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Mark Keil is the Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems (CIS) in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.

Keil joined the CIS faculty in 1991. He has taught in the MBA and EMBA programs at Georgia State as well as in the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degree programs in CIS. In 1994, he received a College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Teaching.

His research focuses on software project management, with particular emphasis on understanding and preventing software project escalation—cases in which projects seems to take on lives of their own, continuing to absorb valuable resources without ever reaching their objectives. His research is also aimed at providing better tools for assessing software project risk and removing barriers to software use. In 2000, he received the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research. In 2005, he received the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award for outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching, and service.

Keil’s research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Sloan Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Support Systems, and many other journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and Decision Sciences. He has also served as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, and as Co-Editor of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Keil has been active in the Academy of Management and has served as Division Chair of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, his master’s degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and his doctorate in management information systems from the Harvard Business School.