Rotman Faculty in Finance, Operations Management, and Strategic Management Receive Honours

Toronto, August 14, 2014 – Three faculty members along with a graduate of the PhD program at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been recognized for their research.

Two professors, Craig Doidge and Bill McEvily, have been named by Thomson Reuters among the world’s most highly cited scientific researchers in a new review of articles which appeared in science and social science academic journals over an 11 year period beginning in 2002.

Doidge is an associate professor of finance at the Rotman School. His research and teaching interests include international financial markets and corporate finance. He has published numerous papers in leading finance journals, including the Journal of Finance and Journal of Financial Economics

McEvily is a professor of strategic management at the Rotman School. His research explores social capital as an organizational and strategic resource. His research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Strategic Management Journal.

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Philipp Afèche, an associate professor of operations management, has won the 2014 Best Paper Award of the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) for his paper Incentive-Compatible Revenue Management in Queuing Systems: Optimal Strategic Delay.  M&SOM is the premier journal of the operations management research community. This annual award is given to the paper, published in one of the prior three volumes of M&SOM, that is deemed by the editorial board to be most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management (visit here for a list of past winners).

At the recent annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Christian Catalini, a graduate of the Rotman PhD program, won the 2014 Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Academy’s Business Policy and Strategy Division for “Three Essays on the Impact of Geographic and Social Proximity on Innovation." Catalini is currently an assistant professor of technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategic management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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