Biography
Keri Pearlson is a Senior Lecturer and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School. She previously served as the Executive Director of the CAMS (Cybersecurity At MIT Sloan) research consortium.
Pearlson has held positions in academia and industry including Babson College, The University of Texas at Austin, Gartner’s Research Board, CSC, and AT&T. She founded KP Partners, a CIO advisory services firm and the IT Leaders’ Forum, a community of next generation IT executives. She was the founding director of the Analytics Leadership Consortium at the International Institute of Analytics. Pearlson began her career at Hughes Aircraft Company as a systems analyst.
Pearlson's research spans MIS, business strategy, and organizational design. Her current research studies cybersecurity resilience, specifically looking at how boards of directors govern cybersecurity and digital risk, how AI introduces security and business risk, how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity, and how supply chains and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can be made more cyber-resilient. She is the coauthor of the textbook Managing and Using Information: A Strategic Approach and of Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, MISQE, The Academy of Management Executive, Information Resources Management Journal, Harvard Business Publishing, The Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets.
Pearlson holds a Doctorate in business administration (DBA) in MIS from Harvard Business School, and an MS in industrial engineering and BS in mathematics from Stanford University. She is the founding president of the Austin Society for Information Management (SIM) and was named “2014 National SIM Leader of the Year.”