Staff

Laurel Miller

Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology
E-mail: laurel.miller@temple.edu

Laurel Miller holds a BS and MS in education from Temple University. She manages the external relations for the Institute for Business and Information Technology and the Department of Management Information Systems. As part of this work she manages the Fox IT Symposium Series, a panel discussion among industry leaders and the annual Fox School IT Awards. For the MIS department and the Fox School she also coordinates faculty and student projects with corporate and community partners, and a guest speaker series that places more than 20 industry experts every term into classes. She also manages the Fox School IT fellows program which consists of a group of high level industry professionals who work with the school on various projects.

Laurel also manages the administrative staff and operations of the Institute for Business and Information Technology and MIS department. Laurel helped start the Management Information Systems department when it was founded in 2000, and was its first full time administrative employee, she later moved on to become the Associate Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology in 2004. She was promoted to Director in 2006.

In May 2001 she won the ACM Student Organization Outstanding Service Award. Laurel also won the MIS Department Administrative Leadership Award in 2001 and 2003.

Munir Mandviwalla

Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Management Information Systems
Executive Director, Institute for Business and Information Technology
E-mail: Munir.Mandviwalla@temple.edu

Paul Weinberg

Professor of MIS and Executive in Residence
Senior Fellow, Institute for Business and Information Technology
E-mail: weinberg@temple.edu

Paul Weinberg has over 25 years of experience running information systems for large organizations both in the U.S and offshore. As a senior vice president of CIGNA Corporation, he was responsible for the technology component of CIGNA's e-commerce strategy, focusing on development of integrated employee benefits services. Prior assignments at CIGNA included senior vice president of managed care systems, vice president of international life and group systems (based in Reigate, England), and numerous management assignments including corporate systems. He held several positions at Aetna, Inc., including vice president of healthcare administrative systems. He has also managed technology support for a Philadelphia on-line computer services company. He has served on the adjunct faculty of Temple's computer and information sciences (CIS) department for 11 years. He earned his BEE degree from Cornell University and his PhD in CIS and his MS degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Moore School Research Fellow.

Youngjin Yoo

Research Fellow, Institute for Business and Information Technology
E-mail: Youngjin.Yoo@temple.edu

Youngjin Yoo is Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and IBIT Research Fellow at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. He is also the director of PhD program in Management Information Systems. Previously, he was Lewis- Progressive Chair of Management at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a PhD in information systems from the University of Maryland. At Case, he was a recipient of Walter Nord Grant and Glennan Fellow, both of which recognize his unique and innovative approaches to management education. He was a summer research fellow at NASA in summer of 2001 and spent a year as a research associate in 2003 – 2004 at NASA Glenn Research Center. He was also a visiting professor at Hong Kong City University and Tokyo University of Science in Japan.

He teaches students and executives on how to integrate design thinking and methods in organizational practices, innovation and the use of information technology. He worked with organizations including HUD, Accenture, E&Y, Alcoa, Bendix, Kirkland Capital, and Moen. He is a senior editor of Journal of Strategic Information systems and an associate editor of Information Systems Research. He also serves on the editorial board of leading journals including Organization Science, Information and Organization, and Journal of AIS.

Mart Doyle

Director of Career Development, Institute for Business and Information Technology
E-mail: mdoyle@temple.edu

In addition to teaching, Mart still has an active consulting practice doing work that ranges from network administration and network security assessments to business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning.

Mart teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels including the Fox School’s highly regarded International MBA and Executive MBA programs. Starting in the fall of 2007 Mart is teaching a non-traditional and innovative new course where, working as a unified team, a class of undergraduate students are implementing an ERP system for a fictitious copany. Mart utilizes many of the technologies that he uses for his clients in the classroom. For example, virtual machine technology is used on a regular basis in the architecture class. A complete virtual network, running on a single machine under virtual machine technology, is used to demonstrate many networking concepts in networking classes which he teaches.

As the Director for Career Development within the MIS department, Mart plays an active role helping students explore career opportunities within the MIS field, find internships, and secure permanent post-graduation positions. This includes one-on-one career counseling with every student that goes through the MIS program.