Dr. Eric Overby joined the Georgia Tech College of Management faculty in fall of 2007 after completing his PhD at Emory University.

Eric's research has appeared in academic journals such as Management Science, Organization Science, 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 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'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 2006 Conference of Automotive Remarketers and the 2006 and 2007 National Auto Auction Association annual meeting.