Winner of the 2010 OS/INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition
It is my pleasure to announce the results of this year’s Organization
Science/INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition. From a pool of 64
proposals, eight finalists were chosen from the pool of innovative and high
quality proposals based on the evaluations of three reviewers in a double
blind review process. This past weekend the eight finalists presented
their dissertation proposals to a distinguished panel of judges at the
INFORMS Annual Conference in Austin, TX. All of the finalists did an
outstanding job of presenting their proposals.
The winner of the 2010 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition is:
Jennifer Petriglieri
INSEAD
“Under Threat: Responses to and consequences of threat to individual’s work
identities”
The runner-up is:
Mary Kate Stimmler
UC Berkeley – MORS
“Comfort in Numbers: How Risk Management and Risk Measurement
Bound Attention and Increase Risk Taking”
If you know Jennifer or Mary Kate, or any of the other six finalists,
please congratulate them for this significant accomplishment. The other
six finalists for the 2010 competition, listed in alphabetical order, were:
Adam Cobb
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
“From the 'Treaty of Detroit' to the 401(k): The Development, Evolution
and Consequences of Privatized Welfare in the United States”
Flannery Garnett
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
“Community Matters: Uncovering the societal mechanisms undergirding
workplace discrimination and inequality”
Amol Joshi
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business
School
“Entrepreneurial Discovery and Information Complexity in Knowledge-Intensive
Industries”
Tomasz Obloj
INSEAD
“Incentive Life-Cycles. Learning and the Division of Value within Firms”
Erin Reid
Harvard Business School and Harvard University
“How Real is the Ideal Worker? Understanding the Sources and Consequences
of Men’s Professional Identities”
Adina Sterling
Emory University
“Who You Know: Pre-entry Contacts and Post-entry Social Structure”
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the panel of judges who
evaluated all of the proposals. Each judge generously volunteered his or
her time and resources to attend the day-long competition in Austin and
provide the finalists with feedback on their dissertations. This year’s
panel of judges was:
Martine Haas (University of Pennsylvania)
Jared Harris (University of Virginia)
George Huber (University of Texas, Austin)
Gerry Sanders (Rice University)
Harry Sapienza (University of Minnesota)
Ann Terlaak (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Elizabeth Umphress (Texas A&M University)
Minyuan Zhao (University of Michigan)
Finally, I would like to offer my thanks the 117 reviewers who volunteered
their time in helping select the 8 finalists, and I would especially like
to thank Dan Levinthal, Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, and Amy
McClellan, Managing Editor of Organization Science, for the tremendous
amount of help and support they provided in managing the proposal review
process.
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Organization
University of Minnesota
2010 INFORMS / Organization Science Dissertation Competition Chair