Fisher Information Technology Center
Center Leadership
Jack Grantham, Executive Director
Terry Hendershott, Faculty Director
Jack Grantham, Executive Director
As executive director of the Fisher IT Center, Jack Grantham is responsible for planning and launching the re-birth of the center in service to corporate executives, as well as to U. C. Berkeley faculty, researchers and students. He is dedicated to ensuring that the Fisher Information Technology Center draws on the resources of U. C. Berkeley to create relationships between these groups so as to effectively maintain and grow products and services, programs and activities, conferences and symposia which strengthen their research capabilities, relevance, and interaction. Mr. Grantham can be reached at grantham@haas.berkeley.edu or 510-642-6145.
Prior to his appointment at U. C. Berkeley, Grantham was for 16 years the Chief Information Officer and Director of Customer and Operations Support for the Research Libraries Group ( http://www.RLG.org ), a content and services firm to higher education, museums and archives. A spin-off from Stanford University, RLG has the largest bibliographic database in the world. Previously, Grantham was founder and president of ATAC Business Services and general manager for Ikoss Corporation, implementing financial systems for the Union Bank of Switzerland’s Trust Bank in Tokyo, Japan. A former vice president of Trust Systems at Bank of America in San Francisco and vice president of SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, Grantham has an extensive background in IT, with responsibilities ranging from executive to manager, systems analyst and programmer. Named as outstanding student from his MBA graduating class, Grantham holds an Executive MBA from St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, and a BS degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco.
Terrence Hendershott, Faculty Director
Terry Hendershott is an Assistant Professor in the Operations and Information Technology group at the Haas School of Business. His recent research involves the impact of technological innovation on traditional financial markets and has extensively addressed how electronic trading systems compete with stock exchanges. Dr. Hendershott spent 2005-06 as Visiting Economist with the New York Stock Exchange. He was recently appointed a Schwabacher Fellow, the highest honor bestowed upon assistant professors by the school, for his outstanding research and exceptional scholarly growth. Dr. Hendershott holds a Ph.D. in Operations, Information, and Technology from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics from Miami University. You can learn more about Dr. Hendershott at: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/hendershott.html
John Morgan is a Professor at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at Berkeley, and is also the Founding Director of Xlab, Berkeley's laboratory for economic experiments. Using the tools of game theory, econometrics, and information economics, together with one of the largest datasets ever assembled on pricing by firms selling products over the Internet, Dr. Morgan and his colleagues have studied issues ranging from the impact of fee structures at price comparison sites on the competitiveness of E-markets to the incentives of firms to price discriminate among online and off-line customers (see http://nash-equilibrium.com). Dr. Morgan has been the recipient of many awards and fellowships. He holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, a MA in Economics from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. You can learn more about Dr. Morgan at: http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/morgan.html
