Gerardine ('Gerry') DeSanctis (1954-2005) was the Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University. Previously she taught at the University of Minnesota. Her research focused on group decision support systems, learning in distributed teams and online communities. She received a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University.
She has held Visiting Professor appointments on the Faculteit der Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische Universiteit Delft (The Netherlands), Erasmus University (The Netherlands), and INSEAD (in France and Singapore). She has been affiliated with the following editorial boards: Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior. She regularly taught in Duke's Global Executive MBA Program.