Michael D. Smith is an American academic who is the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at the
Heinz College of
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
with joint-appointment at the
Tepper School of Business.
Education
Smith earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Science in telecommunications science from the
University of Maryland, College Park. He then received his PhD in management science and information technology from the
MIT Sloan School of Management in 2000
Career
Smith’s research uses economic and statistical techniques to analyze firm and consumer behavior in online markets, specifically markets for digital information and digital media products. His research in this area has been published in leading management science, economics, and marketing journals and in leading professional journals, including ''
The Harvard Business Review
''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. ''HBR'' is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Mass ...
'' and ''The Sloan Management Review''. His research has also been covered by press outlets, including ''
The Economist'', ''
The Wall Street Journal'', ''
The New York Times'', ''
Wired,'' and ''
Business Week
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''. Smith is co-author of the book ''Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment'' (MIT Press, 2016).
Smith has received several awards for his teaching and research, including the
National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER Research Award, the 2017 Carol & Bruce Mallen Award for lifetime published scholarly contributions to motion picture industry economic studies, the 2009 and 2004 Best Teacher Awards in Carnegie Mellon's Masters of Information Systems Management program, and the 2018 Dick Wittink Award for the best paper published in the journal ''Quantitative Marketing and Economics''. He was also recently selected as one of the top 100 “emerging engineering leaders in the United States” by the
National Academy of Engineering. Smith has served on the editorial boards of a variety of top journals, including as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and as an associate editor at ''Management Science and Management Information Systems Quarterly''.
External links
Home PageProfile at the Tepper School of BusinessSSRN Page with full list of working papers
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Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Living people
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Information systems researchers