Mark Keil is the Board of Advisors Professor and Department Chair of Computer Information Systems (CIS) in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. His research focuses on software project management, with particular emphasis on understanding and preventing software project escalation—cases in which projects seems to take on lives of their own, continuing to absorb valuable resources without ever reaching their objectives. Keil’s research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, and other journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Sciences, and the Journal of Management Information Systems. He has also served as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, and as Co-Editor of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, his master’s degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and his doctorate in management information systems from the Harvard Business School.