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The team from the Department of Information Systems that created decision-support software to help distribute crucial H1N1 vaccine knew that for this project, speed trumped all other protocols.

In this podcast, faculty talk about the distinguishing characteristics of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program. Unlike many schools, the Department of Information Systems plunges its doctoral students into research right away.

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.

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.

 Despite summer session classes, the pace at the university slows a bit between May graduation and the start of the fall semester. But research activity among faculty never really loses momentum. Uday Kulkarni is one example.