Haim Mendelson

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management

Codirector of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum

Phone: (650) 725-8927

Email: haim@gsb.stanford.edu

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Academic Areas: Operations, Information and Technology

Professor Mendelson leads the School’s efforts in studying electronic business and its interaction with organizations and markets, and incorporating their implications into the School’s curriculum and research. His research interests include electronic business, the information industries, electronic markets, supply chain management, and market microstructure. He has introduced the "Organizational IQ" concept which quantifies an organization’s ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. He has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society in recognition of outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. His papers have been published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, finance, management science, economics, and statistics.

Bio

Haim Mendelson is the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has been full professor at Stanford since 1989, following ten years of service at the Graduate School of Management at the University of Rochester. He has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society in recognition of outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. He has published more than a hundred research papers and more than 40 company case studies. His work was published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, finance, economics, management science, and statistics. He coauthored the book Survival of the Smartest that introduced the concept of Organizational IQ to quantify the ability of a company or organization to use information to make quick and effective decisions.

At the University of Rochester, he received a University Mentor award in recognition of outstanding service to the University, managed a large-scale research center studying the management of information systems, and was the Computer and Information Systems Area Coordinator. At Stanford he served or serves as codirector of the Global Supply Chain Management Forum; the School’s Center for Electronic Business and Commerce; the Operations, Information and Technology Area Coordinator; director of the executive programs on Electronic Commerce and Information Strategy for Competitive Advantage; codirector of the executive programs on Strategic Uses of Information Technology and Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Information Technology Industry; member of the Editorial Board of the Stanford University Press; and Chair of the University’s faculty committee overseeing distributed computing and administrative information systems. He teaches electronic business and commerce and leads the School’s efforts in incorporating their implications into its curriculum and research. He is or has been Associate Editor or member of the Editorial Board of Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Information Systems Research.

Professor Mendelson has been a consultant to leading high-technology companies, stock exchanges, financial services companies, management consulting companies, and industrial companies. Prior to joining academia, he served as Chief Systems Analyst of the Logistics Information Systems Center of the Israel Defense Forces. He directs and teaches in a number of executive education programs in the areas of electronic commerce, supply chain management, information technology strategy, organizational change, entrepreneurship, financial modeling, and general management.

Academic Degrees

PhD, Tel Aviv Univ., 1979, MSc, 1977, BSc, Hebrew Univ., 1972.

Professional Experience

At Stanford since 1989. Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 2006-07; Codirector, Center for Electronic Business and Commerce, 1999-2005; Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 1996-97; Graduate School of Business Faculty Fellow for 1991-92; Asst. Prof.-Prof., Simon School, Univ. of Rochester, 1979-89; Univ. of Rochester Mentor, 1985-86, in recognition of outstanding service to the university.

Selected Publications

  • Strategic Spot Trading in Supply Chains: Management Science, 53 (5), 742-759, 2007
  • Competitive Customization: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2007
  • Pricing and Priority Auctions in Queueing Systems with a Generalized Delay Cost Structure: Management Science, 2004
  • Strategic Trading, Liquidity and Information Acquisition: Review of Financial Studies, 17 (2) 295-337, 2004
  • An Extreme-Value Model of Concept Testing: Management Science, 2001

Working Papers

  • 1476: Information Technology and Time-Based Competition in Financial Markets
  • 1413: Information and Organization for Horizontal Multimarket Coordination
  • 1379: A New Approach to the Regulation of Trading Across Securities Markets
  • 1359: Information and Organization for Horizontal Multimarket Coordination
  • 1116: Liquidity, Maturity and the Yields on U.S. Treasury Securities
  • 1117: Volatility, Efficiency and Trading: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market
  • 1119: An Empirical Analysis of Software and Hardware Spending
  • 1248: Further Evidence on the Risk-Return Relationship

Selected Cases

  • EC37: Skype Technologies, S.A.
  • EC39: Social Games
  • OIT103: Electronic Medical Records System Implementation at Stanford Hospital and Clinics
  • E414: Prototyping: A Quick Introduction
  • EC13: Broker.com
  • EC21: Online Advice and Guidance
  • GS5: E-Greetings Network
  • EC28: CheckFree
  • OIT15: A Note on the Internet
  • EC25: Amazon.com: Marching Toward Profitability
  • EC32: Tesco Delivers
  • EC17: Dell Direct
  • EC24: Gateways to the Internet: AOL & Yahoo!
  • EC18: Schwab.com
  • EC34: Speeding Tickets: Internet Distribution And The Travel Industry
  • EC34: Speeding Tickets: Internet Distribution And The Travel Industry

Awards and Honors

  • Distinguished Fellow, in Recognition of Outstanding Intellectual Contributions to the Information Systems Discipline, 2009, The INFORMS Information Systems Society
  • Best Paper in Information Systems Economics prior to 1999, 1999, Workshop on Information System and Economics
  • All Star Paper: Asset Pricing and the bid-Ask Spread, 2001, Journal of Financial Economics
  • All Star Paper: Dealership Market: Market-Making with Inventory, 2001, Journal of Financial Economics
  • University Mentor, 1986, University of Rochester

Courses Taught

  • GSBGEN 525: From Business Concept to Business Plan
  • GSBGEN 535: Emerging Network-Based Consumer Services
  • OIT 256: Electronic Business (Accelerated)
  • OIT 356: Electronic Business

Centers/Programs

Affiliations

  • Assoc. Editor: Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery
  • Editorial Board: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Information Systems Research
  • Member: American Economic Assn., Econometric Society, American Finance Assn., Institute of Management Science

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