Stefano Grazioli

Assistant Professor of Commerce

Office phone: 434-982-2973
e-mail: grazioli@virginia.edu
Web site: http://www.comm.virginia.edu/grazioli

Education:

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, University of Minnesota
M.S., Computer Sciences, University of Minnesota
B.S., Economics, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Grazioli’s areas of expertise are the design and management of information systems. His current research focuses on information security and information quality.

Professional Activities:

Professor Grazioli has conducted research, educational, and training projects for major organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service, Norwest Bank, KPMG, and Informix (now IBM). The following is a selection of recent projects:

• “Managing Risk in Social Exchange” contrasts and compares tactics that foreign currency traders and auditors use to make sense of risk posed by interaction with others. It appeared as a book chapter in Psychological Explorations of Competent Decision-Making (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• “Tactics Used against Consumers as Victims of Internet Deception” summarizes the findings from the construction of the first research database of cases of Internet deception and fraud. It appeared in the 2003 issue of International Journal of Electronic Commerce.
• “Detecting Deception: Adversarial Problem Solving in a Low Base Rate World,” which appeared in the 2001 issue of Cognitive Science, proposes and tests a theory of deception and its detection. The theory is applicable to a wide range of organizational settings where information is strategically manipulated.
• “Perils of Internet Fraud: An Empirical Investigation of Deception and Trust with Experienced Internet Consumers” is the first experimental study of “phishing,” the widespread practice of deploying sites on the Web that mimic another site’s name or look for the purpose of stealing secrets or obtaining business directed elsewhere. It appeared in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

Professor Grazioli has taught information management, IT architecture, databases, and business process modeling in the United States and Europe. At the University of Virginia, Professor Grazioli teaches in the management of information technology master’s program. Professor Grazioli and Professor William Wilhelm organize the annual McIntire Hedge Fund Tournament. The 2006 tournament was partially sponsored by Wachovia.

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