Congratulations to our DBA/DM/PhD Alumni and current students who have received new jobs or appointments. We are proud of all the work you do! Check out this list:
- Michael Grieves, DBA (MGT '00) was the recipient of the 2022 Holst Memorial Lecture Award in the Netherlands. You can view Michael’s presentation here.
- Grieves is co-editing a special issue of "Advances in Digital Twins for Manufacturing". He will be looking for papers that are practitioner-scholar focused. Information about submissions for this issue can be found here.
- Karie Willyerd, DM (MGT '03) joins Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG) in the newly created role of chief customer strategy officer.
- Stephen Brand, DM (MGT '04) has recently started as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice in the Entrepreneurship Division at Babson College. He will be teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in entrepreneurship. Additionally, he continues his work as an instructor in MIT’s NSF funded ICorps program helping engineers and scientists turn their research results into business opportunities.
- Ann Kowal Smith, DM (MGT '10) is featured in Forbes as the founder and executive director of Reflection Point.
- Ruth Bernstein, DM (MGT '11) was promoted to Associate Professor and received 2022-2023 Faculty Research Fellowship at Pepperdine University.
- Bill Paolillo, DM (MGT '15) will be working on a Billion dollar Hydrogen Project coming to Ohio. This project is about the circular economy, future of energy, net zero, digital work etc.and the project will also be pursuing participation in the 8 billion dollar Hydrogen Hub grant.
- Victoria Woo, PhD (GRS '15, management) will be starting a new role as Director, INSEAD San Francisco.
- Angela Crawford, PhD (GRS ’16, management) is starting a new position as Chief Marketing Officer & Consulting Partner at Leadership Excelleration.
- Lori Kendall, PhD (GRS '16, management) walks Jim Barnish through the three dimensions of addressing the challenges of early and growth stage companies on the Orchard Black podcast. Listen to the podcast here.
- Kendall has been appointed the Academic Director, Entrepreneurship Programming, for the university’s entrepreneurship minor, the redesign of which is to promote entrepreneurial activity across the university and Academic Director, IT Business Strategist Graduate Certificate Program, which is a new online one-year certificate program she developed, which is aimed towards IT professionals seeking a CIO career path.
- Jess Shoop Evans, PhD (GRS ’17, management) is on the cover of World's Leaders Magazine and was selected as one of the most influential women in technology.
- Evans has been named the next Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Vanderbilt University starting in November. You can read the announcement here.
- Roy Gifford, PhD (GRS ’17, management) has been selected as the VP chief marketing officer at Cleveland State University.
- Jodi Berg, PhD (GRS ’17, management) spoke as part of the City Club of Cleveland line-up. Here is a link to the interview with Jodi.
- Jennifer Nash, PhD (GRS ’18, management) earned her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) certification from the International Coaching Federation in August 2022.
- Jeff Frey, PhD (GRS ’19, management) was named MBA Professor of the Year at the Tommy & Victoria Baker School of Business at the Citadel.
- Ezekiel Bonillas, DBA (MGT ’22) joined the Desert Sun Editorial Board.
- Michael Goulder, DM (MGT ’22) received the ISM Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in August 2022.
- Stephanie Herbst-Lucke, PhD (GRS ’22, management) is listed on Sports Illustrated's list of "College Football’s 25 Most Intriguing People in Suits in 2022.”
- Michael Cauley, PhD student, has been invited to serve a three year term on a new AoM committee: Health Care Management, Practice Committee. He will serve on the committee from 2022-25.
- Pamela Robinson, PhD student, was one of ten winners in the Two-Minute Pitch Your Poster Contest during CWRU Innovation Week. The goal of this fast-paced contest was to engage the audience and explain their research, idea or innovation in two minutes or less and to do it jargon free.
- Robinson's individual paper/policy brief entitled “Kairos for Local Ecological Knowledge: A Pathway Toward Sustainable Agribusiness 2050” was accepted for inclusion in the conference program of Academic Council on the United Nation System (ACUNS) 2022 Annual Meeting which took place in June.
- Carl Watson, PhD student, was the recipient of the best paper award at the doctoral consortium of the Engaged Management Scholarship (EMS) conference 2022.
- Donna Contat, DBA student, was a finalist for the best paper award at the doctoral consortium of the Engaged Management Scholarship (EMS) conference 2022.
(MGT denotes degrees awarded by the Weatherhead School of Management)
(GRS denotes degrees awarded by the School of Graduate Studies)
