Haim Mendelson is the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He teaches electronic business and commerce and leads the School's efforts in incorporating their implications into its curriculum and research. Professor Mendelson has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society in recognition of outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. He has published more than a hundred research papers and more than thirty company case studies. His work was published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, finance, economics, management science, and statistics. He served as codirector of the School's Center for Electronic Business and Commerce; director of the Stanford Business School's entrepreneurship program; codirector of the Stanford Global Supply Management Forum; the Operations, Information and Technology Area Coordinator; director of the executive programs on Electronic Commerce and Information Strategy for Competitive Advantage; codirector of the executive programs on Strategic Uses of Information Technology and Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Information Technology Industry; director of the Building innovative Leaders executive program; member of the Editorial Board of the Stanford University Press; and Chair of the University's faculty committee overseeing distributed computing and administrative information systems. Previously at the University of Rochester, he received a University Mentor award in recognition of outstanding service to the University, managed a large-scale research center studying the management of information systems, and was the Computer and Information Systems Area Coordinator. He is or has been Associate Editor or member of the Editorial Board of Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Information Systems Research. Professor Mendelson has been a consultant to leading high-technology companies, stock exchanges, financial services companies, management consulting companies, and industrial companies.