Dr. Eric Overby joined the Scheller College of Business faculty in the fall of 2007 after completing his PhD at Emory University.

Eric is an award-winning scholar in each of the three aspects of academia: research, teaching, and service. Eric's research has appeared in academic journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, and the European Journal of Information Systems. His research has received awards from scholarly organizations such as INFORMS and the Academy of Management, including the Best Published Paper of 2008 award and the Best Program Paper of 2010 award from the Organizational Communication and Information Systems division of the Academy of Management. He was one of three finalists for the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGMIS Best Dissertation Award in 2007. Eric was one of two recipients of Georgia Tech's university-wide Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence award in 2011 and was the first Scheller College of Business faculty member to receive this award since 1993. He also received the James F. Frazier, Jr. Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011. Eric received the 2012 Best Reviewer Award for his service to Information Systems Research, and he is an associate editor at Management Science.

Eric's research focuses on the "virtualization" of business and society: he studies how processes that have traditionally been conducted physically are increasingly being conducted electronically. Eric focuses primarily on the economic implications of this shift.

He is also an active contributor to the automotive industry, having presented his research to automotive executive audiences at the Conference of Automotive Remarketers and the National Auto Auction Association annual meeting. His research and teaching have been supported by grants from the NET Institute, the Rich Foundation, and the National Auto Auction Association.