Organizational Behavior
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Heidi K. Gardner has won the 2009 award for Outstanding Practical Implications from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management for "Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance."
Michael L. Tushman received the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Université de Genève in 2008.
Rakesh Khurana has won both the 2008 Max Weber Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Organization, Occupations and Work and the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Publishing Book in Business, Finance and Management from the Association of American Publishers, for his book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press, 2007).
Heidi K. Gardner won the 2007 Best Dissertation Proposal Competition from the Organization Science division of INFORMS for "Expertise Utilization in Project Teams: A Status-based Account of Process and Performance" (Ph.D. diss., London Business School, 2008).
Michel Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski's paper, "Focusing on Lone Trees in the Forest: Members' Experience of a Multiple Identity Organization," was selected for the 2007 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Robin J. Ely and David A. Thomas won the 2007 Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contribution for their paper, "Cultural Diversity at Work: The Effects of Diversity Perspectives on Work Group Processes and Outcomes" Administrative Science Quarterly, June 2001. The award was established in 1995 to recognize authors of papers published in ASQ that have made exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies and is given annually for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier.
Robin Ely received the 2007 Academy of Management Mentoring Best Practices Award and the Making Connections Award by the OB Division of the Academy of Management.
Michael Beer received the 2007 Michael C. Losey Research Award from the Society for Human Resource Management. The award "recognizes a premier HR researcher for significant past accomplishment and facilitates continuing contributions."
David A. Thomas received the 2006 Academy of Management Mentoring Legacy Award.
Michael Beer received the 2006 Harry and Miriam Levinson Award for Exceptional Contributions to Consulting Organizational Psychology from the American Psychological Foundation. The Levinson Award recognizes an APA member who has demonstrated exceptional ability to integrate a wide variety of psychological theories and concepts, and to convert that integration into applications by which leaders and managers can create more effective, healthy, and humane organizations.
Michael Beer received the 2006 Distinguished Scientist-Practitioner Award from the Academy of Management.
Michael Beer received the 2006 Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. One of the Society's highest honors, the award recognizes longtime and significant contributions to the study of human behavior in the workplace.
Christopher Marquis was awarded the 2006 Louis R. Pondy Award for the Best Paper Based on a Dissertation and the 2006 William H. Newman award for Best Paper Based on a Dissertation, both from the Academy of Management, for his work entitled "Historical Development of Organizational Capabilities in the US Banking Industry, 1978-2001." He also received the State Farm Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2005.
Robin Ely and Debra E. Meyerson's paper "Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity" was selected for the 2006 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Robin Ely and Irene Padavic's paper "Feminist Analysis of Micro Research on Gender in Organizations: Suggestions for Advancing the Field" was selected for the 2005 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Michael L. Tushman was named 2005 Lecturer of the Year at CHAMPS, Chalmers University of Technology.
Nitin Nohria, along with co-author Morten Hansen, won the 2005 Price Waterhouse Coopers Best Article Award from the MIT Sloan Management Review for "How to Build Collaborative Advantage" (MIT Sloan Management Review, 2004).
Robin Ely received the 2005 Sage Distinguished Scholarship Award from the Academy of Management for outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of gender and diversity in organizations.
Michel Anteby received the 2005 David Graifman Memorial Award and the 2005 Herman E. Krooss Outstanding Dissertation award from New York University.
Jay W. Lorsch was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Founded in 1780, the AAAS is an international learned society composed of the world's leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders, including 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners.