CHRISTINE BECKMAN’s paper, “The Social Innovation Trap: Critical Insights into an Emerging Field” published last summer in the Academy of Management Annals 17, earned the 2024 Award for Best Paper in Geography and Entrepreneurship by the American Association of Geographers.
NAN JIA was awarded a Strategy Research Foundation (SRF) grant from the Strategic Management Society for her upcoming research on “The AI Impact on Corporate Strategies: Transforming Skill Returns and Business Scope.” She also had a paper accepted by the Strategic Management Journal titled, “Introducing Machine-Learning-Based Data Fusion Methods for Analyzing Multimodal Data: An Application of Measuring Trustworthiness of Microenterprises.”
NAN JIA, CHERYL J. WAKSLAK, and Yidan Yin (postdoctoral researcher) had their paper accepted by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Titled “Can You Feel Heard by AI? On the Experience of Receiving AI Empathy,” the paper underscores the potential and limitations of AI in meeting human psychological needs.
JINO LU, PhD, co-advised by MILAN MIRIC (DSO), successfully defended his PhD thesis. Lu will be an incoming assistant professor at the Olin Business School at Washington University in Saint Louis.