Faculty Profile

Ritu Agarwal
Professor and Robert H. Smith Dean's Chair of Information Systems
Decision and Information Technologies Department Phone: (301) 405-3121
Fax: (301) 405-8655
ragarwal@rhsmith.umd.edu
Personal Webpage

Ritu Agarwal is Professor and the Dean’s Chair of Information Systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the founder and Director of the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the Smith School. Dr. Agarwal has published over 75 papers on information technology management topics in journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions, and Decision Support Systems, and has made presentations at a variety of national and international conferences. Her current research is focused on the use of IT in healthcare settings, technology-enabled transformations in the auto-retailing and printing sectors; and appropriate strategies for the management of IT human capital.

Professor Agarwal has worked extensively with Fortune 500 companies including 3M, Freddie Mac, Dow Chemicals, Rohm and Haas, AstraZeneca, NCR, and others on a variety of research and consulting engagements and made several presentations to groups of senior IT and business executives. Her research has been sponsored by the Society for Information Management, US Department of Labor, and DARPA. She is also active in executive education, and participates in the Smith School’s Executive MBA program.

Professor Agarwal is currently serving as a Senior Editor for Information Systems Research, and an Associate Editor for Management Science. Other editorial appointments include MIS Quarterly Executive, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Information Technology and Management. She recently completed a three year term as Senior Editor at MIS Quarterly. She is a member of ACM, AIS, INFORMS, and the Academy of Management. Dr. Agarwal is a member of the INFORMS board as Vice President for Subdivisions and served as a Vice President in the Association for Information Systems from 2003-2006.