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2007 BPS Division Award Winners

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2008 New Faculty Consortium

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2008 BPS Officers & Committees
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - BPS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & OFFICERS

Executive Committee:  Six members will be elected to the BPS Division’s Executive Committee during Spring 2008 elections.  Nominations are being sought from the BPS membership.  To be valid, 10 BPS members in good standing with the Division must sign the nomination.

Assistant Program Chair:  The Assistant Program Chair will also be elected during Spring 2008 voting and we are seeking nominees for this position as well.  Nominees for Assistant Program Chair must have served previously as members of the Executive Committee. See www.bpsdiv.org for a list of previous EC members. Valid nominations require the signatures of 20 members in good standing with the Division.

Nomination Guidelines:  A final set of nominees, drawn from the set of valid nominations, including names put forth by the current Executive Committee, will appear on the Spring 2008 ballot. 

Nominations and signatures must be received by January 14, 2008.  Please send your nominations to:

Prof Anita McGahan
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
105 St George St, #537
Toronto, ON, Canada, M5S 3E6
Phone:  (416) 978-6188
Email:  amcgahan@rotman.utoronto.ca
2008 IRWIN OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD NOMINATIONS

The Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management requests nominations for the BPS Outstanding Educator Award, to be given at next year’s annual meetings in Anaheim. The BPS division has recognized outstanding educators since 1987. In 1991 the publishing company Richard D. Irwin established a $25,000 endowment for the award, thereafter named the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award.
Previous award winners are:

1987: C. Roland Christensen (Harvard)
1989: James Brian Quinn (Dartmouth)
1991: Charles Summer (U. of Washington)
1993: Michael Porter (Harvard)
1995: William H. Newman (Columbia)
1997: David Jemison (University of Texas)
 1999: Arnold Cooper (Purdue)
2001: Michael A. Hitt (Arizona State)
2003: Donald C. Hambrick (Penn State)
2005: Jay Barney (Ohio State)
2007: Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford)

This award is designed to recognize a person who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to and expertise in educating strategy students. This year’s award is given specifically for contributions to teaching students in undergraduate, MBA, or Executive Education programs. While the person may advise Ph.D. students as well, this call for nominations is emphasizing non-Ph.D. focused contributions.  Nominees should have at least 15 years of service. BPS is seeking a diverse pool of nominees from around the globe. 

Some manifestations of outstanding educator contributions might include:

  1. Demonstrated outstanding teaching capabilities over a long period of time.  (For example, the person has demonstrated either breadth or depth in teaching strategy-related topics to Executive Education, MBA, or undergraduate populations; the person has won teaching awards; the person has created strategy-oriented elective courses that are regularly oversubscribed and/or highly rated; the person creates learning environments that promote constructive and interactive class discussions in which students challenge assumptions and share their knowledge and experiences; etc.)
  2. Had an important impact on strategy pedagogy through demonstrated expertise or by developing new and different teaching methods or materials that were subsequently widely adopted by others. (For example, the person has produced high-quality simulations, textbooks, business cases, etc., for strategy courses.)
Nominations will be accepted through November 15, 2007.

Please send your nomination(s) to the following email address (NB: that is the letter “l” and not the number one after the @ sign):

Please include a brief explanation as to why you are nominating the individual.

Many thanks!
The BPS Teaching Committee: Melissa Appleyard, Ilgaz Arikan, Moshe Farjoun, Larry Stimpert

CALL FOR 2008 BPS OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARD SUBMISSIONS

The BPS Division will sponsor the Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research in Business Policy and Strategy again in 2008. Any doctoral dissertation addressing the area of Business Policy and Strategic Management completed between February 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008, and not previously submitted for consideration may be entered. The completion date is defined as when the degree is completed and awarded. A dissertation can be submitted simultaneously to the BPS Division and to other divisions if it fits within each division's domain statement. The BPS domain statement can be found at: www.bpsdiv.org/html/domain_stmt.html. Interested persons should submit their entry electronically.

1)    Please provide the following information in the e-mail:
  • Name:
  • Current Affiliation:
  • Street Address:
  • City, State, Zip Code:
  • Country:
  • E-Mail:
  • Phone:
2)  Please provide the following information about the dissertation:
  • School Attended:
  • Final Defense Date:
  • Date Degree Granted:
  • Chair Person:
  • Committee Members:
 
3)    Please e-mail a ten-page, double-spaced summary of the dissertation. In addition, you may also include a small number of tables within an appendix. Please remove any author identifying information from the summary to facilitate the blind review process. Please send both the e-mail attachment and the information requested above to:

Joseph T. Mahoney
Investors in Business Education Professor of Strategy
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
josephm@uiuc.edu


Submissions must be received by Monday, February 11, 2008. Submissions by fax will not be accepted. Entrants selected in the first round of evaluations will be requested to email a file with the completed dissertation around the middle of March 2008.