Bala Iyer

Academic Division: TOIMProfessor Iyer received his Ph.D. from New York University with a minor in computer science. His research interests include studying digital businesses from an ecosystem perspective, exploring the role of IT architectures in delivering business capabilities, designing knowledge management systems using concepts from systems design, hypertext design and workflow management, querying complex dynamic systems, and designing model management systems. Recently, he has begun to analyze the digital titans to understand how the nature of competition has evolved and strategies for incumbents to respond. His previous work was in the software industry to understand the logic and patterns of emergence of architecture from two complementary perspectives. One: the emergent architecture as a network of connections among a set of components (modules) that interoperate across one or more platforms. Two: the emergent architecture is the result of moves and countermoves by different companies supplying these modules and platforms. He has published papers in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Information Systems, California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Communications of AIS, Decision Support Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society and in several proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference of Systems Sciences.

Academic Degrees

• Ph D, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
• M.Phil., Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
• MS, Louisiana State University
• BS, Anna University

Academic Interests

Technology, Operations, and Information Management

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Awards & Honors

2008 - Babson Faculty Research Fund Award

2007 - Advanced Practice Council Fellowship , Society for Information Management

2007 - Glavin Center for Global Management Fellowship

2003 - Dean’s Research Grant, School of Management

2003 - IBM Faculty Fellow, Thomas Watson Center

1995 - Beta Gamma Sigma

1993 - Decision Science Institute Doctoral Consortium

1993 - Engineers honors society

1993 - Industrial Engineers honors society

1989 - Doctoral Fellowship, New York University