Dr. Efraim Turban obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Industrial Engineering, MBA and Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. His industry experience includes eight years as an Industrial Engineer, three of which were spent at General Electric Transformers Plant. He also has extensive consulting experience to small and large corporations as well as to foreign governments. Representative clients include Bank of America, Coca Cola, NCR, HUD, Korean Airlines, Peat Marwick, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense.
In his thirty years of teaching, Professor Turban has served as Distinguished Professor at Eastern Illinois University, and as Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also taught courses in Operations Research, Statistics, Production Management, MIS, DSS, Expert Systems, and Electronic Commerce at UCLA, USC, Lehigh University, and Florida International University.
Dr. Turban served on the Board of Directors at Ambucare International (Miami, FL, 1978-1981) as well as several start-up companies in California. He was a Co-Recipient of the 1984 / 85 National Management Science Award (Artificial Intelligence in Management). In 1991, he was named Program Chairman of the IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Expert Systems, and in 1997 received the Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Achievement Award at California State University, Long Beach.
Dr. Turban has published articles in over 100 leading journals, including the following: Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Expert Systems,Operations Research, Expert Systems With Applications, Journal of MIS, Communication of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Heuristics, International Journal of Applied Expert Systems, The Journal of Investing, Accounting, Management and Information Systems, Computers and Operations Research, Computers and Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Omega, Human Systems Management, New Management and Information Resources Management. He has also published fifteen books, including best sellers such as:
Neural Networks: Applications in Investment and Financial Services (2nd edition) (co-editor with R. Trippi),Richard D. Irwin, 1996
Decision Support Systems and Expert Systems (4th edition) Prentice Hall, 1995; 5th edition, 1998
Expert Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence MacMillan Publishing Co., 1992.
Books in progress include Fundamentals of Electronic Commerce (2000) and Essentials of Managing Information Systems (2000)
Professor Turban is currently on the faculty at California State University, Long Beach, Department of Information Systems, College of Business Administration.
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Dr. Ephraim McLean obtained his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Cornell University
in 1958. After brief service in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps, he worked for Procter & Gamble
Co. for seven years, first in manufacturing management and later as a computer systems analyst. In
1965, he left P. & G. and entered the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, obtaining his master's degree in 1967 and his doctorate in 1970.
While at M.I.T., he began an interest in the application of computer technology to medicine, working
on his dissertation at the Lahey Clinic in Boston. While there, he was instrumental in developing the
Lahey Clinic Automated Medical History System. During the same period, he served as an
instructor at M.I.T. and also assisted in the preparation of the books The Impact of Computers on
Management (MIT Press, 1967), The Impact of Computers on Collective Bargaining (MIT Press,
1969), and Computers in Knowledge-Based Fields (MIT Press, 1970.)
Dr. McLean left M.I.T. and joined the faculty of the Anderson Graduate School of
Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the winter of 1970. He was the
founding Director of the Information Systems Research Program and the first Chairman of the
Information Systems area, both within the Anderson Graduate School of Management. In the Fall of
1987, he was named to the George E. Smith Eminent Scholar's Chair at the College of Business
Administration at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. McLean has published over 80 articles in such publications as the Harvard Business Review,
Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, MIS
Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Information & Management, Journal of MIS, Journal of
Risk and Insurance, DATA BASE, InformationWEEK, DATAMATION, ComputerWorld, and the
Journal of the American Hospital Association. He is the co-author of Strategic Planning for MIS
(Wiley Interscience, 1977), and co-editor of a book of programs entitled APL Application in
Management. He was a founding Associate Editor for Research of the MIS Quarterly and is currently
senior co-editor of the DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. He was twice on the
national Executive Council of the Society for Information Management (SIM). In 1980, he helped
organize the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and was Conference
Co-chairman in 1981 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Conference Chairman in 1986 in San Diego,
California; and Conference Co-chairman in 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is
currently Vice President for Affiliated Organizations of the new Association for Information Systems
(AIS).
In addition to university work, he has served as a consultant to such firms as the IBM
Corporation, General Electric Company, Atlantic Richfield Company, Digital Equipment
Corporation, BellSouth Corporation, the National Science Foundation, American Hospital Supply
Corporation, McCormick & Company, Security Pacific National Bank, Pennsylvania Financial
Corporation (now Primerica), and Citibank, N.A. of New York. He has also made executive
presentations and conducted management workshops in Asia, Australia, Europe, South Africa, and
throughout North America.
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Dr. James Wetherbe obtained his BBA in Systems Design at New Mexico State University and his MSA and Ph.D. in MIS from Texas Tech. He is now the FedEx Professor of Excellence and the Executive Director of the FedEx Center for Cycle Time Research at the University of Memphis, as well as Professor of MIS and director of the MIS Research Center at the University of Minnesota. He is internationally known as a dynamic and entertaining speaker, author, and leading authority on the use of computers and information systems to improve organizational performance and competitiveness. He is particularly appreciated for his ability to explain complex technology in straightforward, practical terms that can be strategically applied by both executives and general management.
Quoted often in leading business and information systems journals, Dr. Wetherbe writes regular columns and serves as a consulting editor for publishing companies. He is author of 17 highly regarded books and over 200 articles in the field of management and information systems.
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