2004-10-20

Mark Jeffery, Professor
Center for Research on Technology and Innovation at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management,

"Risk Management and the Value of Flexibility for IT".

Mark Jeffery is the Associate Professor of Technology, Technology Management Group, Kellogg School of Management and Director of the Kellogg Executive Program, Driving Strategic Results through IT Portfolio Management. Jeffery has extensive experience in design and test of ultra-high speed digital circuits, Internet system design, and software development. His research is in quantifying the business value of information technology initiatives, technology portfolio management, and real options applied to technology projects. He has more than 30 publications in scientific and technology journals, including a chapter on ROI analysis for e-Business Projects in the Wiley Encyclopedia of the Internet. Jeffery has also developed 14 original case studies that are used in the Kellogg MBA course and executive program he directs on Technology Portfolio and Program Management.

He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Theoretical Physics from Drexel University as well as an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Following his Ph.D. in 1991, Dr. Jeffery spent two years as a National Science Foundation Fellow at the RIKEN Laboratory in Japan, and then six years on the staff in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley. While in Japan and at Berkeley, Dr. Jeffery worked on several multi-institution research collaborations with corporations such as Hitachi, IBM, and TRW. He joined the Technology Management group at Kellogg full time in 2001.