It is my great pleasure to announce this year's finalists in the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. We received sixty-five proposals from doctoral students at 51 universities this year. Eight finalists were chosen based on evaluations by three reviewers. Thus, the acceptance rate was about twelve percent. The competition was extremely fierce, with many innovative and high-quality proposals submitted. The eight individuals below will be presenting their dissertation proposals in October in San Diego, CA to a distinguished panel of judges who will select the winner and runner-up. If you know any of the finalists, please offer them your heartiest congratulations for this significant accomplishment. The finalists are:
N. Andrew Cohen
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton
"Bridging the Gap: Managers' External Relationships and Their
Effects on Subordinates' Performance and Work Attitudes"
Jason Greenberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Lifeblood or Liability? Schumpeter, Stinchcombe, and
the Double-edged Sword of Strangers in the Startup Process"
Shon Hiatt
Cornell University – ILR School
"The Impact of Institutional Actors as Attention Structures
on Entrepreneurial Activity in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry"
Ana Elisa Iglesias
Georgia State University
"To Forbear or Not To Forbear? A Behavioral Perspective of Multimarket Competition"
Shimul Melwani
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton
"A Little Bird Told Me...: Emotions, Reputations and Relationships
as Consequences of Workplace Gossip"
Otilia Obodaru
INSEAD
"The Selves We Could Have Been:
Introducing the Construct of Alternative Professional Identity"
Renee Rottner
University of California - Irvine
"The Life of a Project: Accomplishing Legitimacy in Sustained Innovation"
Lori Qingyuan Yue
Columbia University
"Self-governance, Community Structures, and the Survival
of Commercial Banks in Manhattan, 1840-1980"
I would also like to express by sincere thanks and appreciation to the 80 scholars who generously volunteered their time to provide reviews of the candidate proposals. This competition would be nothing without them, and I am grateful to them for their willingness to provide thoughtful and timely feedback. The individuals who reviewed for this year's competition are:
Emily Amanatullah – University of Texas-Austin
Caroline Bartel – University of Texas-Austin
Marla Baskerville-Watkins – Northeastern University
Maura Belliveau – Emory University
Jennifer Berdahl – University of Toronto
Y. Sekou Bermiss – University of Texas-Austin
Heather Berry – Wharton
Lyda Bigelow – University of Utah
Emily Block – Notre Dame University
Ethan Burris – University of Texas-Austin
Ben Campbell – Ohio State University
Marlys Christianson – University of Toronto
Lisa Cohen – London Business School
Ben Cole – New York University
Matt Cronin – George Mason University
Tina Dacin – Queens University
Robert David – McGill University
Erik Dane – Rice University
Jim Detert – Cornell University
Gina Dokko – University of California – Davis
Lorna Doucet – China Europe Int'l Business School
Deborah Dougherty – Rutgers University
Glenn Dowell – Cornell University
Tracy Dumas – Emory University
Gary Dushnitsky – Wharton
Jamie Eggers – New York University
Aleks Ellis – University of Arizona
Heather Elms – American University
Laura Erskine – Illinois State University
Alison Fragale – University of North Carolina
Heidi Gardner – Harvard University
Giovanni Gavetti – Harvard University
Yan Gong - University of California-Irvine
Melissa Graebner – University of Texas-Austin
Martine Haas – Wharton
Ben Hallen – University of Maryland
Jared Harris – University of Virginia
Ben Herndon – University of Texas-Austin
Jennifer Howard-Grenville – University of Oregon
Diana Jimeno-Ingrum – Notre Dame University
Sarah Kaplan – Wharton
Riitta Katila – Stanford University
Katherine Kellogg – MIT
Jay Kim – University of Southern California
Donald Lange – Arizona State University
Kyle Lewis – University of Texas-Austin
Michael Lounsbury – University of Alberta
Muir MacPherson – Georgetown University
Tammy Madsen – Santa Clara University
Michael Mannor – Notre Dame University
Chris Marquis – Harvard University
Paul Martorana – University of Texas-Austin
Justin Miller – New York University
Denisa Mindruta – HEC Paris
Yuri Mishina – Michigan State University
Celia Moore – London Business School
Jennifer Mueller – Wharton
Gerardo Okhuysen – University of Utah
Susan Perkins – Northwestern University
Corey Phelps – University of Washington
Ming Piao – University of Utah
Jo-Ellen Pozner – Univ. of California-Berkeley
Phanish Puranam – London Business School
Evan Rawley – Wharton
Chris Rider – Emory University
Scott Sonenshein – Rice University
Taryn Stanko – University of Oregon
Colleen Stuart – University of Toronto
Dara Szyliowicz – University of the Pacific
Cathy Tinsley – Georgetown University
Freek Vermeulen – London Business School
Tim Vogus – Vanderbilt University
Jim Wade – Georgetown University
Klaus Weber – Northwestern University
Karl Wennberg – Stockholm School of Economics
Jennifer Whitson – University of Texas-Austin
Charlie Williams – Duke University
Amy Wrzesniewski – Yale University
Brian Wu – University of Michigan
Minyuan Zhao – University of Michigan
Joe Broschak
2009 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition Chair
Joseph P. Broschak
Associate Professor
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
Department of Management & Organizations
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