Chaos in clinics" was what one TV news broadcast called 2009's shortage of H1N1 vaccine. Once vaccine did start trickling into the supply chain, it was up to county officials to decide which healthcare providers would get the few doses available, and those decisions had to be made on the fly.

A hallmark of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program is the expectation that PhD students will participate in — and ideally publish — research during the first two years of what's typically a four or five year course of study.

Are great leaders born, or can we learn the behaviors of good leadership?

Most students don't really grasp the realities of CIS in the real world until they're actually in the real world, making the transition from the classroom to the first job a little jarring. A new W. P. Carey partnership aims to finally tackle that problem.

What is a non-commodity skill? David Woody, vice president for technologies at American Express, talked with us about the leadership qualities he looks for when hiring IT professionals. A member of the Professional Advisory Board at the W. P.

Ethan Owen already had a bachelor's degree when he decided to pursue the Computer Information Systems program.

There's little margin for error when you're in the business of selling electrons. After all, if an electron traveled around the world instead of bouncing around the nucleus of an atom, it would circle the earth some 8.3 times in one second.

It is a widely accepted assumption in the healthcare and information technology industries that electronic medical records in hospitals help reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care.

Before a bank offers you a mortgage re-fi, or a credit card company dangles a low interest rate before your eyes, some information-systems worker has probably pegged you as a promising prospect. He most likely used predictive modeling to do it, and it wasn't a quick, easy task.

Many business school-based IT programs are balanced heavily toward technology, but not the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at the W. P. Carey School.