Peter A. Todd

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
Director, MS in the Management of Information Technology 16-Month Program
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Professor of Commerce
Area Coordinator-Information Technology

Office phone: 434-243-8988
e-mail: ptodd@virginia.edu

Education:

Ph.D., Management Information Systems, University of British Columbia
B.Commerce, Finance, McGill University

Areas of Expertise:

Professor Todd specializes in the management of IT. He conducts research on the adoption and diffusion of IT, the impact of IT on decision making, the management of IT personnel, and human-computer interface design. Current research projects include studies of IT adoption and satisfaction, the marketing of the IT function, factors influencing the retention of IT workers, and the influence of decision aids on decision-making strategy.

Professional Activities:

Professor Todd publishes articles in academic and professional journals, presents papers at professional meetings, and participates in executive education programs. Recent articles include "Solutions Driven Marketing: Providing a Link between Product Customization and Electronic Commerce," in Communications of the ACM; "Decision Aids and Compensatory Information Processing," in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; "Exploring the Impact of DSS, Cognitive Effort & Incentives on Strategy Selection," in Information Systems Research; "Strategies for Managing End User Computing on the Web," in Journal of End User Computing; and "The Impact of Information Technology on Decision-Making: A Cognitive Perspective," in Framing the Domains of IT Management Research: Glimpsing the Future through the Past.

Professor Todd serves on the editorial boards for Information Systems Research and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. He is co-chair of the 2001 Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems.