2021 STR Outstanding Dissertation Award Finalists
Thirty dissertations were submitted to be considered for the 2021 STR Division Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award. The overall quality of the dissertations was very high, making the selection of this year's finalists by the STR Research Committee very competitive. Please join me in congratulating the five finalists for the 2021 STR Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Stephen Downing (National Chiao Tung University PhD), Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri
Dissertation Title: "Competitive Myopia: Redressing Blind Spots in Interindustry Competition," Dissertation Chair: Jin-Su Kang
Harshvardhan J. Ketkar (University of Michigan PhD), Assistant Professor at Bocconi
Dissertation Title: "Essays on Organizing Human Capital, Automation and Innovation," Dissertation Co-Chairs: Seth Carnahan and Felipe Csaszar
Hyunjin Kim (Harvard Business School PhD), Assistant Professor at INSEAD
Dissertation Title: "Field Experiments on the Barriers Firms Face in Realizing Gains From Data," Dissertation Chair: Dennis Yao
Arianna Marchetti (INSEAD PhD), Assistant Professor at London Business School
Dissertation Title: "Organizational Culture and Firm Performance," Dissertation Co-Chairs: Phanish Puranam and Ithai Stern
Almantas Palubinskas (Syracuse University PhD), Postdoctoral Researcher at Emlyon Business School
Dissertation Title: "Entrepreneurial Firms and Nonmarket Strategy: Lessons from the Drone Industry," Dissertation Chair: Maria Minniti
Each finalist will present a summary of his or her dissertation at the August annual conference on Tuesday, August 3rd from 8:30-10:00am ET (and the 2021 winner will be announced during the STR Business meeting - which follows this event).
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Heather Berry
STR Division Chair Elect
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