
in the preparation of three books: The Impact of Computers on Management (MIT
Press, 1967), The Impact of Computers on Collective Bargaining (MIT Press,
1969), and Computers in Knowledge-Based Fields (MIT Press, 1970). In the fall
of 1969, Dr. McLean left M.I.T. and joined the faculty of the Anderson Graduate
School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the
founding Director of the Information Systems Research Program and three times
Chairman of the Information Systems area, both within the Anderson School.
While at UCLA, he won one of the $2 million grants from IBM for the study of the management of information systems (MoIS).
In the fall of 1987, he was named to the George E. Smith Eminent Scholar's
Chair in Information Systems in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia
State University in Atlanta, GA., only the second endowed chair in information
systems in the nation at that time and the first in Georgia. Since joining
GSU, he has helped the Computer Information Systems Department improve its
U.S. News & World Report's rankings to first in the southeast and among
the top ten in the nation. In 2002, he was named Regents' Professor, representing
less than one percent of the faculty in the University of Georgia System.
In 2007, he was appointed Chairman of the CIS Department at Georgia State.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of South Australia; the
Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University in The Netherlands; ESADE
Business School in Barcelona, Spain; and the Alexandria Institute of Technology
in Alexandria, Egypt.
Dr. McLean has published over 135 articles in such publications as
the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management
Review, Communications
of the ACM, Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly,
MISQ Executive, Journal of MIS, European Journal of Information Systems,
DATA BASE, and the Proceedings of ICIS, ECIS, HICSS, AMCIS, and NCC. In 2007,
a
survey published in the Communications of the AIS ranked his ISR paper (co-authored
with William DeLone) on “Information Systems Success” (1992)
as the most-cited IS research paper published in the world in the last 15
years.
A recent Google search found over 1,660 citations of his published works.
He is the co-author (with John Soden of McKinsey & Co.) of Strategic
Planning for MIS (Wiley Interscience, 1977), the first book on IS planning;
co-editor
of a book of programs entitled Management Applications in APL (UCLA, 1981);
co-editor of The Management of Information Systems (Dryden Press, 2nd ed.,
1994), and co-author (with Efraim Turban) of the textbook Information
Technology for Management (Wiley, 5th ed., 2005), the second largest selling information
systems textbook in the world at that time. He was a founding Associate Editor
for Research of the MIS Quarterly and, for seven years, the Co-Editor-in-Chief
of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, the oldest business-oriented
computer publication in continued existence.
Dr. McLean has three times served on the national Executive Council of the
Society for Information Management (SIM); helped found the SIM Southern California
and Atlanta chapters; and was Conference Program Co-chair in Los Angeles (1977)
and Atlanta (1999). In 1980, he hosted and co-chaired the Organizing Committee
for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) at UCLA and
was Conference Co-Chairman in Cambridge (1981); Conference Chairman in San
Diego (1986); and Conference Co-Chairman in Atlanta (1997). For ten years he
was the Executive Director of the ICIS and of the Association for Information
Systems (AIS) of which he was one of the founding members. In 1999, he was
recognized as one of the first Fellows of AIS, one of only seven in the world
so honored at that time.
In 1997, he and his co-author Stan Smits were recognized by ACM’s SIGCPR
for their ten-year contribution to computer personnel research; in 1998,
he was the first winner of the CIS Department’s Myron Greene Award
for Outstanding Teaching; and in 2003, he was honored as the "Information
Systems Educator of the Year" by the Association of Information Technology
Professionals (formerly DPMA). In 2007, he was designated as an ACM Distinguished
Lecturer;
and in December 2007, he was given the LEO Lifetime Achievement Award, the
highest honor in the world for academics in the information systems field.
He is a member of ACM, AIS, DSI, IFIP (a founding member of WG8.3), INFORMS,
Mensa, SIGCPR & SIGMIS (of ACM), SIM, and Sigma Xi (the scientific honorary
society).
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