Join us in celebrating some amazing achievements of our faculty. Read the list of faculty accolades.
The Doctoral Teaching & Mentoring Award recognizes a professor(s) who exemplifies excellence in teaching and mentoring selected by PhD and DM/DBA students. This year’s recipients are Estelle Elena Archibold, (GRS ’23) adjunct professor, Doctor of Management and Interdisciplinary Studies, and Kalle Lyytinen, Distinguished University Professor; faculty director, Doctor of Business Administration program; and chair and professor, Department of Design & Innovation.
Richard Boyatzis, Distinguished University Professor; H. Clark Ford Professor; and professor of organizational behavior, talked to WKYC about the dangers of legalized sports betting in Ohio. Read the full article here.
Boyatzis published an article in Smart Business titled, "Lack of Employee Motivation Rooted in Poor Executive Management Styles."
Philip Cola, PhD (GRS ’15, management), Winkle Healthcare Management Professorship; associate professor, Department of Design & Innovation; assistant professor of Medicine; and director of Healthcare Management Programs, attended a Conference for the Society of Research Administrators International in Las Vegas, Nevada in November, 2022. He gave a talk on 1) “Shaping the Formation of International and Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations: Lessons from a South-North Partnership”; and 2) “Innovative Ways to Conduct Clinical Research in a Pandemic World.”
Cola, Myung A Lee, Karu Jayathilake, Herbert Y Meltzer, published "Long-Term Outcome of Clozapine in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia," in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology with colleagues from Vanderbilt University and Northwestern University. The research is a 15-year outcome study of using an atypical antipsychotic medication to treat what was once thought to be treatment-resistant schizophrenia.
Cola and Tim Fogarty, Andrew D. Braden Professorship in Accounting and Auditing; and professor of accountancy, together with alumnus Robert Warren (MGT ’19), published “Mission Creep from within at the IRS: Why Criminal Investigation Special Agents Will Not Shrink the Tax Gap” in the Journal of Tax Administration.
David Cooperrider, Distinguished University Professor; Covia-David L. Cooperrider Professorship in Appreciative Inquiry; and professor, Department of Organizational Behavior, has been awarded one of the highest honors in his field, the 2023 OD Network Award for Elevating Humanity by the Organization Development Network. The award is given to scholars who lead large-scale change movements that transform trans-organizational and geopolitical systems for the sake of raising urgent attention to humanitarian crises, the call to climate action and building a nature-positive economy, and propelling practical solutions, while having a measurable impact and a widespread following. Read what Cooperrider said about the award.
Cooperrider wrote an article with alumna Lindsey Godwin (GRS ’08, organizational behavior) that recently earned an accolade. Titled “Our Earthshot Moment: Net Positive OD for the Creation of a World of Full Spectrum Flourishing,” the article was chosen for Organization Development Network’s 2023 Outstanding Article of the Year award.
This award annually recognizes an outstanding, substantive, research-grounded article published in OD Review, an academic journal that brings together scholarly and practitioner perspectives to foster greater understanding, improved practice, new research and innovations for critical issues in the organizational development field. Read more about the honor.
Fogarty offered advice to those trying to find a personal loan with less-than-good credit on WalletHub. “Relatives and friends should be a good option,” he said. “They should know the debtor better than any score captures. If you have to borrow from somebody else, the task is to convince them that the past does not indicate the future. Whereas the mistakes that produced the bad credit score cannot be erased, the circumstances behind them (like insufficient income or non-recurring commitments) may be different.
Michael Goulder (MGT ’22), faculty director, Master of Supply Chain Management; and assistant professor, Department of Operations, weighed in to Cleveland.com on supply chain disruptions that have made finding essential household items and holiday staples challenging this season.
Goulder is cautious about AI’s immediate impacts but there are reasons to be excited about the technology’s future. Read the full article here.
Goulder outlines the possibilities of an AI-assisted supply chain on Freshwater Cleveland. “There is a vast overestimation of the speed at which these technologies will be perfected and commercialized,” Goulder said. “It took 10-plus years for the Internet to mature, and likewise it will take longer than people think for AI to mature.”
Goulder shared insights gained about global supply chains through the COVID-19 pandemic at the online event "What the COVID-19 Pandemic Taught us About Global Supply Chains."
Chris Laszlo, professor, Department of Organizational Behavior, whose book Quantum Leadership was listed by DesignThinkers Academy as one of their summer book club recommendations.
Tapani Rinta-Kahila, Esko Penttinen, and Lyytinen published a research article Getting Trapped in Technical Debt: Sociotechnical Analysis of a Legacy System’s Replacement in MIS Quarterly.
Satish Nambisan, The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professorship of Technology Management; and professor, Department of Design & Innovation, has been named to the list of Highly Cited Researchers for cross-field impact by Clarivate. This distinction places Nambisan among an elite group of researchers, who are being recognized for publishing multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science in the last decade (2011-21). This year, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world's researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this distinction.
A review of Nambisan’s new book, The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business, was published in the Journal of International Business Studies. Axiom selected The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business, co-written by Nambisan, for one of its 2023 Best Business Book Awards. Read the full article here.
Nambisan shared his views on navigating markets when the world is digitally connected but geopolitically fragmented in the latest issue of Case Western Reserve's Think magazine.
Roman Sheremeta, associate professor, Department of Economics, reflects as Russia invasion passes one-year anniversary. Read the full article here.
Jagdip Singh, AT&T Professor of Marketing; professor, Department of Design & Innovation; and co-director of the Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence program, discussed customer services issues with banks—and the headaches that follow. "Customers don't want you to spend some time on it," Singh said. "They just want you to solve my problem, get me to where I need to go." Read the full article here.
Youngjin Yoo, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty; Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professorship in Entrepreneurship; and professor, Department of Design & Innovation, was mentioned in an EurekAlert! article that discusses a research study he co-authored on digitalization.
Yoo waded into the debate over How ChatGPT is Shaking up the Classroom in Northeast Ohio—the artificial intelligence-generated language app—might be changing education at all levels.
Yoo commented on a Cleveland startup embracing technology to buy, sell and move steel on ideastream.
Yoo together with Case School of Engineering Erman Ayday, and Natalie Smolenski, recently published "Designing a Responsible Universal Learning and Employment Record Ecosystem," sponsored by Walmart. In this paper, they discuss the need for a LER ecosystem that is distributed, interoperable and open, allowing individuals to collect, store, own and share self-verifying credentials that are issued and accepted by participating organizations. Read more about the report here.
