Department of Management

Melissa Graebner, author of a recent study in the Academy of Management Journal, received recognition in the New York Times for the study’s findings.

NYTimes.com. Sellers beware: Study finds distrust in buyers. (Wednesday, June 24, 2009).

Violina Rindova won the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Thought Leader award for her paper “Market watch: Information and availability cascades among the media and investors in the U.S. IPO market” which is representative of the best published papers in entrepreneurship in 2008.

Emily Amanatullah was a finalist in 2008 for the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award as well as a nominee for the Academy of Management’s William H. Newman Award. Furthermore, Emily was one of two recipients who was awarded the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences’ 2007 James McKeen Cattell Award for her doctoral dissertation, “Negotiating Gender Role Stereotypes: The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes on Perceivers’ Evaluations and Target’s Behaviors in Value Claiming Negotiations and Situation Moderation by Representation Role” (with Michael Morris).

Caroline Bartel was awarded the McCombs School of Business’ 2007–08 Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors.

Johnny Sibley Butler, Director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship as well as the IC²Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, was given the Booker T. Washington Legacy Award on June 4, 2006, by The New Coalition for Economic and Social Change. Johnny was honored because of his research on the importance of business enterprise for wealth creation and job creation.

Craig Crossland received a $7,500 competitive grant from the 3M Foundation in support of his research to expand knowledge of general interest as well as to prepare students for success.

John Daly was awarded the McCombs School of Business’ 2007-08 Fawn and Vijay Mahajan Teaching Excellence Award for Executive Education.

Janet Dukerich was awarded the Harkins & Company Centennial Chair in spring 2009.

James Fredrickson has accepted the position as McCombs’ first Director of Teaching Development. In this role, he will lead in efforts to improve the quality of teaching at the business school. Jim was honored with the 2006-07 Joe D. Beasley Award, which is awarded for teaching excellence in the MBA curriculum, and also received the "Outstanding Faculty Award" by the class of 2006 Mexico City EMBA in recognition of his "Extraordinary Contribution to the Enhancement of His Students' Professional Performance."

Pamela Haunschild became the Jack R. Crosby Regents Chair in Business on September 1, 2008. She was also awarded a 2007-08 Research Excellence Grant from the McCombs Faculty Research Committee for a research project titled "Consequences of Prestige and Performance in the Market for Directors."

Andrew Henderson  was awarded the J. Anderson Fitzgerald Centennial Fellowship in spring 2009. 

George Huber was awarded the 2006-07 Career Award for Outstanding Research Contributions, which recognizes significant research contributions made by a professor over an extended period of time. Professor Huber also received this biennial award in 1989, and received it in 2007 based on his research contributions made subsequent to his receiving it in 1989. He is the only faculty member to have received this award more than once. Professor Huber retired from the university on August 31, 2008, though he continues to research.

Kyle Lewis was awarded the CBA Foundation Advisory Council Centennial Fellowship #1 in spring 2009. She was awarded the 2006-07 Award for Research Excellence, which is given to a professor who has made a significant research contribution in one or more areas of business either by a single research project or a related set of projects.

Jeffrey Martin won the Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize for 2007. This award honors “substantial work published in SMJ” in terms of continuing citations and overall impact. The award is for his paper titled “Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They?” (with Kathy Eisenhardt).

Paul Martorana became a Humanities Institute faculty fellow in spring of 2009. He also was awarded a 2007 Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.

Francisco Polidoro was one of two recipients who was awarded the 2008 Likert Dissertation Paper Award, which is given every other year by the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies to the author of a paper based on a dissertation that makes the most significant contribution to organizational studies. He also received the following awards at the 2007 Academy of Management Annual Conference: Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management Division; Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division; and the ABCD (Outstanding Reviewer) Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division.

Violina Rindova was awarded the 2008-09 McCombs Research Excellence Award.  She will be appointed to the rank of full professor on September 1, 2009, and will become a Humanities Institute faculty fellow in spring of 2010.