Stacie Petter, PhD, is the Acting Dean, the Peter C. Brockway Chair of Strategic Management, and a Professor of Management Information Systems at the Wake Forest University School of Business. Since joining Wake Forest in 2022, Dr. Petter has served in multiple leadership roles, including, most recently, as the inaugural Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. Working across the university to support faculty and strengthen institutional policies provided her with a broad institutional perspective that she brings to her leadership of the School of Business.
Her approach to leadership is rooted in a career-long commitment to student success and faculty development. Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest, she was the Ben H. Williams Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Baylor University in the Hankamer School of Business, where she also directed the Information Systems PhD program. Earlier, she served as an Associate Professor in Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis at the College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Across these experiences, her work has been recognized for balancing high-level scholarly activity with an enduring focus on supporting the growth of her students, colleagues, and the academic community.
Her research program is grounded in the responsible use of technology, specifically examining how to mitigate social harms and maximize the societal value of information systems. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation and the IBM Center for the Business of Government, with publications in leading outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Recognized for her contributions to the field, she is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and a recipient of the AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award. Her academic efforts are informed by her early career in the IT industry, where she worked as a software developer and consultant. She earned her PhD and MBA from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Berry College.