Mark Keil (professor)

In 2019, he was appointed as a Regent’s Professor of the University System of Georgia. This is the highest academic honor in the University System of Georgia. It is bestowed on professors whose scholarly achievements are recognized nationally and internationally as innovative and renowned and who have a record of sustained scholarly productivity as well as substantial contributions in service to their discipline and Georgia State University.

In 2018, he received the Project Management Institute’s Research Achievement Award. In the same year, he received the AIS Fellow Award from the Association for Information Systems. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Information Systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service.

He was named the John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems. In 2016, he was named a Distinguished University Professor. This appointment recognizes professors who have records of exemplary scholarship in their respective fields of study, and whose research and teaching trajectories demonstrate a commitment to sustained high levels of academic achievement.

In 2005, Mark Keil received Georgia State University’s Alumni Distinguished Professor Award, 2005 which recognizes a high-achieving senior Georgia State faculty member who embodies the balance between teacher and scholar.

Keil’s work (with co-author Anandhi Bharadwaj of Emory University) on the market impact of IT failures was featured in Baseline in 2001 titled "Bada Boom". The article noted that “on average, the stocks of publicly traded companies decline 1.75% as negative news emerges” involving an IT failure. This “decline translated into the disappearance, on average, of $650 million in stock-market value over a two-day period.”

He is also a two-time recipient of the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research (2000 and 2009). He has also received many best paper awards from the AOM's CTO Division as well as from journals such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Decision Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

In 1991, after completing his doctoral degree, he began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University. He was tenured and promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2002.

In 1982, he obtained his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) from Princeton University. He obtained his Master’s degree (S.M.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management in1986. He obtained a doctoral degree (D.B.A.) in Management Information Systems from the Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1991.

Mark Keil (born 1960) is a Regents’ Professor and the John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He also holds appointments in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Health Administration at Georgia State University.