Mark Keil

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.

His research examines managerial decision-making, specifically in the context of IT projects and includes work on project escalation, project status reporting, project risk, project control, project manager skills, and technology acceptance.

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 regularly contacted as an expert by the media; interviews have appeared in CBS News, BusinessWeek (now part of Bloomberg), Computerworld, Baseline, Network World, ScienceDaily, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Carrier Management.

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

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). In 2016, he was named a Distinguished University Professor.

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.

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.