It is my great pleasure to announce this year's finalists in the
INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. We
received sixty-three proposals this year. Eight finalists were chosen
based on evaluations by three reviewers. Thus, the acceptance rate was
about thirteen 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 November in
Austin, TX 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:
Adam Cobb
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
“From the 'Treaty of Detroit' to the 401(k): The Development, Evolution
and Consequences of Privatized Welfare in the United States”
Flannery Garnett
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
“Community Matters: Uncovering the societal mechanisms undergirding
workplace discrimination and inequality”
Amol Joshi
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business
School
“Entrepreneurial Discovery and Information Complexity in Knowledge-Intensive
Industries”
Tomasz Obloj
INSEAD
“Incentive Life-Cycles. Learning and the Division of Value within Firms”
Jennifer Petriglieri
INSEAD
“Identity threat: Antecedents, dynamics, and consequences”
Erin Reid
Harvard Business School and Harvard University
“How Real is the Ideal Worker? Understanding the Sources and Consequences
of Men’s Professional Identities”
Adina Sterling
Emory University
“Who You Know: Pre-entry Contacts and Post-entry Social Structure”
Mary Stimmler
UC Berkeley - MORS
“Calculated Risk: the institutional logic of risk management and its
consequences for individual decision making and organizational risk taking”
I would also like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the 118
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:
Alcacer, Juan
Ashforth, Blake
Baskerville, Marla
Belliveau, Maura
Benner, Mary
Bermiss, Yerodin
Berry, Heather
Birkinshaw, Julian
Block, Emily
Boal, Kim
Booth, Jonathan
Borchert, Patricia
Bromiley, Phil
Broschak, Joe
Burmeister, Katrin
Burris, Ethan
Burton, Rich
Carrascoso, Angelo
Castilla, Emilio
Christianson, Marlys
Cole, Benjamin
Cronin, Matthew
David, Robert
Devaughn, Michael
Dokko, Gina
Doucet, Lorna
Dowell, Glen
Dukerich, Janet
Dumas, Tracy
Eckhardt, Jon
Eden, Lorraine
Elms, Heather
Forbes, Daniel
Ganco, Martin
Gerhart, Barry
Gibson, Cristina
Goldfarb, Brent
Gong, Yan
Graebner, Melissa
Hallen, Benjamin
Hargrave, Timothy
Hart, David
Heimeriks, Koen
Herndon, Benjamin
Howard-Grenville, Jennifer
Hunter, Chip
Islam, Mazhar
James, Sharon
Kaul, Aseem
Keupp, Marcus
Kim, Jay (Jiyub)
King, Andrew
Kraatz, Matthew S.
Lamont, Bruce
Lange, Donald
Leonardelli, Geoffrey
Leslie, Lisa
Livengood, R. Scott
Macher, Jeffrey
Macpherson, J. Muir
Mahoney, Joe
Maitland, Ian
Maloney, Mary
Marcus, Alfred A.
Marquis, Christopher
Metiu, Anca
Moore, Celia
Mueller, Jenn
Ocasio, William
Okhmatovskiy, Ilya
Okhuysen, Gerardo
Olson, Craig
Papenhausen, Chris
Park, Sangchan
Peterson, Mark
Phelps, Corey
Piao, Ming
Pollock, Timothy
Ren, Yuqing
Rerup, Claus
Rider, Chris
Ridley, David
Rindova, Violina
Schilling, Melissa
Schnatterly, Karen
Schultz, Frank
Schwab, Andreas
Seidel, Marc-David
Shah, Pri
Shaver, J. Myles
Simsek, Zeki
Sine, Wesley
Sojourner, Aaron`
Sonenshein, Scott
Sorenson, Olav
Souder, David
Spencer, Jennifer
Stahl, Gnter
Toh, Puaykhoon
Tripsas, Mary
Tsai, Wenpin
Vaaler, Paul
Van De Ven, Andrew
Vasudeva, Gurneeta
Vogus, Timothy
Von Hippel, Eric
Vroom, Govert
Wade, James
Weber, Klaus
Whetten, Dave
Williams, Charles
Wu, Brian
Yakubovich, Valery
Zaheer, Akbar
Zahra, Shaker
Zenger, Todd
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn
2010 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition Chair