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Columns::April 15, 2002

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Rick Watson, MIS professor, named Internet Strategy chairholder

By David Dodson
ddodson@terry.uga.edu

Management Information Systems professor Rick Watson has been named to the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for

Rick Watson

Internet Strategy. Watson is the first to hold the newly endowed chair. He also serves as director of the college’s Center for Information Systems Leadership.
The $2.5 million endowment was established by Dorothy Chapman Fuqua in honor of her son, J. Rex Fuqua, a 1972 graduate of Terry College and charter member of the college’s Board of Overseers.
The endowment, which is the third in MIS, designates that the chair be held by a national scholar in the information systems field whose research focuses on strategic uses of the Internet in business.
Watson has been actively involved in e-commerce research since 1994 and built the college’s first Web page. He has given invited presentations on electronic commerce in more than a dozen countries and written books on electronic commerce and data management, along with more than 70 refereed articles. Watson also is a senior editor for MIS Quarterly, the leading journal in his field of research, as well as vice president for communications of the Association for Information Systems.
He is co-chair of the 2004 International Conference on Information Systems, the pre-eminent MIS conference, and is serving as joint general chair for the International Conference in Electronic Business to be held in Beijing in May.
He also chairs the Academic Advisory Board of EzGov, the leading supplier of e-government software. John Wiley and Sons recently appointed him as its consulting editor for electronic commerce.
“Rick is a world-class scholar in the truest sense,” says Dean George Benson. “He absolutely bubbles over with ideas that he provides to me, to others in the college and to his research colleagues internationally. We’re thrilled that he is a member of the Terry faculty.”
Rex Fuqua is president and CEO of Atlanta-based Fuqua Capital Corp., a private investment firm, and managing director of Fuqua Ventures. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Duke University and the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business.
Fuqua received a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, where he also was a doctoral candidate.

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