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Eric Kyper, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Management


Experience/Background

  • Assistant Professor of Management (MIS), University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  • Graduate Assistant, University of Rhode Island
  • Graduate Assistant, University of Minnesota Duluth
  • Consultant, Points North Consulting, Inc. (1999-2001)
  • Data Specialist, City of Duluth, Minnesota (1998-1999)

Degrees and Certifications

  • Ph.D., Business Administration- MIS
    The University of Rhode Island
  • M.B.A.
    The University of Minnesota
  • B.A., Economics
    The University of Minnesota

Teaching Areas

  • Information Systems
  • Statistics

Professional Associations and Affiliations

  • Reviewer for 2009 AMCIS Conference, San Francisco, Calif.
  • Associate Editor, Informing Science Journal (2006 - 2008)
  • Ad hoc reviewer, Informing Science Journal
  • Reviewer for 2007 Southwest Decision Sciences Conference, Houston, Texas
  • Reviewer for 2005 National Decision Sciences Conference, San Francisco
  • Reviewer for 2003 Northeast Decision Sciences Conference, Providence, R.I.
  • Session chair/discussant (A Mobile World) for 2003 Northeast Decision Sciences Conference, Providence, R.I.

Recent Refereed Publications

  • Pardue, H., Landry J., Kyper, E., & Lievano, R. (2009). Look-ahead and look-behind shortcuts in large item category hierarchies: The impact on search performance. Interacting with Computers 21.
  • Douglas, M. & Kyper, E. (2009). E-tailing office furniture: Too many claims at OFC. Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies 15 (1).
  • Douglas, M. & Kyper, E. (2009). Case solution to: E-tailing office furniture: Too many claims at OFC. Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Special Instructors' Edition 15 (2).
  • Lievano, R.J. & Kyper, E. (2006). Data mining reliability: Model-building with MARS and neural networks. Advances in Business and Management Forecasting.
  • Jarrett, J., & Kyper, E. (2006). The capital market efficiency and the predictability of daily returns. Applied Economics.
  • Chinn, S., Lloyd, S., & Kyper, E., (2005) Examining contemporary usage of CASE tools in colleges and universities. Journal of Information Systems Education, 16(4).
  • Jarrett, J., & Kyper, E. (2005). Evidence on the seasonality of stock market prices of firms traded on organized markets. Applied Economic Letters, 12(9).
  • Jarrett, J. & Kyper, E. (2005). Daily variation, capital market efficiency and predicting stock market returns. Management Research News, 28(7).

Conference Proceedings

  • Kyper, E., & Blake, R. An investigation of the intention to share files over P2P networks. Proceedings of the 2009 Americas Conference on Information Systems. San Francisco, CA.
  • Kyper, E., Douglas, M., & Lievano, R. Operational business intelligence: Applying decision trees to call centre operations. Proceedings of the 2009 Americas Conference on Information Systems. San Francisco, CA.
  • Kyper, E., Lievano, R., & Jarrett, J. On the problem of selecting categories and model subsets in decision trees. Proceedings of the 2008 National Decision Sciences Institute Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • Kyper, E., Hamel, L., & Lloyd, S. Classification for scaling methods in data mining, Proceedings of the 2005 National Decision Sciences Institute Conference. San Francisco, CA.
  • Lievano, R., Kyper, E., & Lloyd, S. Real cost recovery and the IT productivity paradox, Proceedings of the 2005 National Decision Sciences Institute Conference. San Francisco, CA.
  • Kyper, E., Lievano, R., Mangiamelli, P., & Shin, S. Software piracy: A time-series analysis, Proceedings of the 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems. New York, NY.
  • Kyper, E., & Lloyd, S. J. Using data mining to predict financial risk factors, Proceedings of the 2004 International Scientific School Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Safety and Risk in Complex Systems.St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Kyper, E., Lloyd, S., & Chinn, S. Data mining: A retrospective analysis, Proceedings of the 2004 Information Resources Management Association International Conference. New Orleans, LA: IRMA.
  • Jarrett, J., & Kyper, E. Seasonality of stock market prices of firms traded on organized markets, Proceedings of the 2004 Northeast Decision Science Institute Conference. Atlantic City, NJ.
  • Hirsekorn, S., Kyper, E., Lloyd, S. J., & Ebrahimpour, M. Effects of delayering on supply chains: A pilot study, Proceedings of the 2003 National Decision Sciences Institute Conference. Washington, D.C.
  • Pardue, H., Landry, J. P., & Kyper, E. Shortcut usage in hierarchical website navigation: the impact on search performance, Proceedings of the 2003 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference. Providence, RI.
  • Lievano, R. J., & Kyper, E. OLS regression vs. neural networks vs. MARS: A comparison, Proceedings of the 2002 Midwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference. Milwaukee, WI.

You can contact Dr. Kyper at 434/544-8167 or kyper@lynchburg.edu.