Pitt Business: Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration

Enrique Mu

Director, MIS Program
Lecturer in Business Administration

Office: 244 Mervis
Phone: 412-648-2268
E-mail: enmu@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

PhD, Information Systems, University of Pittsburgh
MBA and MS, Management of Information Systems, University of Pittsburgh
BS, Electronics and Industrial Engineering, San Marcos University, Peru

Courses Recently Taught

BMIS 2578 Electronic Commerce
BMIS 2070 Telecommunications Management
BUSMIS1610 Telecommunications Management
BUSMIS 1625 Electronic Commerce
BUSMIS 1060 Information Systems

Interest Group

Management Information Systems (MIS)

Profile

Enrique Mu, lecturer in business administration, is program director for the dual-degree MBA/MIS program. Prior to joining Katz, he worked for Black Box Corporation, a Data Communications Pittsburgh-based company, as business development manager for Latin America and as a customer support vice president for Comlasa Ltd., a computing solution firm, in the same region. He has been a project manager for several multimillion-dollar online banking automation projects in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Chile. He has also taught in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. His areas of interest are in the use of information technology (IT) for business decisions, strategic use of IT in the organization, telecommunications, e-commerce, and international business.

Recent Publications

"A Unified Framework for Site Selection and Business Forecasting Using ANP," Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, June 2006, Beijing: P.R. China.

“Using ANP in the Non-Profit Sector: Predicting Attendance and Selecting a Conference Site." Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on AHP Conference, Honolulu, 2005.

"The Influence of the Meaning of Pictures and Words on Web Page Recognition Performance," with D. Galletta, presented at HICCS-36, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Big Island, Hawaii, January 2003.

"Decision-Making using the Analytic Hierarchy Process," (in Spanish), Chapter in Management: Vision Global para el Mundo de los Negocios, DeMarketing, Bogota, Colombia, 2003.

"I want to have a million friends or the importance of social capital," (in Spanish), Decisions in Human Resources, November 2000, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

"Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again on the Information Systems Plains," (in Spanish), Estrategia, Santiago de Chile, Chile, Sept. 8, 1999.

Awards and Honors

University of Pittsburgh—Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, 1998—Letter of commendation for "being identified by students as an outstanding individual who has made a significant and positive impact on their lives.

Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, 1996—Recognition Award Letter from Dr. H.J. Zoffer, Dean Emeritus

External Services

Member of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Group of the City of Pittsburgh. Co-authored a report on the status of ICT in the city and strategic alternatives.

Relevant Interviews and Quotes

"Report says citywide Wi-Fi unlikely," Pittsburgh Post Gazette, May 4, 2005. Quoted on ICT report.

"Promueven metodo Expert Choice para facilitar toma de decisiones empresariales," La Republica, Bogota – Colombia, March 15, 2005.

Consulting Activities

Mu has done consulting work in the areas of telecommunications management, IT marketing, and electronic commerce to organizations in the United States and Latin America.

Personal Interests

In his spare time, Mu is an avid reader of science fiction and considers himself an expert in UFO "research," although he hasn't yet had the opportunity to get any academic position in this discipline.