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Rotman School Faculty and PhDs Honoured for Research and Service by the Academy of Management.

Toronto, August 15, 2022 – Faculty at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, as well as current and former PhD students, were honoured for their research and service contributions at the annual conference of the Academy of Management held in Seattle earlier this month.

A study, co-authored by Prof. Anita McGahan and Prof. Keyvan Vakili of London Business School, who is a graduate of the Rotman PhD program in strategic management, received the Impact Award for their article, Health Care’s Grand Challenge: Stimulating Basic Science on Diseases that Primarily Afflict the Poor, published in Academy of Management Journal (AMJ). The award is given annually in recognition of an AMJ article, published at any point throughout AMJ’s history, that exemplifies the harmony of theoretical and practical contribution. The award also amplifies high-quality research that has had, or is most likely to have in the future, a positive impact on individuals, groups, organizations, and society. Prof. McGahan is University Professor, professor of strategic management and the George E. Connell Chair in Organizations & Society at the Rotman School and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

A session organized and led by Solomiya Draga, a Rotman PhD student in organizational behaviour and HR management and co-organized by Marlys Christianson, an associate professor of organizational behaviour and HR management and Rachel Ruttan, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour and HR management, received the Best Symposium Award from the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division. The session was titled "Creating a Better World: Towards Better Management of Distress and Trauma in the Workplace."

Ryann Manning, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour and HR management, received the 2022 Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award for her paper, "Constructing Proximity for Distanced Moral Action during an Ebola Outbreak," from the Organization and Management Theory Division

Two papers received a “2022 Responsible Research in Management” Award from the Academy of Management Fellows and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management. This annual award recognizes and celebrates recent research that benefits society by producing credible and useful knowledge.

Covering in Cover Letters: Gender and Self-Presentation in Job Applications is co-authored by Prof. Joyce He, a Rotman PhD graduate in organizational behaviour and HR Management who is now at UCLA Anderson, and Sonia Kang, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and is an associate professor of organizational behaviour and HR management at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Rotman School. The paper was published in the Academy of Management Journal. Frenemies: Overcoming Audiences’ Ideological Opposition to Firm-Activist Collaborations, by Kate Odziemkowska, an assistant professor of strategic management, which was published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, also received the award.

Prof. He also received a Society for Business Ethics Best Dissertation Award for “Lean In or Don’t Lean Out? Opt-Out Framing Attenuates Gender Differences in the Decision to Compete.”

Prof. Sarah Kaplan received the 2022 Scholarly Contributions to Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division. Kaplan is the director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy, a Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy, and a professor of strategic management. Her book, The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, published by Stanford University Press in 2019, was a finalist for the Social Issues in Management Division’s Best Book Award. Prof. Kaplan also received a service award for exemplary service as a senior editor for Organizational Science.

Prof. Astrid Marinoni, a graduate of the Rotman PhD program in strategic management, who is now at Georgia Tech, received the Technology and Innovation Management Division’s Best Dissertation award.

Prof. Amir Sariri, a graduate of the Rotman PhD program in strategic management, who is now at Purdue University, is the winner of the Heizer Dissertation Award from the Entrepreneurship Division.

A paper by Andy Back, a Rotman PhD student in strategic management, was a runner-up for the Best Student Paper award in the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy. The paper is titled “Broadcasting of network ties: Leveraging (random) encounters as an attention-seeking tool.”

As previously announced, Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business published in 2021 by Simon & Schuster, co-authored by Prof. Tiziana Casciaro, was awarded the Academy’s George R. Terry Book Award. The award which is granted annually to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge during the last two years.

Prof. Gary Latham is the 2022 recipient of the Dave Ulrich Impact Award for his contributions to broadly advancing the practice of human resource management.

The Academy of Management is the largest global association devoted to management and organization research, with 20,000 members from more than 120 countries across six continents. In addition to Insights, an online magazine with easy-to-read, evidence-based research for managers and business leaders, AOM publishes six top-rated journals with the most authoritative and diverse management research findings.

Bringing together high-impact faculty research and thought leadership on one searchable platform, the new Rotman Insights Hub offers articles, podcasts, opinions, books and videos representing the latest in management thinking and providing insights into the key issues facing business and society. Visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub.

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