Prof. John Gallaugher is an award-winning educator, author, and an advisor to entrepreneurs. He has a unique combination of specialities that include strategic management, software development, and physical computing. Prof. Gallaugher has taught hundreds of students to learn to build apps. His students have secured work as iOS developers at leading firms, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Zynga. Many of his students have released apps to Apple’s App Store, and have launched their own businesses using skills learned in his programming and managerial courses.
Named “Guru to Grads” by Entrepreneur magazine, Prof. Gallaugher has worked with early-stage entrepreneurs that have gained admittance to elite startup accelerators (Y-combinator, TechStars, MassChallenge, Summer@Highland), launched multiple products, and raised well over $100 million in capital. Several of his former students have built thriving businesses that have endured independently or been acquired by industry leaders, and at least three of these have been valued as “unicorns” (over $1 billion).
Prof. Gallaugher also created the TechTrek field study programs at Boston College – leading his students several weeks a year to meet with executives, founders, investors, and technologists in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York, Dublin, and Ghana. His courses have been on-site with many of the world’s leading tech firms as they moved from startup to gargantuan size, and his courses have been present at multiple Apple product introductions, including the launch of the original iPhone.
Prof. Gallaugher is the author of the multi-award-winning textbook “Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology,” as well as “Learn to Code in Swift While Building iOS Apps.” His research has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly, and other leading journals. Professor Gallaugher has been a featured speaker at Apple Inc’s AcademiX educator conference, he was the international keynote speaker at AIBUMA (the African International Business and Management Conference) in Nairobi, Kenya; and he has consulted for and taught executive seminars for several organizations, including Accenture, Alcoa, Duke Corporate Education, ING, Partners Healthcare, Staples, State Street, the University of Ulster, and the U.S. Information Agency. His comments on business and technology have appeared in the New York Times, National Public Radio, BusinessWeek, The Boston Globe, Wired, the Associated Press, Chronicle (WCVB-TV), The Daily Yomiuri (Japan), and The Nation (Thailand), among others.
A tenured member of the Information Systems Department at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Professor Gallaugher earned his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Syracuse University School of Management, and he holds an MBA and an undergraduate degree in computer science, both from Boston College. He has also participated in NYU’s Summer ITP Camp Program for technologists, artists, and activists focused on physical computing. You can find teaching materials at his personal website: gallaugher.com, as well as his YouTube Channel (YouTube.com/profgallaugher). He is also active on Twitter: @gallaugher.