Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa is the James Bayless/Rauscher Pierce Refsnes Chair in Business Administration at the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, she is the director of the Center for Business, Technology, and Law at McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include virtual teams, virtual organizations, and virtual communities, where she examines the role of social relationships and information systems in improving collaboration effectiveness. Professor Jarvenpaa is the co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Association for Information Systems and as the senior editor of Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. She is a frequent contributor in academic and industry forums on business strategy and information technology. In 1997, she was a distinguished visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne. Her other visiting scholar appointments include the Harvard Business School; MIT’s Sloan School of Management; Queens University, Canada; Jyvaskyla University, Finland; Hong Kong Science and Technology, China; City University of Hong Kong, China; and Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. Jarvenpaa received her B.S. from Bowling Green State University and her M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.