Dr. Eric Overby joined the Scheller College of Business faculty in the fall of 2007 after completing his PhD at Emory University.
Eric’s research is broadly motivated by a central observation: activities and processes that have traditionally been conducted in physical environments are shifting to electronic environments. Eric's research: (a) seeks to explain why some activities and processes are more suitable for migration to electronic environments than others, and (b) explores the implications of physical-to-electronic shifts in contexts such as the wholesale used car market, consumer lending, medical records, and the news media. Eric's research has appeared in academic journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Journal of Management Information Systems, and the European Journal of Information Systems. He was the inaugural recipient of the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society in 2015, he received the Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence from the Scheller College in 2022, and he has received multiple best paper awards.
Eric currently serves as the Faculty Director for the Steven A. Denning Technology & Management Program at Georgia Tech. He is also the Faculty Director for the Chief AI and Data Officer Certificate Program at Scheller. He has served on the Institute Provost’s Advisory Committee; the Scheller review, promotion, and tenure committee, including as chair; and Scheller's undergraduate and graduate curriculum committees. He served as an Associate Editor at Management Science from 2013-2025, and he has received multiple awards for his editorial and reviewing service. He has also received multiple teaching awards.
Migration of physical processes and activities to electronic environments, with applications in the wholesale used car market, consumer lending, medical records, and the news media
Electronic commerce and electronic markets
Geographic trade, market efficiency, and spatial arbitrage
