Fulton Hall 460B
Telephone: 617-552-0465
Email: sam.ransbotham@bc.edu
ORCID
IT Security; Artificial Intelligence; and the Strategic Use of IT.
Sam Ransbotham is a Professor of Business Analytics. He teaches “Analytics in Practice” and “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.” Ransbotham served as a senior editor at Information Systems Research, associate editor at Management Science, and academic contributing editor at MIT Sloan Management Review. He co-hosts the podcast about using artificial intelligence in business, available on all major platforms.
The National Science Foundation awarded Sam an NSF CAREER Award, one of the NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty,” for his . INFORMS honored Sam with an , which recognizes “early career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contribution.” Sam earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, an MBA, and a doctorate, all from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before earning his doctorate, he founded a software company with a globally diverse client list, including the United Nations IAEA (Vienna), FAO (Rome), WHO (Geneva), and WMO (London). Since 2015, he has been an editor for MIT SMR’s Big Ideas initiatives, including and .
2019 Information Systems Research, Senior Editor
2019 MIT Sloan Management Review, Contributing Academic Editor
2017 MIT Sloan Management Review, Guest Editor for Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy
2017 McKiernan Distinguished Fellow
2017 INFORMS ISS Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award
2016Management Science, Associate Editor
2016 Information Systems Research, Associated Editor
2014 MIT Sloan Management Review, Guest Editor for Data and Analytics
2014 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2013 Best Young Researcher, Workshop on Health IT and Economics, (with Eric Overby and Mike Jernigan)
2013 Best Reviewer, INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology
2013 Marketing Science Institute Research Grant, 2013 (with Nick Lurie and Hongju Liu)
2013 Best Paper, Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence Track, ICIS (with Jerry Kane)
2013 Boston College Carroll School of Management Undergraduate Teaching Award
2012 Best Paper, Security and Privacy Track, ICIS (with Saby Mitra)
2011 Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Modeling Mobile Customer Behavior Grant (with Nick Lurie)
2011 Boston College Faculty Fellowship
2009 Runner-up for Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research (with Saby Mitra)
2010 Best Paper, Academy of Management, Organizational Communication and Information Systems Division (with Eric Overby)
2009 Google and WPP Marketing Research Award (with Nick Lurie)
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"." (With Hemang Subramanian and Sabyasachi Mitra.) Organization Science, 32 (3), 527-908. May-June, 2021.
“," (With Gerald Kane, Amber Young and Ann Majchrzak.) MIS Quarterly, 45. 2021.
"."(With Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, Francois Candelon, Michael Chu and Burt LaFountain.) MIT Sloan Management Review. 2020.
"" (With Zhuoxin Li and Jason Duan.) Production and Operations Management, 29 (4), 1032-1049. April, 2020.
"." (With Mario Kokkodis and Theodoros Lappas.) Information Systems Research, 31 (2), 607-626. June, 2020.
"." (With Shervin Khodabandeh, Ronny Fehling, Burt LaFountain and David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. October, 2019.
"" (With Nicholas Lurie and Honju Liu.) Marketing Science, 38 (5), 733-912. September-October, 2018.
"" (With Gediminas Adomavicius, Jesse Bockstedt, Shawn Curley and Jingjing Zhang.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 60 (2). November, 2018.
"." (With David Kiron, Phillip Gerbert, Martin Reeves and Michael Spira.) MIT Sloan Management Review. September, 2018.
“?” (With Eric Overby.) MIS Quarterly, 43 (1), 185-205. 2019.
"" (With Huigang Liang, Nianxin Wang, Yajiong Xue and Shilun Ge.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 59 (4), 2018.
"." (With David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. January, 2018.
"." (With David Kiron, Phillip Gerbert and Martin Reeves.) MIT Sloan Management Review. September, 2017.
"." (With David Kiron.) MIT Sloan Management Review. February, 2017.
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"." (With Robert Fichman, Ram Gopal and Alok Gupta.) Information Systems Research, 27 (4), 834-847. December, 2016.
"." (With David Kiron and Pamela Prentice.) MIT Sloan Management Review, 56 (3). March, 2015.