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TIM Academy Events 2025

The Technology and Innovation Management Division (TIM) invites you to our events at the 2025 AOM in Copenhagen. The division enables junior and senior scholars to connect, collaborate on research, and expand their networks. Link to the Programme (coming soon).

TIM Distinguished Scholar 2025

Since 1996, the Technology & Innovation Management Division has been presenting the Distinguished Scholar Award to scholars whose contributions have been central to the intellectual development of the field. As individuals, each recipient embodies a career of scholarly achievement and has had a significant impact on TIM scholarship. Join the TIM Division to hear from Professor Kwaku Atuahene-Gima (Nobel International Business School). Add the event to your schedule.

TIM Panel 2025

Our TIM Panel 2025 on"Universities and Innovation: Evolving Roles in Uncertain Times" will debate how universities contribute to economic development and why open inquiry and intellectual risk-taking are key to innovation. The panel will feature a stellar group of experts: Janet Bercovitz (University of Colorado), Mickael Bikard (INSEAD), Jerry Davis (University of Michigan), and Adam Jaffe (Brandeis University). Keld Laursen (Copenhagen Business School), former chair of our TIM Division, will moderate the panel. Link to the event.

TIM Lifetime Award 2024

The Academy of Management’s Technology & Innovation Management (TIM) division was pleased to present Professor Paula Stephan with a lifetime achievement award in recognition of her many intellectual contributions to the study of technological innovation, her extraordinary record of mentorship and equally impressive record of institution building. Watch the video.

TIM Emerging Scholar Award 2025

Please join us in congratulating this year's recipient of the TIM Emerging Scholar Award: Professor Maria Roche, Harvard Business School. Dr. Roche will tell us more about her work and her path at this year's annual Academy of Management conference.


We thank our 2025 sponsors for their support in making our events possible.

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Academy of Management 2024

2024 TIM Panel Recording 🎙️

TIM Plenary 2024: Join us as Aija Leiponen (Cornell), Karim Lakhani (Harvard), Kevin Boudreau (Northeastern), and Lynn Wu (Wharton) share diverse perspectives on AI’s impact on science and innovation. You can listen to the recording right here.

2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar Recording 📽️

TIM Distinguished Scholar Luncheon: Watch insights from Professor Daniel Levinthal (Wharton School) as he delivers an inspiring keynote on pioneering research and innovation at the Distinguished Scholar luncheon. Here is a link to the video recording.

2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar

The TIM Division is proud to present the 2024 TIM Distinguished Scholar, Professor Daniel Levinthal, Wharton School. Congratulations, and see you at the Academy to celebrate this award with us.

2024 TIM Emerging Scholar

This session highlighted the work of the 2024 TIM Emerging Scholar Award winner, Assistant Professor Callen Anthony, NYU. Congratulations to this achievement!

Announcements List

  • STR Named Awards: (Amended) Call for Pre-Proposals

    The Strategic Management (STR) Division requests expressions of interest for the sponsorship of awards named in honor of prominent academics who contributed significantly to the field of strategic management and are no longer active (e.g., retired or deceased). Several annual STR Division awards are available to be named, including the STR Outstanding Educator Award (which honors outstanding Ph.D. and MBA/ Executive educators in alternate years), the STR Best Dissertation Award, and the STR Emerging Scholar Award. Each award is expected to carry an honoree’s name for a period of ten to fifteen years, and a sponsorship amount of $30,000 to $50,000 is suggested (the STR division leadership maintains an open channel to discuss alternative amounts and durations for the right honoree). These awards were previously sponsored by publishing houses (except in the case of the Emerging Scholar Award), but the sponsorship agreements have now expired, and the Division leadership believes that awards named after appropriate strategic management scholars would be a better alternative.

    Financial contributions towards such an award may come from multiple sources, such as colleagues, students and the former institution(s) of the honoree. Because the Academy of Management (AOM) does not accept donations from individuals, these financial contributions will need to be collected by the honoree’s former institution and transferred to AOM as a single gift/ donation. The sponsorship funds will help provide finances for annual expenses related to the award and support important STR division outreach activities to strengthen the field, engage and develop doctoral students and junior scholars, and expand globally to serve more disadvantaged and disconnected members of our field.

    At this time, we are requesting pre-proposals or expressions of interest for each award, which should include the following:

    1.             The name of the proposed honoree, and a brief description (100 words) of why the individual is an appropriate honoree for the award, including their contributions to the strategic management field and/or the STR Division (formerly BPS Division).

    2.             Please list other awards or recognitions that are named after the nominated individual, whether in the field (at an academic association, journal, etc.), at their associated academic institutions, or more broadly in society.

    3.             The names and contact details of at least two (and no more than four) individuals who will lead the effort to collect the funds in a timely manner (within one year).

    4.             A commitment from the honoree’s (former) institution to accept funds from various sources (in addition to contributing their own, as appropriate), keeping records, and transferring the collected funds to AOM.

    5.             (Optional) Expressions of financial commitment from individuals and/or institutions to contribute towards the award in the honoree’s name.

    All submitted pre-proposals will be evaluated in confidence. After a positive decision is communicated, the individuals leading the effort and the institution accepting funds on the honoree’s behalf will have a period of one year to complete their efforts and transfer the funds to AOM. The deadline for submitting pre-proposals is July 15th. Please email the pre-proposal (or any prior queries) to the STR Division Chair (Deepak Somaya, dsomayaaom@gmail.com) and STR Division Treasurer (Paul Drnevich, pldrnevich@ua.edu).

  • 2025 Academy of Management OB Division Career Award Winners

    2025 Academy of Management OB Division Career Award Winners

    The Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division has recognized five distinguished scholars with its 2025 Career Awards, celebrating exceptional contributions that embody the division's core values of Rigor, Relationships, and Relevance.

    John Mathieu: Lifetime Achievement Award


    John E. Mathieu, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut, has earned the Lifetime Achievement Award for over three decades of transformative contributions to organizational behavior and team research. His work exemplifies sustained excellence that has fundamentally shaped how we understand teams and organizational effectiveness.

    Professor Mathieu is the recipient of the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups, acknowledging his enduring commitment to advancing the interdisciplinary science of team behavior and dynamics. He was also honored with the Academy of Management's Research Methods Division Distinguished Career Award, recognizing his high-quality research and methodological expertise. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Management.

    Professor Mathieu's career is not only distinguished by the scientific quality and methodological rigor of his work, but he also practices engaged scholarship with several Fortune 500 companies, the Armed Services (Army, Navy, and Air Force), federal and state agencies (NRC, NASA, FAA, DOT), and numerous public and private organizations. His research has involved thousands of employees from 61 companies across 13 different cities in the U.S.

    Sim Sitkin: Mentorship Award


    Sim B. Sitkin, Michael W. Krzyzewski University Professor of Leadership at Duke University, receives the Mentorship Award for his exceptional career-long commitment to developing organizational behavior scholars through intellectual,  social, , and moral support.

    Professor Sim Sitkin has a rich portfolio of mentoring experience, serving as the dissertation chair for at least 14 doctoral students and serving on over 30 other dissertation committees. Letters from his mentees create a consistent picture of Sim as a generous and thoughtful mentor, not only with his own doctoral students but also with other students, postdocs, colleagues, and more. They speak of how he simultaneously encouraged students’ intellectual development and developed meaningful personal connections with each mentee. He invests extraordinary intellectual capital in developing independent thinkers through deep theory building, meticulous feedback, and long-term collaboration. His influence spans decades and continents, with countless mentees testifying to his integrity, generosity, and unwavering dedication to their growth. His legacy is a global community of scholars shaped by his wisdom, generosity, and unwavering commitment.

    His impact extends far beyond individual mentoring relationships. As founding director of multiple centers including the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics and the Behavioral Science and Policy Center, Professor Sitkin has created lasting infrastructure for mentoring future scholars. His co-founding of the Behavioral Science & Policy Association specifically bridges the gap between research and practice, creating mentoring opportunities for scholars to translate their work into policy applications.

    Jackson Lu: Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award


    Jackson G. Lu, Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor at MIT, is the receipient of the 2025 Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award. He exemplifies early-career excellence through groundbreaking research that has fundamentally challenged conventional understanding of workplace diversity and organizational behavior. Professor Lu's research on the "Bamboo Ceiling" has revolutionized understanding of Asian American workplace experiences. His work has revealed why East Asians face leadership underrepresentation despite educational success, identifying cultural assertiveness rather than discrimination as the primary mechanism. This work has been featured in over 300 media outlets including BBC, The Economist, and New York Times, demonstrating exceptional translation of academic insights to public discourse.

    Professor  Lu’s work was characterized by the committee as rigorous, highly impactful, well-rounded and multidisciplinary, crossing wider topics of organizational behavior with culture and diversity. He has published extensively in our top journals and is the lead author on most of the articles, showing great thought leadership. His work puts communities to the forefront, highlighting their challenges and thereby adds impact to organizational behavior research and his research has received high levels of media cover in the past. He has been very active in helping the profession, for example as senior editor at Organization Science. In the words of the committee “If we are wanting to reward academics who excel in research, teaching, and service—then Jackson exemplifies this and then some. He is an excellent representative of our field.”

    Herman Aguinis: Societal Impact Award


    Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University, receives the Societal Impact Award for his exceptional ability to translate rigorous academic research into practical applications that benefit organizations and society worldwide.

    Professor Aguinis exemplifies global scholarly impact, ranking among the world's top 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business according to Web of Science since 2018, with over 65,000 Google Scholar citations. His research in performance management, corporate social responsibility, and diversity has been implemented across six continents, affecting millions of employees through evidence-based organizational practices.

    His policy influence extends to the highest levels, including expert testimony in the Ricci v. DeStefano U.S. Supreme Court case and five-year service on the Board of Examiners for the United States Foreign Service. As President of the Academy of Management and consultant to organizations including the United Nations, AT&T, and Accenture, Professor Aguinis has consistently bridged academia and practice.

    Ronit Kark: Societal Impact Award


    Professor Ronit Kark, Bar-Ilan University,  Exeter School of Business and Technical University of Munich receives the Societal Impact Award for her multifaceted contributions to gender and leadership research, her engagement in educational initiatives and social activism, and her unwavering commitment to advancing gender equality and fostering inclusive leadership practices.

    Beyond academia, Prof. Kark actively engages in social activism and consultancy projects to advance women's leadership. She is also involved in the strategic developed of training programs for NGOs and serves voluntarily on advisory committees and boards of many different organizations that are leading social change (‘We Power’, to promote women to politics; ‘Studio of Her Own’ for women artists, The Abraham Fund for Jewish-Arab Co-existence’, to promote employment of Arab women; Breaking the Glass Ceiling and Engineering the Future, to promote educational systems to foster girls’ involvement in STEM and engineering; and the Committee for Gender Equity of the Olympic Sports Association, to promote women’s involvement in sports).

    These five exceptional scholars represent the diverse ways organizational behavior research can achieve excellence while serving society. From Professor Mathieu's foundational theoretical contributions and Professor Sitkin's mentoring legacy to Professor Lu's innovative early-career achievements and the practical societal impact of Professor Aguinis and Professor Kark's work, each recipient demonstrates how rigorous research, meaningful relationships, and societal relevance can combine to advance both the academic field and human welfare. Their recognition by the Academy of Management OB Division celebrates not just individual achievement, but the collective power of organizational behavior scholarship to create positive change in organizations and society.

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