{{Short description|American academic of management/IT}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|bio|date=December 2021}} {{promotional|date=December 2021}} }} {{Infobox academic |name = Benn Konsynski |image = |alt = |caption = Benn Konsynski |discipline = Information Systems, Business, Operations Management |workplaces = Emory University, Goizueta Business School, Harvard Business School, University of Arizona, |known_for = Decision support, inter-organizational information systems, business |awards = George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor, Baxter Research Fellow at Harvard, Hewlett Fellow at The Carter Center |website = }}
'''Benn Konsynski''' has been the George S. Craft Distinguished University Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University since 1994. Previously, he spent six years on the faculty at the Harvard Business School, where he taught in the MBA program and several executive programs. He also served as professor at the University of Arizona, where he was a co-founder of the university's multimillion-dollar group decision support laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.<ref name="Benn Konsynski, Emory University">{{cite web | url=http://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/academic_areas/isom/konsynski_benn.html | title=Benn Konsynski | access-date=1 July 2013 | publisher=Emory University | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823075557/http://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/academic_areas/isom/konsynski_benn.html | archive-date=2013-08-23 | url-status=dead }}</ref> He did a dissertation on "Computer Aided Logical Applications Software Design" under advisors Jay Frank Nunamaker Jr. and Andrew Bernard Whinston.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mathematics Genealogy Project|url=http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=81934|website=Mathematics Genealogy Project|access-date=28 December 2014}}</ref> He was also named Baxter Research Fellow at Harvard, and Hewlett Fellow at The Carter Center.<ref name="ACM TMIS Editorial Board">{{cite web|url=http://tmis.acm.org/bios/konsynski.html |title=ACM TMIS Editorial Board |access-date=1 July 2013 |publisher=ACM |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202235202/http://tmis.acm.org/bios/konsynski.html |archive-date=2014-02-02 }}</ref><ref name="Goizueta Magazine">{{cite web| url=http://www.goizuetamag.emory.edu/winter2001/cover.html |title=Goizueta Magazine |access-date= 1 July 2013 |publisher=Emory University}}</ref>
Konsynski specializes in issues of digital commerce and information technology in relationships across organizations and he has published in such diverse journals as Communications of the ACM, Harvard Business Review, IEEE Transactions on Communications, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Data Communications, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Research, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He is Director and founder of Emory University's Center for Digital Commerce.<ref name="Benn Konsynski - Forbes Magazine">{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/benn-konsynski/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140629162049/http://www.forbes.com/profile/benn-konsynski/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 29, 2014 |title=Benn Konsynski - Forbes Magazine |access-date=1 June 2014 |work=Forbes Magazine}}</ref> He has a strong following among his MBA students, who refer to themselves as S.O.B.'s ([http://www.goizuetamag.emory.edu/winter2001/cover.html Students of Benn]).<ref name="Benn Konsynski on the Future of Learning - Video">{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKveupc1EAM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/UKveupc1EAM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Benn Konsynski on the Future of Learning - Video |access-date= 1 July 2013 |publisher=Emory University}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Benn Konsynski External Advisory Roles ">{{cite web| url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=666820&privcapId=523394&previousCapId=108179869&previousTitle=Institute%20for%20Mobile%20Markets%20Research |title=Benn Konsynski External Advisory Roles - Video |access-date= 1 July 2013 |publisher=Business Week}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
Konsynski has served as a consultant on management and technology issues with many organizations. Some of the companies include, UPS, IBM, TESSCO Technologies, Harbinger Corporation, AT&T, Northern Trust, Texas Instruments, the U.S. Army, Digital Equipment Corporation, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, MicroAge, Ernst and Young, the Bank of Montreal, Plasti-line, J.C. Penney, Aetna Insurance Company, Turner Broadcasting Corporation, and Dillard's Department Stores. He serves on the board of directors at TESSCO Technologies, Miller-Zell, NuBridges, The Management Education Alliance, and other companies and non-profit institutions.<ref name="Benn Konsynski, Emory University"/>
Konsynski was part of the committee of faculty and students that organized Emory University's India Summit on February 17–18, 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=About The India Summit|url=http://www.halleinstitute.emory.edu/india-summit/about/index.html|website=Halle Institute Emory|access-date=10 November 2014|archive-date=10 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110031623/http://www.halleinstitute.emory.edu/india-summit/about/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the India Summit in 2012 Konsynski was on a panel titled “Technology, Identity, and Privacy: The Promise and Perils of India’s National Identity System". The India Summit has sought to build a strong relationship between India and Emory.<ref>{{cite web|title=India Summit Explores Digitizing Identity|url=http://www.emorybusiness.com/2012/03/12/india-summit-explores-digitizing-identity/|website=Emory Business|date=12 March 2012|access-date=23 November 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://works.bepress.com/benn/ Benn Konsynski's Scholarly Works at Bepress] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110315091142/http://works.bepress.com/benn/ |date=2011-03-15 }} {{Authority control}}
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