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Department News
► Chris
Bingham received a three year
National Science Foundation grant to
better understand the question of "How
firms learn from their experience."
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Debra L.
Shapiro, has been appointed
Clarice Smith Professor of Management
and Organization. Her research
generally focuses on the various ways to
effectively manage conflict or disputes
in organizations, including perceptions
of organizational injustice,
misunderstandings and frustrations that
are inevitable in
internationally-diverse and cross
functional teams, and resistance to
organizational change in general or the
transition to self-managing work teams
in particular.
►David
Kirsch
was interviewed on the National Public
Radio program, Marketplace, about
the phenomena reported in
Forbes
magazine, that the number of
billionaires jumped 15 percent this year
over last.
► Bob Baum
was interviewed by the Baltimore
Business Journal about his New Venture
Study.
Click here to read the interview.
► Ken Smith
was elected the vice-president elect and
program chair elect of the Academy of
Management. This is a five year
commitment leading to the presidency of
the Academy of Management. He will be
program chair of the Honolulu meeting in
2005 and President of the Academy in
2007.
► Anil
Gupta and Ken Smith (along with
Christina Shalley from Georgia Tech)
were invited by Academy of Management
Journal to co-edit a special issue
on “Managing Exploration and
Exploitation.”
►Kathryn
Bartol
has been selected as the 2006 recipient
of the Academy of Management's
Distinguished Service Award. This is one
of the highest honors the Academy of
Management bestows on its members. This
award will be presented at the
Presidential Luncheon on Tuesday, August
15, 2006 at this year's annual meeting
of the Academy of Management in Atlanta.
►Edwin
A. Locke,
professor emeritus, has been selected as
the 2006 recipient of the Academy of
Management's Distinguished Scholarly
Contributions Award. This prestigious
award annually for significant scholarly
contributions that have advanced
management and organizational knowledge
and practice.
►Jeff Kudisch
and his teaching partner Professor
Gerold Frick of Germany were awarded the
Team Teaching Award 2007 for
their performance during the Graduate
School of Business Administration (GSBA)
Zurich HRM-EMBA block that was taught in
September 2006. The team was selected by
the Award Jury of GSBA. This is the
second year in a row that they have won
this prestigious award.
►Chris
Bingham's paper, "Opening the black
box of capability creation: The
internationalization of entrepreneurial
firms" won the 2005 Atlanta Competitive
Advantage Conference Best Paper Award.
►
J. Robert Baum won the Allen J.
Krowe Award for 2005. The Allen
J. Krowe Awards for Teaching Excellence
are the most prestigious teaching awards
at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business. The awards are an important
and continuing vehicle designed to
motivate Smith School faculty to perform
excellently in their teaching
activities, and to reward them when they
do so.
► David
Kirsch has been awarded the IEEE
Life Members’ Prize for his coauthored
paper (with Gijs Mom), "Visions of
Transportation: The EVC and the
Transition from Service- to
Product-Based mobility," Business
History Review, 76 (Spring, 2002):
75-110.
► Debra
Shapiro was elected to the Society
of Organizational Behavior
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