Varun Grover is the William S. Lee Distinguished Professor of Information Systems (Endowed by Duke Energy) in the Department of Management at Clemson University. Prior to this he spent 13 years building undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.    There he was Business Partnership Foundation Fellow and Professor of Information systems.  While his background is technical, most of his work is on the business implications of information technologies. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from I.I.T., New Delhi, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in MIS from the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Grover has published extensively in the information systems field, with over 150 publications in refereed journals. Six recent articles (published in Decision Line, Information & Management, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems) have ranked him 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd or 4^th in research productivity (among over 4000) researchers in the world in the top six Information Systems journals in the past decade.  Dr. Grover’s areas of interest are diverse, with much of his focus being on the effective deployment of IT initiatives in organizations. His work has been on generating value from IT investments, business process change, electronic commerce, strategic information systems, telecommunications and inter-organizational systems, and the organizational impacts of information technologies. These topics have been investigated using a number of methodologies including survey, experimental design, secondary data analysis, content analysis and case study.

Dr. Grover has published his work in refereed journals like Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, JMIS, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions, California Management Review, Database, Information and Management, Journal of Operations Management, among others. Some of this work has been funded by over $100,000 in grants from CIBER, through the US Department of Education. In 1997, he co-edited (with W. Kettinger) a book entitled Business Process Change: Concepts, Methods and Technologies with Idea Group Publishing, a follow-up book entitled Process Think: Winning Perspectives for Business Change in the Information Age, and is currently completing a book on Business Process Transformation (with M. Lynne Markus).  In 1999, he was awarded the Darla Moore's School of Business's Distinguished Researcher Award and Title. He is also the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Decision Sciences Institute.  Anbar Intelligence has recognized seven of his articles as having the “highest” (5-star) quality in rigor and relevance.  More recently he received the Stan Hardy Award from the Decision Sciences Institute for the outstanding paper published in the field of Operations Management.  He has also received best paper awards from AIS and JOM.  Dr. Grover was recognized by the PriceWaterhouse Coopers "Outsourcing World Achievement Award" for "making a difference in the industry for significant contributions to advancing the theory and practice of outsourcing." More recently, he received the Senior Scholar Research Excellence Award from Clemson.

Dr. Grover is currently Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the AIS and DataBase.  He is on the Board of Editors/Associate Editor of a number of journals (Journal of MIS, MISQ Executive, Journal of Information Technology Management, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Journal of Strategic IS, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Journal of Market Focused Management)  and the Advisory Editor of the Business Process Management Journal, Journal of IT Applications and Cases, Journal of eCollaboration, International Journal of Information Integrity, the monograph series Advances in  Management Information Systems and Wiley’s Internet Encyclopedia. He has also served as Developmental AE for MIS Quarterly, Special Editor (with W. Kettinger) for two issues (issue 2, issue 1) of JMIS on process change, one issue of JMIS (with Tom Davenport) on Knowledge Management, Special Editor (with A. Segars) for the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Special Editor for Database: Advances in Information Systems, and Special Editor for Decision Sciences.

On the teaching side Dr. Grover has been involved in a variety of courses, with particular emphasis on the core graduate information systems course, telecommunications, and doctoral courses in IS foundations and general research methods. He has taught in the International MBA program with Wirtschafts Universitat in Vienna, Austria, and provided seminars with Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santa Domingo.  Dr. Grover has chaired/co-chaired 17 Ph.D. dissertations in the Information Systems field, two of which have been nominated for National awards.  Recent placement of his students includes UNC, Chapel Hill, SUNY, Buffalo, Georgia State, Iowa State and the University of California.  He has also been involved as the Chair of over 50 Ph.D. Comprehensive and Qualifying Examination Committees. He is one of three faculties in the Moore School of Business to have been honored with the Alfred G. Smith Award for Excellence in teaching twice, in 1992 and in 1997 and is also a three-time recipient of the Outstanding MBA Professor award based on student votes.  Recently, he received the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award at CBBS, Clemson University.

Dr. Grover has chaired and participated in a number of Departmental and College Committees on curriculum and program redesign, teaching effectiveness, scholastic petitions, tenure and promotion, strategic planning, faculty recruiting, cross departmental and college alliances, professional ethics, faculty senate, among others.   Professionally, Dr. Grover co-chaired the 1996 MIS track for the National Decision Sciences Institute, which involved 236 paper, panel, and tutorial reviews, was the Associate Editor and on the Program Committee for the 1997, 1999, and 2004 International Conference for Information Systems, was faculty advisor for the MIS (new faculty) Camp and Doctoral Consortium for a number of AMCIS/ICIS meetings, and was co-chair of the 2005 AMICIS Doctoral Consortium.   In addition, he is very active in reviewing for journals and has reviewed for the NSF, SSHRC in Canada, and the Research Grants Council in Hong Kong.  He is currently the co-editor of the IS Effectiveness site on IS World.  Dr. Grover has been regularly interviewed for local and national media.  He has given keynote speeches at the Second Global Outsourcing Conference in NYC, the 4^th Annual Conference on IT and Management and the First Global Flexible Systems Conference in New Delhi.  In addition, he has participated in Speaker series in over two dozen universities in USA, Europe and Asia.  Dr. Grover is currently listed in Who’s Who of International Professionals, Who’s Who in Information Technology, Strathmore's Who's Who, Harvard’s International Directory of Scholars, and is a member of INFORMS, DSI, AIS, and ACM.

Along with Varun's professional activities, he enjoys spending time with his family and is an ardent sports fan (---particularly of the Pittsburgh Steelers!!!)