Five Rotman School Professors Honoured for Achievements in Research and Teaching.
Toronto, March 4, 2020 – Five faculty members in the areas of accounting, organizational behaviour, marketing and strategic management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management have been honoured with awards for their success in research and teaching.
Three faculty members were awarded with the Roger Martin Awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Established by Prof. Roger Martin, a former Dean of the Rotman School, the awards are presented annually to faculty members who have achieved distinction for their teaching or research activities. This year’s winner of the Roger Martin Excellence in Research Award is Prof. Katy DeCelles. The co-winners of the Roger Martin Excellence in Teaching Award are Profs. Marlys Christianson and Elisa Zuliani.
Prof. Avi Goldfarb is the recipient of the Outstanding Research Impact Award, which recognizes research and other professional activity that has a significant impact on external non-academic audiences including the business and public policy communities both locally and internationally.
Prof. Joshua S. Gans is the winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award, which recognizes and encourages research and research-related service that contribute to the development of a robust and dynamic research environment within and beyond the Rotman community.
Marlys Christianson is an associate professor of organizational behavior & human resource management. She received a PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan. She teaches across multiple programs including Rotman Commerce, MBA, Global Executive MBA, and PhD where she consistently achieves extraordinarily high teaching evaluations. Her research interests include the coordination of complex and interdependent work, sensemaking in high-risk environments, and resilient organizing, particularly as it relates to error detection and correction.
Katy DeCelles is an associate professor of organizational behavior & human resource management, cross-appointed to UofT’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. Her research is on the intersection of organizational behavior and criminology. She focuses on understanding the micro-mechanisms involved in conflict, power, inequality, activism and aggression as they relate to organizations. Her award-winning research has been highlighted in outlets such as the Smithsonian Magazine, BBC, CNN, and The New York Times. She was recently appointment as deputy editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
Joshua S.Gans is a professor of strategic management and holder of the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair in of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School, where he is also Chief Economist of the Creative Destruction Lab. With varied research interests, he has developed specialities in the nature of technological competition and innovation, economic growth, publishing economics, industrial organisation and regulatory economics. He publishes frequently in leading journals in economics and strategy, and is a co-author of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, published in 2018 by Harvard Business Review Press. His most recent book is Innovation + Equality: How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator from The MIT Press. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a department editor at Management Science.
Avi Goldfarb is a professor of marketing, the Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, Chief Data Scientist at the Rotman School’s Creative Destruction Lab, Senior Editor at Marketing Science, a Fellow at Behavioral Economics in Action at Rotman, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a co-author of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, published in 2018 by Harvard Business Review Press. His research on the economics of technology has been discussed in White House reports, Congressional testimony, European Commission documents, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, CBC Radio, National Public Radio, Forbes, the Atlantic, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere
Elisa Zuliani is the Academic Director, Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting Program (GDipPA) and an Associate Professor (Teaching Stream) in Accounting. Her teaching focuses on financial and managerial in undergraduate and graduate programs including Rotman Commerce, MBA and the GDipPA, where she receives consistently high teaching evaluations. Her area of specialty is Integrated Case Analysis that focuses on all aspects of accounting using the competency based evaluation approach, which is used extensively in professional examinations.
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