Best Dissertation Proposal Competition
Purpose of the Award
Now in its 20th year, the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations. Eight finalists will be chosen, based on reviews by experienced referees. Finalists will present their dissertation proposals in a workshop on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at the fall INFORMS Conference held in Phoenix, AZ. During the workshop finalists will receive detailed feedback from a panel of respected organizational scholars who act as final judges for the competition. The all-day workshop also provides a wonderful opportunity to interact with a small group of future colleagues. At the workshop, the judges will select a winner and a runner up.
2012 Committee Chair:
Jared D. Harris
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
University of Virginia
Darden School of Business
FOB 182
Charlottesville, VA 22906-6500
Phone: +1-434-243-5022
E-mail: harrisj@darden.virginia.edu
Past Awardees
| 2012 | Finalist Sean R. Martin, Cornell University Mary-Hunter McDonnell, Northwestern University Jay O’Toole, University of Wisconsin Ryan L. Raffaelli, Boston College Elizabeth D. Rouse, Boston College Andrew K. Schnackenberg, Case Western Reserve University Melissa A. Valentine, Harvard University Shellwyn L. Weston, New York University |
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| 2011 | First Place Jessica Kennedy, University of California, Berkeley |
| Finalist Michael Bikard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Andreea Gorbatai, Harvard University | |
| Shoko Kato, Syracuse University | |
| Jessica Kennedy, University of California, Berkeley | |
| Kenji Klein, University of California, Irvine | |
| Erin Scott, Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Daniel Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Jeffrey Treem, Northwestern University | |
| 2010 | First Place Jennifer Petriglieri, INSEAD |
| Second Place Mary Kate Stimmler, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2009 | First Place Renee Rottner, University of California-Irvine |
| Finalist N. Andrew Cohen, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Shon Hiatt, Cornell University | |
| Ana Elisa Iglesias, Georgia State University | |
| Shimul Melwani, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Otilia Obodaru, INSEAD | |
| Lori Qingyuan Yue, Columbia University | |
| Runner-Up Jason Greenberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2008 | First Place H. Colleen Stuart, University of Toronto |
| 2007 | First Place Heidi Gardner, London Business School |
| Finalist Marla Baskerville, Tulane University | |
| Y. Sekou Bermiss, Northwestern University | |
| Denisa Mindruta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | |
| Christopher Rider, University of California at Berkeley | |
| Mario Schijven, Tilburg University | |
| Karl Wennberg, Stockholm School of Economics | |
| Runner-Up J.P. Eggers, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2006 | First Place Celia Moore, University of Toronto |
| Finalist Benjamin Cole, University of Michigan | |
| Laura Erskine, University of Southern California | |
| Yan Gong, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Ben Hallen, Stanford University | |
| Mike Pfarrer, University of Maryland | |
| Brian Wu, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Runner-Up Michael Ashworth, Carnegie-Mellon University | |
| 2005 | First Place Susan Perkins, New York University |
| Second Place Sharon James Wade, University of Minnesota | |
| Donald A. Lange, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Finalist Jared D. Harris, University of Minnesota | |
| Donald A. Lange, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Arik Lifschitz, Columbia University | |
| Ilya Okhmatovskiy, University of Southern California | |
| Ming Piao, Northwestern University | |
| Kim-Chi Wakefield Trinh, Duke University | |
| 2004 | First Place Micki Eisenman, Columbia University |
| Kate Kellogg, Sloan School of Management, MIT | |
| Second Place Govert Vroom, INSEAD | |
| Finalist Michel Anteby, Stern School of Business, New York University | |
| Scott Johnson, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota | |
| June-Young Kim, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| Christopher Marquis, University of Michigan | |
| Thomas Moliterno, University of California, Irvine | |
| 2003 | First Place Minyuan Zhao, New York University |
| Second Place Gina Dokko, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Finalist Gino Cattani, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Mary Dunn, Boston College | |
| Sarah Kaplan, MIT | |
| Taco H. Reus, Florida State University | |
| Nina Shah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Andrew V. Shipilov, University of Toronto | |
| Tim Simcoe, University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2002 | First Place Anne Parmigiani, University of Michigan |
| Second Place Myeong-Gu Seo, Boston College | |
| Finalist Ben Bryant, London Business School | |
| Dania A. Dialdin, Northwestern University | |
| Seok-Woo Kwon, University of Southern California | |
| Klaus Weber, University of Michigan | |
| Beiging (Emery) Yao, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Sai Yayavaram, University of Texas - Austin | |
| 2001 | First Place Ann Terlaak, University of California - Santa Barbara |
| Second Place Alexandra Kalev, Princeton University Robert Salomon, NYU | |
| Finalist Michael DeVaughn Patrick L. Schultz Charles Williams Samina Z. Karim Karen Page | |
| 2000 | First Place Daniel Byrd, University of Michigan |
| Second Place Phanish Puranum, Wharton Markus Vodesek, University of Michigan | |
| 1999 | First Place Jay Kim, University of Wisconsin |
| 1998 | First Place Lydia Bigelow, University of California-Berkeley |
| 1997 | First Place Timothy Pollock, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 1996 | First Place Nancy Staudenmayer, MIT |
| Second Place Constance James, UCLA | |
| 1995 | First Place Gautam Ahuja, University of Michigan |
| Second Place Anne Cummings, University of Illinois Tammy Madsen, UCLA | |
| 1994 | First Place Mary Tripsas, MIT |
| Second Place Anne Marie Knott, UCLA | |
| 1993 | First Place Eric Darr, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Second Place Tina Diekmann, Northwestern University | |
| 1992 | First Place Mark Suchman, Stanford University Jeff Dyer, UCLA |
| 1991 | First Place Pam Haunschild, Carnegie Mellon University |
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Second Place
Brian Uzzi,
SUNY Stonybrook and Northwestern University |
