The Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 COLE Dissertation Proposal Competition.
Andrew Cohen (First Place) – The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Bridging the Gap: Managers' External Relationships and Their effect on Subordinates"
Abhijeet Vadera (Second Place) - Department of Business Administration (OB) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Comparing Extrinsic and Intrinsic Processes of Whistle-blowing: A Multi-level, Multi-method Approach"
Subrata Chakrabarty (Second Place) - Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
"Fear of Reporting Bad News: Why Risk and Loss Aversion can Tempt Top Executives to Create Information Asymmetry"
Proposals were evaluated by a committee of COLE Center Scholars (chaired by COLE Scholar Kimberly Wade-Benzoni), who are leading faculty in the fields of leadership and ethics. Center Scholars help advance COLE's research-related agenda for leadership and ethics. The Competition is supported by a grant from the Wachovia Foundation.
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About the COLE Dissertation Proposal Competition:
Now in its third year, the competition is designed for doctoral candidates whose research contributes to the understanding of leadership and ethical issues facing the business community. A key aspect of our center's mission is to galvanize rigorous research in the discipline of leadership, which then informs our education and practitioner initiatives. The Dissertation Competition enables COLE to capture the thinking among the newest generation of scholars, while stimulating ideas about how their research can be applied to the leadership arena.
Learn more about COLE's annual Dissertation Competition
Information about the fourth annual dissertation competition (2010) will be communicated to this group soon.
About COLE:
COLE aims to advance leadership and business ethics through research and education. The center convenes leading scholars and corporate leaders world-wide and strives to influence the way students, academics, corporations, governments and non-profits think about and practice business leadership and ethics in the 21st century. To help forward COLE's research-related agenda for leadership and ethics, the Center has recruited a cadre of faculty (Center Scholars), who represent a diverse number of disciplines, conduct research, and help the center identify the most pressing research topics concerning leadership and ethics. COLE is a collaboration among Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, The Kenan Institute for Ethics and Duke Athletics Department.