Dr Yogesh Malhotra

Dr Yogesh Malhotra Ph.D. magna cum laude, MBA summa cum laude, BE cum laude, CISA, CISSP, C.Eng. (I) Who's Who in America®, Who's Who in the World® Who's Who in Finance and Industry®, Who's Who in Science and Engineering®
"The wise see knowledge and action as one." - Systems theorist Stafford Beer quoting Bhagvad Gita
The 2008 Report of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International) Impact of Research Task Force recognizes Dr. Yogesh Malhotra's information systems risk management research focus on 'why knowledge management systems fail' as an "exemplar" of how basic research can have substantive impact on real world managerial practices. His work is noted as an exemplar among others such as Nobel Laureate works of Black and Scholes, Modigliani and Miller, and William Sharpe.
Executive Profile
Yogesh Malhotra is an Associate Professor of Accounting & Information Systems in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. His current research focus is on Knowledge Management, IT Risk Management, Controls, and Compliance. His ground-breaking research is referenced by governments, national defense organizations, corporations, and institutions across most countries of the world. The 2008 Report of the AACSB International Impact of Research Task Force recognizes the global impact of his work on managerial practices among others such as Nobel Laureate works of Black and Scholes, Modigliani and Miller, and William Sharpe. Scientific impact studies published by the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the University of Minnesota MIS Research Center, publisher of the MIS Quarterly, rank the impact of his research among others such as Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon and economists such as Joseph Schumpeter. Global survey of MIS professionals conducted by the Drexel University ranks him in the world’s three most influential scholar-practitioners of Knowledge Management, the top two being Professors Ikujiro Nonaka and Thomas Davenport. He is profiled among the world’s twelve leading management thinkers on Information Technology and e-Business Strategy including professors from Dartmouth, Harvard, and, Kellogg by Business Standard (India), one of India’s most influential business newspaper. He is profiled among key global experts who have pioneered global practices on Knowledge Management by Emerald Publishing (UK), one of the world’s largest publishers of management research. His biography is profiled among the world's greatest achievers and leaders in Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science & Engineering, and, Who's Who in Finance and Industry by honor of invitation.
Before Syracuse, he taught and lectured at Kellogg, Carnegie Mellon, and, INSEAD as invited faculty; advised some of the world's largest governments and $100 Billion dollar global corporations across US, Europe, and Asia on IT and knowledge management; and, founded award-winning Web-based educational social enterprise technology ventures whose educational patrons and corporate clients included Cisco Systems, Goldman Sachs, Google, Harvard, HP, IBM, Intel, McKinsey, Microsoft, MIT, NASA, Princeton, Silicon Valley hi-tech companies, Stanford, US Air Force, US Army, US Navy, Wharton, World Bank. Prior to that, as a software engineer with some of the largest global financial institutions and consulting firms across the U.S., Hong Kong, and India, he was responsible for advising corporate executives on global IT strategy, and, design, development and implementations of currency arbitrage systems and global financial systems for worldwide financial companies. His direct consulting clients have included Bank of America, Banque Indo-Suez, British Telecom, Government of Mexico, Government of Netherlands, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, National Science Foundation, Philips Electronics N.V., Tata Group, U.S. Federal Government, Unisys Corporation, United Nations, and, Vision Korea Campaign.
As an invited keynote speaker he has shared the platform with corporate chairmen and CEOs of global corporations, world policy executives, and world’s top management gurus while addressing diverse audiences including Silicon Valley based venture capitalists and CEOs of technology corporations; corporate quality executives of US Baldrige award winning corporations at the Conference Board's U.S. Quality Council; largest business media network of South Korea with a million subscribers; cabinet ministers, chief information officers, and 600 IT executives in the national government of Mexico, and, global policy leaders at the United Nations world headquarters. The global technology and management press including Business Week, CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., Information Week, InfoWorld, KM World, New York Times, and, Wall Street Journal has interviewed him and written about his contributions to the advancement of global technology management practices. He has served as council partner of the U.S. Federal Government's Inter-Agency Benchmarking & Best Practices Council, advisory board member for the Conference Board, advisor for the Institute for Supply Management, founding member and contributing editor for the Ziff Davis’ Global Information Infrastructure Standard for Internet Commerce, member of board of directors of Knowledge Management Consortium International and founder of the WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management.
He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (major advisor: Professor William R. King) and doctoral minors in Management Control Systems (minor advisor: Professor Jacob G. Birnberg) and Quantitative Methods (advisor: Professor Tse-chi Hsu) from the University of Pittsburgh on a doctoral research fellowship and full tuition scholarship. His Ph.D. thesis (chair: Professor Dennis F. Galletta) longitudinal field study of IT adoption and quantitative models of controls and compliance focused on one of the first organizational implementations of Web-based networked systems and enterprise knowledge management systems at a prominent healthcare organization in the USA. While completing his Ph.D., he also programmed and launched world’s first globally popular social communication and collaboration virtual communities, knowledge portals, and search engine focused on Business Technology Management research that received several awards including Computerworld Annual Forecast Internet Best Site award and Industry.Net Award for Top Nominee Research Site by outranking the world’s most popular search engine of that time, Alta Vista, and were recognized among the world's best Web sites by Business Week, Computerworld, Fast Company, Fortune, Information Week, InfoWorld, KM World, and Wall Street Journal.
He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, (ISC)2, and, a Chartered Engineer and Life Member of the Institution of Engineers (I). He is a citizen of the United States of America and a resident of New York.