Professor Warren McFarlan has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program, and several of the Social Sector programs. He teaches currently in the First Year Financial Reporting and Control course as well as in several short Executive Education programs. He is co-chair of the Senior Executives Program for China. In 1973, shortly after his appointment to full professor he, along with four other faculty members, was sent to Switzerland to set up the School's International Senior Management Program. He returned from Switzerland in 1975 to become Chairman of the Advanced Management Program, a position he held until 1978; and Chairman of all Executive Education Programs from 1977-1980. He was Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1991 to 1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations from 1995-2000, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Asia Pacific from 1999-2004. Warren's book, Connecting the Dots coauthored with Cathleen Benko appeared in 2003. Seizing Strategic IT Advantage in China coauthored with Professor Richard Nolan, and Professor Guoqing Chen of Tsinghua University, appeared in 2003 (available only in Chinese). Warren's newest book, Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases (seventh edition), coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2006. Creating Business Advantage in the Information Age coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin appeared in 2002. "Working on Nonprofit Boards: Don't Assume the Shoe Fits" appeared in the November/December 1999 issue of the Harvard Business Review, and "Information Technology and the Board of Directors" with Richard Nolan appeared in October 2005. He is editor of Information Systems Research Challenge, published by the Harvard Business School Press, 1984. He served a three-year term as Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly (1986-1988). He is a member of several corporate and non-profit boards, serving for over ten years on hospital boards. Less   View all posts

Bernard (Bud) F. Mathaisel is senior vice president and chief information officer at Achievo Corporation, a global leader in software and IT outsourcing. Previously, Bud was senior vice president and CIO for Solectron Corporation, with global responsibility for information technology and business process reengineering. Prior to Solectron, Bud served as CIO at Ford Motor Company and Walt Disney Company, respectively. Earlier in his career, Bud was the founding director of Ernst & Young's Center for Business Innovation in Boston, a group dedicated to the conception and development of leading-edge ideas and management approaches about business innovation. Bud serves on the board of Packeteer, the global market leader in application traffic management for wide area networks; e2open, a business entity that provides collaboration and supply chain software and services for the electronics and aerospace industries; and he is on the Executive Board of QD Technology, a query database company. He is also on the technical advisory boards of several technology companies including Baring Private Equity Asia. He is a member of CIO Magazine's editorial advisory board, and he has been a McKinsey reviewer for the Harvard Business Review. Less   View all posts