Atanu Lahiri

PhD - Business Administration
University of Rochester - 2010

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Best Conference Paper at HICSS - [2021]

INFORMS ISS Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award - [2020]

Best Conference Paper with a Doctoral Student at CHITA - [2017]

Best Conference Paper Runner-up at WISE (2015) - [2015]

Best Conference Paper with a Doctoral Student at INFORMS CIST - [2015]

Director, Graduate Certificate Program in Cybersecurity Systems
University of Texas, Dallas [2019–Present]

Study: How Piracy Can Unravel Company Profits in Product Bundling

Determining whether the practice of product bundling — such as combining cable TV channels into packages or computer software programs into software suites — is profitable in the presence of piracy is important to businesses as they formulate pricing strategies.

Piracy — the unauthorized use or reproduction of another’s work — has become more pervasive because consumers often don’t want to pay for an entire bundle of items when they are only interested in a small selection. In a new study published online Aug. 26 and in the Volume 39, Issue 3 print edition of the Journal of Management Information Systems, a researcher from The University of Texas at Dallas and his colleagues examined this issue and concluded that bundling actually abets piracy and that the loss of profits from piracy is not offset by the additional income from selling bundled information goods.

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Information Systems Researcher Wins Early Career Award

Dr. Atanu Lahiri, an associate professor of information systems, was one of six honorees who recently received an award marking them as “on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.”

Lahiri won the Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award from the Information Systems Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The award was announced on Nov. 8 at the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology 2020.

Given annually since 2015, the award honors the late Dr. Sandra A. Slaughter, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology known for seeking recognition for rising young leaders in the information systems discipline.

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Researchers Examine if Online Physician Reviews Indicate Clinical Outcomes

Online consumer reviews play an important role in almost every consumer industry — from dining and shopping to travel and technology. But what do online reviews of physicians tell consumers?

In a new study, researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas investigated whether patient-generated online reviews of physicians accurately reflect the quality of care.

For chronic diseases, the study found that online reviews do not reliably indicate the quality of care provided by a physician, as measured in terms of readmission risk and other similar broadly accepted clinical outcomes. Both the star ratings and textual reviews were found to be equally uninformative of the actual quality of care, Lahiri said.

“The result was indeed a surprise,” he said. “Since prior research on online reviews is mostly based on search goods and experience goods, it typically finds that online reviews are useful to prospective consumers. A key takeaway is that the efficacy of online reviews of search and experience goods does not extend to credence goods, such as chronic-disease care.

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Jindal School Researcher Wins Early Career Award

Dr. Atanu Lahiri, associate professor of information systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, recently received the Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award from the Information Systems Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.

Given annually since 2015, the award honors Slaughter, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology known for seeking recognition for rising young leaders in information systems (IS). The award’s six recipients were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the IS discipline and their growing body of published research that is “likely to influence theory, research and practice.”