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

Russell W. Robbins

Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Office: 361 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-624-2346
E-mail: rrobbins@katz.pitt.edu
Homepage: http://www.pitt.edu/~rrobbins

Degrees

PhD in Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MS in Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MS in Accounting, Binghamton University
BS in Business Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia

Courses Recently Taught

Current Topics in MIS: Virtual Teams and Collaboration Technologies (MBA/MS-MIS)
IT Project Management (Undergraduate, MBA/MS-MIS)

Area

Decision, Operations and Information Technology

Profile

Russ Robbins' research interests include understanding and simulating ethical problem solving at the individual and group levels (for decision support, teaching, and experimenting). He is also studying how to use virtual worlds to enable learning.

Selected Publications

Robbins, Russell W. and Butler, Brian S. (Summer 2009). "Selecting a Virtual World for Learning." Journal of Information Systems Education, Special Issue: Impacts of Web 2.0 and Virtual World Technologies on IS Education. Vol 20(2): 199-210.

Robbins, Russell W. and Butler, Brian S. "Teaching and Learning Collaboratively and Virtually." (August 2009). Proc. 2009 Americas Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems. San Francisco, CA. Paper No. 655.

Fleischmann, Kenneth R., Robbins, Russell W., & Wallace, William A. (Jan 2009). "Designing Educational Cases for Intercultural Information Ethics: The Importance of Diversity, Perspectives, Values, and Pluralism." Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 50(1): 4-14.

Robbins, Russell W., Fleischmann, Kenneth R., and Wallace, William A. (Jan 2009). "Computing and Information Ethics Education Research." Handbook of Research on Technoethics. Luppicini, R. and Adell, R. (Eds.). pp. 391-408. Information Science Reference. New York.

Robbins, Russell W., and Wallace, William A. (August 2007). "Decision Support for Ethical Problem Solving: A Multi-agent Approach." Decision Support Systems 43(4): 1571-1587.

Robbins, Russell W. and Hall, Dianne J. (August 2007). "Decision Support for Individuals, Groups, and Organizations: Ethics and Values in the Context of Complex Problem Solving." Proc. 2007 Americas Conference on Information Systems. Association for Information Systems. Keystone, Colorado.

Robbins, Russell W., Wallace, William A., and Puka, Bill (April 2004). "Supporting Ethical Problem Solving: An Exploratory Investigation." Proc. 2004 ACM SIGMIS CPR, pp. 134-143. ACM Press.

Awards and Honors

$300,000 National Science Foundation Collaborative Grant with Kenneth R. Fleischmann at the University of Maryland and William A. Wallace at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Finalist in 2004 Dissertation Proposal competition at the Institute for Ethical Business Worldwide at the University of Notre Dame.

Personal Interests

Russ and his wife, Noreen, spend their free time enjoying the outdoors cycling, canoeing, and hiking.