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DALLAS (SMU) - To prepare students for the rapidly evolving e-commerce and telecommunication industries, SMU's Cox School of Business has developed a wide variety of courses addressing those respective fields. More than 30 different courses, not all of which are available during every semester, have been designed to address various aspects of e-commerce and telecommunications ranging from marketing to entrepreneurship, from investment banking to ethics.

A partial list of titles includes: Advanced Mobile & Wireless Communications Systems; Advances in Telecommunications & Networking; Business to Business Electronic Commerce; Creating an Electronic Commerce Venture; Data Mining on the Internet; Economics of the Telecommunications & Electronic Commerce; Emerging Information Technologies; Interactive Marketing & Electronic Commerce; International Aspects of Telecommunications; Internet Entrepreneurship Strategy; Introduction to Database Systems; Introductory Business & E-Law; Regulatory Issues in Telecommunications; Security, Privacy, Legal & Ethical Issues in Telecommunications; Supply Chain Management for E-Business; and Wireless Communications & Mobility.

Cox School of Business also renamed the Information Technologies and Operations Management (ITOM) department, which was called Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM), and hired four faculty members, including former Vanderbilt University Professor Bezalel "Ben" Gavish as department chair.

Gavish is a nationally recognized expert in telecommunications and is editor-in-chief of Telecommunication Systems and Electronic Commerce Research Journal. He received his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. For nearly 30 years, he has worked on numerous consulting engagements with industry leaders, including IBM, GTE, Xerox, the National Institute for Scientific Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell South, and most recently Motorola Satellite Business Systems.

Also new to Cox faculty in telecommunications is Amit Basu, former associate professor of management in telecommunications and e-commerce at Vanderbilt University. Basu specializes in areas of e-commerce and virtual organizations, database management, intelligent systems in organization, and management information systems. He is the area editor for knowledge and data management for INFORMS Journal of Computing. Basu earned his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, before earning an MBA from Southern Illinois University and his master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Management. His consulting engagements have focused on several areas, including information technology in the health care industry and critical processes in e-commerce start-ups.

Joakim Kalvenes teaches in the areas of e-commerce and telecommunications management. His research focuses in several areas, including network design, group decision support systems, and the use of information technology in the management of buyer/seller relationships. He earned his Ph.D. in management information sciences and an MBA in finance and operations management from Vanderbilt University. Prior to that, he earned a master's degree from The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in Bergen, Norway, and a master of science degree in Industrial Mathematics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Neil Keon received his Ph.D. in systems engineering in May 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering where he also received his master's degree in systems engineering. Prior to that, he received his master's degree in systems science from the University of Ottawa and his bachelor's degree in commerce and management from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has conducted research in pricing and resource allocation for telecommunications networks offering multiple service classes and quality of service guarantees. His research has also focused on user behavior and network incentives to shift demand from peak periods to improve average utilization of network resources. Keon is a National Science Foundation grant recipient.