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It is my great pleasure to announce this year's finalists in the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition.  We received sixty-five proposals from doctoral students at 51 universities this year.  Eight finalists were chosen based on evaluations by three reviewers.  Thus, the acceptance rate was about twelve percent.  The competition was extremely fierce, with many innovative and high-quality proposals submitted.  The eight individuals below will be presenting their dissertation proposals in October in San Diego, CA to a distinguished panel of judges who will select the winner and runner-up.  If you know any of the finalists, please offer them your heartiest congratulations for this significant accomplishment.  The finalists are:

N. Andrew Cohen

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton

"Bridging the Gap: Managers' External Relationships and Their

Effects on Subordinates' Performance and Work Attitudes"

Jason Greenberg

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Lifeblood or Liability? Schumpeter, Stinchcombe, and

the Double-edged Sword of Strangers in the Startup Process"

Shon Hiatt

Cornell University – ILR School

"The Impact of Institutional Actors as Attention Structures

on Entrepreneurial Activity in the U.S. Biodiesel Industry"

Ana Elisa Iglesias

Georgia State University

"To Forbear or Not To Forbear?  A Behavioral Perspective of Multimarket Competition"

Shimul Melwani

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton

"A Little Bird Told Me...: Emotions, Reputations and Relationships

as Consequences of Workplace Gossip"

Otilia Obodaru

INSEAD

"The Selves We Could Have Been:

Introducing the Construct of Alternative Professional Identity"

Renee Rottner

University of California - Irvine

"The Life of a Project: Accomplishing Legitimacy in Sustained Innovation"

Lori Qingyuan Yue

Columbia University

"Self-governance, Community Structures, and the Survival

of Commercial Banks in Manhattan, 1840-1980"

I would also like to express by sincere thanks and appreciation to the 80 scholars who generously volunteered their time to provide reviews of the candidate proposals. This competition would be nothing without them, and I am grateful to them for their willingness to provide thoughtful and timely feedback. The individuals who reviewed for this year's competition are:

Emily Amanatullah – University of Texas-Austin                  

Caroline Bartel – University of Texas-Austin

Marla Baskerville-Watkins – Northeastern University           

Maura Belliveau – Emory University

Jennifer Berdahl – University of Toronto                              

Y. Sekou Bermiss – University of Texas-Austin

Heather Berry – Wharton                                          

Lyda Bigelow – University of Utah

Emily Block – Notre Dame University                                  

Ethan Burris – University of Texas-Austin

Ben Campbell – Ohio State University                                  

Marlys Christianson – University of Toronto

Lisa Cohen – London Business School                                 

Ben Cole – New York University

Matt Cronin – George Mason University                               

Tina Dacin – Queens University

Robert David – McGill University                                          

Erik Dane – Rice University

Jim Detert – Cornell University                                             

Gina Dokko – University of California – Davis

Lorna Doucet – China Europe Int'l Business School 

Deborah Dougherty – Rutgers University

Glenn Dowell – Cornell University                             

Tracy Dumas – Emory University

Gary Dushnitsky – Wharton                                      

Jamie Eggers – New York University

Aleks Ellis – University of Arizona                             

Heather Elms – American University

Laura Erskine – Illinois State University                                

Alison Fragale – University of North Carolina

Heidi Gardner – Harvard University                          

Giovanni Gavetti – Harvard University

Yan Gong - University of California-Irvine                

Melissa Graebner – University of Texas-Austin

Martine Haas – Wharton                                            

Ben Hallen – University of Maryland

Jared Harris – University of Virginia                          

Ben Herndon – University of Texas-Austin

Jennifer Howard-Grenville – University of Oregon   

Diana Jimeno-Ingrum – Notre Dame University

Sarah Kaplan – Wharton                                           

Riitta Katila – Stanford University

Katherine Kellogg – MIT                                                        

Jay Kim – University of Southern California

Donald Lange – Arizona State University                  

Kyle Lewis – University of Texas-Austin

Michael Lounsbury – University of Alberta               

Muir MacPherson – Georgetown University

Tammy Madsen – Santa Clara University                

Michael Mannor – Notre Dame University

Chris Marquis – Harvard University                          

Paul Martorana – University of Texas-Austin

Justin Miller – New York University                          

Denisa Mindruta – HEC Paris

Yuri Mishina – Michigan State University                              

Celia Moore – London Business School

Jennifer Mueller – Wharton                                       

Gerardo Okhuysen – University of Utah

Susan Perkins – Northwestern University                 

Corey Phelps – University of Washington

Ming Piao – University of Utah                                              

Jo-Ellen Pozner – Univ. of California-Berkeley

Phanish Puranam – London Business School                      

Evan Rawley – Wharton

Chris Rider – Emory University                                             

Scott Sonenshein – Rice University

Taryn Stanko – University of Oregon                                   

Colleen Stuart – University of Toronto

Dara Szyliowicz – University of the Pacific              

Cathy Tinsley – Georgetown University

Freek Vermeulen – London Business School                       

Tim Vogus – Vanderbilt University

Jim Wade – Georgetown University                         

Klaus Weber – Northwestern University

Karl Wennberg – Stockholm School of Economics  

Jennifer Whitson – University of Texas-Austin

Charlie Williams – Duke University                           

Amy Wrzesniewski – Yale University

Brian Wu – University of Michigan                            

Minyuan Zhao – University of Michigan

Joe Broschak

2009 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Competition Chair

Joseph P. Broschak

Associate Professor

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

Department of Management & Organizations

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