Please join us in congratulating Arianna Marchetti for winning the 2021 Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled "Organization Culture and Firm Performance"!
We would also like to once again recognize and congratulate all 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
We all enjoyed the presentations by each of these finalists during session 1136 on Tuesday, August 3rd at the August annual conference and we look forward to seeing future contributions from all of these scholars.
Sincerely,
2021 STR Officers Samina, Tim, Heather, Michael and Louise
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Heather Berry
STR Division Chair Elect
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