Cynthia M. Beath

Cynthia M. Beath is a Professor Emerita of Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business at UT Austin. She received her MBA and PhD degrees from UCLA. Before embarking on her academic career, Cynthia worked in private industry in several information systems development and consulting positions. Currently she is conducting research on how organizations design themselves for the digital era, in conjunction with colleagues at the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT. Her research has been published in the leading information systems research journals, and she has served as senior editor for the top academic journals in her field. An active advocate for her professional community, she initiated the field’s first junior faculty consortium, served as chair of a division of the Academy of Management, and on the Council of the AIS. She helped found MISQ Executive and the Austin Area Chapter of SIM.