Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems (Graduate Program)

For information regarding the UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM, click here.  

Program Overview

The Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems offers two graduate degree programs: the MS in Analytics and the PhD in Business Administration with a concentration in EIS(Entrepreneurship & Information Systems). These programs are discussed below.

Administration

Admission

Applications and supporting materials for all graduate study must be submitted through the online application site for the LSU Graduate School. Official transcripts, official test scores, and materials that come from third-party sources must be mailed to: LSU Office of Graduate Admissions, 114 West David Boyd Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803. These documents are stored electronically. Departments have access to all materials submitted by and/or on behalf of a student applying to graduate study (see gradschool.lsu.edu/ for more information).

Minor in ISDS

Students minoring in ISDS must take 12 hours of 5000-level or higher courses. At least six hours must be ISDS PhD core courses, i.e., ISDS 7950 , ISDS 7080 , ISDS 7081 .

Students with a major outside the E.J. Ourso College of Business may be required to enroll in one or more remedial courses before taking other courses in the department.

Students minoring in ISDS and with a GPA less than 3.5 in ISDS courses shall be required to take a four-hour written exam designed and evaluated by their minor professor.

The evaluation of the written exam shall be reported to the graduate advisor in the student’s major department rather than to the student.

Graduate Faculty

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Ali Ahmed (6A) Economics of information security, cyber-attacks, data breaches, and crowdsourcing
A. J. Burns (6A) • Behavioral and organizational information security, Privacy, Cybersecurity and cyber risk, Information assurance, Human-computer interaction
Joseph Cabral (6A) • Innovation strategy, startup-incumbent collaboration and entrepreneurial finance
Ye-Sho Chen (M) • Global eBusiness, knowledge management, technological entrepreneurship, doing business in China
Young H. Chun (M) • Probabilistic modeling, software quality management, decision analysis, information economics, data mining
James Davis ( ) management information systems, systems development, technology startups, CIO leadership
Rudy Hirschheim (M) • Information systems management and development, IT sourcing, philosophy of science, cybersecurity.
Nan “Peter” Liang (6A) • Information security and security training, malicious insiders, big data and application
Peter Kelle (M) Supply chain and operation management.
James Love ( ) management information systems, business analytics, database administration and business warehousing.
Yusi Ma () information systems, cybersecurity and networking, AI risks and privacy concerns.
G. Tyge Payne (M) • Configurations and Equifinality; Entrepreneurial Networks and Social Capital; Family Business; Organizational Virtue and Ethics; Strategic Entrepreneurship; Venture Capitalism
Gabriele Piccoli (M) • Digital data streams, customer service systems, strategic information systems
Jonathon Preedom (6A) Entrepreneurial Narratives and Storytelling; Entrepreneurial Cognition; Investor Decision-Making; Venture Capital; Market Emergence; Venture Emergence
Shane W. Reid (6A) • Crowdfunding, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Family Business
Helmut Schneider (M) • Total quality management, supply chain management, data mining, and statistical analysis of crash data
Andrew Schwarz (M) • IT acceptance, adoption and use, IT governance, IT-business alignment; implementation and diffusion of technology within organizations, and future technology trends
Joni A. Shreve (3P) • Data mining and predictive modeling with an emphasis on classification analysis
Sohrab Soleimanof (6A) • Institutional Effects on Entrepreneurship, Transgenerational Entrepreneurship, Family Entrepreneurship, Family Business, Entrepreneurship Process
Edward F. Watson III (M) • Enterprise systems, digital transformation, IT innovation, decision support, simulation and serious games
Sonja Wiley (7M) • Healthcare informatics, Virtual healthcare, Healthcare Equality and Analytics, Technology adoption’s impact on Technology addiction, Engaging education via the Metaverse, Neurodiversity and IT, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness); Supplier diversity.
Theodore L. Waldron (M) Entrepreneurship, Competition, and Sustainability
David Whitchurch ( )  Predictive analytics; statistical inference methods; transportation safety analytics; structural equation modeling of human behavior in technology use

Programs

• Analytics Graduate Certificate

• Analytics, M.S.

• Business Administration, PhD (Entrepreneurship & Information Systems)