Department News

Success again from our doctoral students in the 2007 Academy of Management paper submissions. A total of 26 papers were accepted and three papers in the Best Paper Proceedings! Please click here to see details of paper titles and authors.

Congratulations to Professor Blake Ashforth. Blake was awarded the "Outstanding Teaching Award - Working Professional MBA or Masters Programs" at the W. P. Carey School Faculty Awards and Recognition event on April 18th.

Congratulations to Marianne Jennings. Marianne presented “The Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse: How to Spot Moral Meltdown in Companies Before It Is Too Late” in Mexico City on April 19th. Her presentation is part of an annual speaker series hosted jointly by El Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and the W. P. Carey School of Business.

Congratulations to Professor Blake Ashforth. Blake was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 on Feb. 21, in a show called “Thinking Allowed,” hosted by Laurie Taylor. During the segment titled “Good people and dirty work,” Ashforth discussed how workers employed in so-called “dirty occupations” retain relatively high self-esteem and pride. To listen to the podcast, Click here.

Congratulations to Gerry Keim for participating Feb. 12 in the EMBA Western Regional Conference, hosted by Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale. He presented on the topic: “Business and Public Policy in an EMBA Curriculum.”

Congratulations to Gerry Keim, he presented at the MBA Leadership Conference on Jan. 31 – Feb. 3 in Tampa, Fl. His topic, “Measuring and Increasing the Satisfaction of Part-time MBA Students,” was presented jointly with Gloria Batllori, executive director of the MBA Programs Unit at ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and Lauren Mounty, associate dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University, New York.

Congratulations to Peggy Lee, Assistant Professor, she will be the featured guest speaker at the February 22 meeting of the Mexico City Business Club of W. P. Carey MBA Graduates.  Lee will discuss strategic leadership – based on the observation that the leadership needs of organizations vary by the stage of the organization’s existence.

Congratulations to Robert Hoskisson and Albert Cannella along with Laszlo Tihanyi for winning runner up for best paper presented at the Strategic Management Society, Vienna, Austria. The paper was titled "Persistence or convergence: Institutional and modernization determinants of multinationality".

Congratulations to Marianne Jennings. She was featured in the September 2006 issue of Arizona Woman magazine. The article interviews five women in top leadership roles at major Valley universities. Marianne was recently appointed as faculty director of the MBA Executive Program.

Congratulations to doctoral students Sushil Nifadkar, Christy Shropshire, and Kathryn Jacobson. Sushil and Kathryn won the "2006 Outstanding Reviewer Award" from the AoM OB division while Christy won the "2006 Outstanding Reviewer Award" from the AoM BPS Division.

Congratulations to Professor Amy Hillman. Amy has been named the Jerry and Mary Ann Chapman Professor.

Congratulations to Professor Blake Ashforth. Blake has been named the Rusty Lyon Chair in Strategy.

Congratulations to Marianne Jennings, who recently received a Citation of Excellence Award for her article “Ethics and investment management: true reform.” The award is given by Emerald Management Reviews, which each year selects the top fifty articles out of a 15,000 article database.

Congratulations to John Millikin for winning a John W. Teets Outstanding Teacher Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor.

Phenomenal 100% success by our doctoral students in the 2006 Academy of Management paper submissions. A total of 25 papers were accepted among the 15 students, with 18 papers in formal presentations. We are so proud of them! Please click here to see details of paper titles and authors.

Congratulations to Blake Ashforth and co-authors Vikas Anand and Mahendra Joshi who won the Academy of Management Executive Best Paper Award for papers published in 2004. The paper was, "Business as usual: The Acceptance and Perpetuation of Corruption in Organizations," published in Academy of Management Executive.

Congratulations to Peggy Lee for her recent election to the Executive Committee of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management. This is one of the largest divisions of the Academy with more than 4500 members.

Congratulations to Blake Ashforth on his recent election to the Academy of Management Fellows Group. This is a highly prestigious group which includes less than one percent of the membership of the Academy. Election to the Fellows Group is based on lifetime contributions to the field. Blake will be one of the youngest members of this prestigious group.

Blake’s election to the Fellows Group brings another point of distinction to the Department of Management and Arizona State University– which is now among the top 5 universities in terms of having the largest number of active faculty members who have been elected to the Academy of Management Fellows. Other W. P. Carey School of Business faculty members who are Academy of Management Fellows are Luis Gomez-Mejia, Bob Hoskisson, and Anne Tsui.

Congratulations to Management Professors Blake Ashforth and Bert Cannella on their recent elections to important leadership positions within the Academy of Management. Bert is a representative at large for the Academy’s Board of Governors. Blake is the program chair elect for the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy, the largest division within the Academy.

Congratulations to Management Professor Angelo Kinicki for winning the “John W. Teets Outstanding Teacher Award: Graduate Professor”. Following his sabbatical last year, Angelo started teaching the Organizational Behavior core in the W. P. Carey MBA full-time program and launched a leadership elective that was very successful. Angelo has won multiple teaching awards over the years and has contributed tremendously to our programs.

The best solutions to excessive stress in the work place involve restructuring work rather than blaming employees for failing to cope. For more insights from Management Professor Blake Ashforth see Jon Talton’s column on stress in the workplace - April 7th Arizona Republic. Click here to read.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Balaji Koka on being selected as an incoming member of the Academy of Management Review’s editorial board.

The W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University hosted the second annual Rose Bowl of management education on Jan. 14 and 15 as some of the nation's best MBA students squared off in the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition. Click here for more information

Congratulations to Gerry Keim on being selected by the W. P. Carey MBA Students to receive the 2004 John Teets’ Outstanding Graduate Professor Award. This is the most prestigious teaching award offered to faculty in the graduate programs and adds to Gerry’s outstanding record of accomplishments in graduate education. Remarkably, this award comes during a year that Gerry launched a new course, Strategic Leadership, in the MBA core.

In another recent update of a study originally published in the Academy of Management Journal (Dennis, et al., 2001), ASU's Department of Management climbed to 3rd place internationally in research performance in top journals, up from 21st place. ASU faculty members also publish more of the leading textbooks in Management than any other university. Our faculty members have also won numerous local and international teaching awards, including citations in the prestigious Business Week's listing of the best MBA professors.

Congratulations to Amy Hillman on her recent selection and acceptance of an offer to become an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal, the premier empirical journal of the Academy of Management. Amy has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business, and Journal of Management for several years. Her selection as one of five Associate Editors for AMJ follows multiple awards for being an outstanding reviewer.

W. P. CAREY Students - Landing Interships Overseas With the assistance of the international organization AIESEC and their local advisor Lawrence Beer, students are able to gain valuable job training experience abroad. 

W. P. CAREY MBA TEAM: “ROSE BOWL” CHAMPIONS The W. P. Carey MBA student team aced the first ever Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition Saturday evening, finishing first among six teams from major business schools after 36 hours of preparation and presentations. The W. P. Carey team also received the “Best Q&A” and “Most Innovative Solutions Award.” Members of the W. P. Carey MBA team included Talli Brown, Matt Disbrow, Brian Martin and Chad Meyers. Coaches were Professors Amy Hillman and Gerry Keim. Click here for more details.

Luis Gomez-Mejia, a management professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, will be honored by the University of Minnesota with its highest alumni accolade: the Outstanding Achievement Award. The award, which recognizes Gomez-Mejia for his professional achievement as a management scholar, will be presented at a celebration at the Phoenician. Click here for the full story.

The Arizona Board of Regents has named Professor Luis Gomez-Mejia and seven others to the prestigious title of Regents’ Professor. According to finance Professor Jeffrey Coles, chairman of the nominating committee, this is one of the highest honors the university can bestow on a faculty member.

Dr. Gomez-Mejia is also the Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair and Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar in the department of management.

Gomez-Mejia is one of the leading scholars internationally in the field of management, specifically in the area of corporate governance and executive compensation. He is the founder and president of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. Named one of the world's nine most productive researchers by the leading management journal, he has published more than 115 scholarly articles and has written or edited a dozen management books. His textbook is used in most of the top 50 business schools in the nation.

CONGRATULATIONS to Balaji Koka on receiving final approval and funding for his NSF research proposal with Ravi Madhavan of U of Pittsburgh and Mike Hitt of Texas A&M (formerly of ASU). This is a credit to the quality of their proposal, entitled "Structure, Content, and Governance in an Innovation Network: An Empirical Investigation". It was submitted to the Innovation and Change group of NSF. Their primary research goal is to understand how network structure, content, and governance interact to jointly influence the effectiveness of an innovation network. In pursuing this goal, they propose to develop, refine, and pilot-test a robust model of how structure, content, and governance interact in innovation networks. The empirical context for this study is a Universal Primary Education network in India which has established a firm track record as an innovator in the development and delivery of educational programs with support from the World Bank, UNICEF, other worldwide development agencies, local governments, a wide-ranging network of corporate and individual donors, community-level organizations and business entities such as the consulting firm McKinsey.

Congratulations to Gerry Keim on his latest acceptance in the Academy of Management Review. Gerry just got word that his paper “Corporate Political Strategies for Widely Salient Issues” with J-P Bonardi has been accepted.

CONGRATULATIONS to Balaji Koka on his early notification that he will be receiving the 2003 Business Policy and Strategy Outstanding Reviewer Award at the Academy of Management Meetings in August.

FORTHCOMING ARTICLE Lawrence Beer - "The Gas Pedal and The Brake....Towards A Global Balance of Diverging Cultural Determinants in Managerial Mind Sets", to appear in the Thunderbird International Business Review, Vol. 45 (3) May-June 2003.

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CHAIRS ANNOUNCED Professor Luis Gomez-Mejia has been named to a new Arizona Heritage Chair created as a result of the University’s recently completed Campaign for Leadership.

Dr. Gomez Mejia assumes the Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair. The Arizona Heritage Chairs are the most influential and respected positions at Arizona State University, serving to honor the achievement and values of the leaders who helped shape the character of the state and the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Dr. Gomez-Mejia, recently recognized as one of the top 10 most productive scholars in the management field, is internationally known in his discipline and publishes widely in academic journals in addition to shouldering editorial roles as well.

PROFESSORHIP ANNOUNCED Professor Blake Ashforth was named the Jerry and Mary Ann Chapman Professor in Business. Dr. Ashforth’s field is organizational behavior. His latest book, Emotions at Work, is in press.

PUBLISHING KUDOS The strategy faculty has scored an outstanding record of publications in the Strategic Management Journal, the premier strategy journal.  ASU and one other school are tied for second place for the number of scholars that have been frequently-published in the journal since its inception in 1980. Specifically, Brian Boyd will be tied for 25th, and  Luis Gomez-Mejia tied for 61^st.

Luis Gomez-Mejia is one of only five individuals who simultaneously rank among the most prolific scholars in Strategic Management Journal and is among the 32 members of the Academy of Management Journals Hall of Fame.

DEANS COUNCIL OF 100 Dean Penley has named Supply Chain Management Professor Lisa Ellram and Management Professor Blake Ashforth to the Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholars. The title is awarded to Business faculty who have demonstrated the highest levels of scholarship, in both research and teaching, throughout their careers. Congratulations!

HALL OF FAME Congratulations to Luis Gomez-Mejia for being among the 33 charter members of the Academy of Management's Journals Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame membership is based on publication of a minimum of 10 refereed articles in any of the journals published by the Academy. With 3 out of 33 charter members, ASU may have the best representation of any university in the Hall of Fame.

ELECTION Congratulations to Luis Gomez-Mejia on his recent election as a Fellow of the Academy of Management. Less than 1% of Academy members ever achieve this distinction which is given in recognition of significant scholarly contributions and leadership in the Academy of Management.

This is a well deserved honor for Luis who is internationally recognized for his pioneering research in strategic human resources management, particularly in the areas of executive compensation and management in high technology arenas. He has won numerous awards for his research and has been elected to several international leadership positions within the main professional association within management, the Academy of Management. Most notably, Luis has been elected to lead both the Human Resource Management Division of the Academy of Management and the newly formed Iberoamerican Academy of Management. Luis has also served in numerous internal service roles including director and founder of two research centers and appointment as the Chair of the Management Department at ASU for five years. His dedication to teaching and the educational process is evident in his teaching evaluations, the success of his former students, and the widespread adoption of his textbook in human resource management.