Organizational Behavior
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Gianpiero Petriglieri and Jennifer L. Petriglieri received the 2011 Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) Award for the most significant contribution to graduate management education, presented by the MED Division, Academy of Management, for their paper with Jack Wood, "Up Close and Personal: Developing Foundations for Leader Development through Personalization of Management Learning" (Academy of Management Learning and Education 10, no. 3).
Jay W. Lorsch was selected for the 2011 National Association of Corporate Board Directors (NACD) Directorship 100 by the NACD advisory council for significant impact on the field of corporate governance and in the boardroom.
Roy Chua received the 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Journal of Trust Research.
Michael L. Tushman received the 2011 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour & Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School.
Michel Anteby won the 2010 EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) Best Paper Award for his paper, "Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers" (Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 4).
Robert G. Eccles won the 2010 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Business, Finance & Management category for his book with Michael Krzus, One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (John Wiley and Sons, 2010). This award is given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
Boris Groysberg's Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance (Princeton University Press, 2010) won the Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2010 in the Human Capital category.
Boris Groysberg and Linda Eling-Lee received a 2010 Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence for their paper, "Hiring Stars and Their Colleagues: Exploration and Exploitation in Professional Service Firms" (Organization Science 20, no. 4).
Shon R. Hiatt's paper with Sangchan Park, "Lords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms," was included in the 2010 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Rakesh Khurana's book with Nitin Nohria, The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice (Harvard Business Press, 2010), was named Best Leadership Book of 2010 by the International Leadership Association.
Michael L. Tushman was honored with the 2010 INFORMS Distinguished Lecture in Technology Management.
Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang's paper, "The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking" (Academy of Management Journal, 2009), was a 2010 runner-up for the Academy of Management's Best Published Paper in organization and management theory. The Best Published Paper Award recognizes a journal paper published in the previous year that advances our theoretical understanding of organizations, organizing, and management.
Shon Hiatt received a 2009 Kauffman Entrepreneurship Dissertation Fellowship Award for his paper, "The Influence of Heterogeneous Institutional Actors on New Venture Foundings, Technological Variation, and Survival in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry."
Scott A. Snook, Paul T. Bartone, Jarle Eid, Bjorn Helge Johnsen, and Jon Christian Laberg's paper, "Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance" (2009), won a 2010 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence for an Outstanding Paper in Leadership & Organization Development Journal.
Charles O'Reilly, Mike Tushman, and Bruce Harreld won the 2010 Accenture Award for the article "Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities" (California Management Review, 2009). The Accenture Award is given each year to the author (or authors) of the article published in the preceding volume of the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.
Joshua D. Margolis won the 2009 Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior Award from the Academy of Management for the paper (with Andrew Molinsky) "Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological Engagement and the Production of Interpersonally Sensitive Behavior" in the Academy of Management Journal (2008).
Julie Battilana was selected by the French-American Foundation as one of 20 participants (10 French and 10 American) in the 2009 Young Leader program. The French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental organization linking France and the United States at leadership levels and across the full range of the French-American relationship.
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." The paper was also included in the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Heidi K. Gardner's paper "Expertise Utilization in Accounting & Consulting Teams: The Effects of Shared Representations" was included in the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Roy Y.J. Chua's paper (with Billian Sullivan and Michael W. Morris) "Compelled to Help: Effects of Direct and Indirect Exchange on Perceived Obligation in Professional Networks" was included in the 2009 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
Jay W. Lorsch was elected to Directorship magazine's Corporate Governance Hall of Fame in 2009. Hall of Fame members are "a select number of exemplary individuals who have so uniquely contributed to the shape of modern corporate governance that they deserve special recognition."
Shon Hiatt received the 2008 Best Paper Award from the Administrative Science Association of Canada for his paper, "From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Emergence of Entrepreneurial Opportunities" (Administrative Science Quarterly 54, no. 4, December 2009).
Shon Hiatt received the 2008 Benjamin Miller Best Dissertation Proposal Award for his paper, "The Influence of Heterogeneous Institutional Actors on Entrepreneurial Exploitation in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry."
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 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of 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).
Julie Battilana won the 2007 European Foundation for Management development's (EFMD) Award in the category "Public sector Innovations" for her case with A.-M. Cagna, T. D'Aunno and M. Gilmartin, "Empowering Nurses at University College London Hospitals" (2006, INSEAD).
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).
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 J. 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."