Gezinus J. Hidding, joined the faculty of the School of Business Administration of Loyola University Chicago in 1996, after a 10-year career with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). He was promoted (early) to Associate Professor of Information Systems in 2001, and received the School of Business Administration's Faculty Member of the Year award in 2002 and its Teaching Innovation Award in 2001. He has authored 20 refereed publications and presented to executive audiences in the US, Europe and Japan.
Dr. Hidding is funding the Aart Bosman prize, awarded by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, for the best Ph.D. dissertation in the Netherlands and Belgium in the field of Information Systems. He is Founder and CEO of youRentit.com and chairman of the Board of Directors of Verhuur.nl, an Easy2Find company, in the Netherlands (2001 - present) and has served on the Board of Advisers of various Chicago-based technology startup companies. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and in Who's Who in Executives and Professionals. He has consulted with several (international) organizations regarding Strategic Use of IT, Systems Development Methods, and Knowledge Management.
Dr. Hidding received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Econometrics from the University of Groningen.
Dr. Hidding's teaching and research interests include Business Strategy and Information Technology, Project Management and whether IS developers actually use system development methods.