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Dear Colleagues, If you're heading to AOM in Philadelphia, consider arriving a day early for the inaugural Fox Case Conference 2026, hosted by the Translational Research Center at Temple University's Fox School of Business in collaboration with Ivey Publishing. The Fox School ranks #33 on the Case Center Impact Index, which measures the global reach and impact of an institution's case writing (https://www.thecasecentre.org/impactIndex/2025/default). Taking place Thursday, July 30, 2026 at the Fox School campus, one day before the AOM Annual Meeting opens, this full-day, hands-on workshop is a natural complement to your AOM week. The program ...

Marco van Gelderen Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam What is your current role and institution, and what courses do you teach? I am Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit (Free University) Amsterdam. I teach courses in which participants practice enterprising competencies. At the moment, I am also developing online modules for first-year undergraduate business students on awareness, self-awareness, and other-awareness. Another role is that of action editor, together with Andrew Corbett of Babson College, of the learning innovation section of the journal Entrepreneurship Education & Pedagogy. How did you ...

Jian Han China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) What is your current role and institution, and what courses do you teach? I am a Professor of Management at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), where I teach in the Executive MBA and executive education programs. My teaching and research focus on strategic human resource management, organizational behavior, and organizational transformation. In recent years, I have taught courses and modules on Strategic HRM, Business Strategy and Behavioral Reflection, Leadership and Organizational Change, and Talent Management in ...

2026 INFORMS/Organization Science Best Dissertation Proposal Competition Call for Submissions Submission Deadline: June 20, 2026 We invite you to submit your dissertation proposal to the INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. Now in its 34 th year, this competition is one of the most prestigious available to doctoral students studying organizations. Eight finalists will be chosen, based on reviews by experienced referees. Finalists will present their dissertation proposals in a workshop on Saturday, October 31, 2026, at the INFORMS Annual Meeting held in San Francisco, CA . During the workshop, finalists will ...

(posted on behalf of @Sergio Rodriguez-Garnica ) For many PhD students starting to teach, AI can feel like a bit of a headache. Here’s how I’ve been approaching it (just in case it gives you some ideas). In individual assessments (like exams), limiting AI makes sense. You want to be sure students are building the fundamentals themselves. But once they’re working on assignments, projects, or presentations at home, that approach becomes harder to enforce. Realistically, they will use it anyway. In those stages, AI can actually be useful. When students are working on assignments, I try to encourage them to use AI as a kind of sparring ...

(posted on behalf of @Paul Sanchez-Ruiz ) In recent conversations with practitioners, three themes have surfaced with increasing consistency. These are not new ideas, but they are being experienced in ways that suggest a gap between how entrepreneurship research is often discussed and how entrepreneurship is practiced. A first concerns freedom. Entrepreneurship is frequently associated with autonomy (and even liberation) and the ability to pursue meaningful work. In practice, however, freedom is described less as independence and more as responsibility. Founders emphasize obligations—to employees, customers, and partners—that accumulate as the venture ...

BOOK REVIEW Do More in Four: Why It's Time for a Shorter Workweek , by Joe O'Connor and Jared Lindzon, Harvard Business Review Press, 13 January 2026, 240 Pages, $32.00 (Hardcover), ISBN 9798892791458 It begins not with a manifesto about leisure, but with a small, almost banal observation repeated across workplaces that experimented with a four-day week: nothing collapsed. Clients did not revolt. Deadlines did not implode. Meetings did not suddenly become sacred. Instead, people worked differently. They cut what never mattered, delayed what never should have been urgent, and protected the few hours where thinking actually happened. ...

BOOK REVIEW Augmented: life and death as a cyborg , by Candi K. Cann, The MIT Press, 10 March 2026, 228 Pages, $24.95 (Paperback), ISBN 9780262051118, DOI https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15315.001.0001 Augmented: Life and Death as a Cyborg unfolds not as a manifesto for technological transcendence, but as a calm insistence that the future has already arrived in mundane, bodily ways. Rather than beginning with speculative fantasy or Silicon Valley futurism, the book starts at the ear, the heart, the eye, the joint. It starts with the author’s own body, shaped by hearing loss and medical devices, and from there builds a meditation ...

The interplay between government and industry in the Space Economy (SE) creates a compelling context for research and practice in the Management Consulting (MC) Division. As public–private partnerships, technological change, and regulatory adaptation reshape the sector, the SE offers a rich setting for understanding how complex industries emerge and evolve over time. For MC scholars and practitioners, the SE highlights the importance of combining variance research and process research . Variance approaches help identify structural patterns , resource dependencies , and predictive relationships in ...

The Space Economy (SE) is increasingly intertwined with collective security , making it a timely and theoretically rich context for the Conflict Management (CM) Division. As strategic competition extends into orbit, space is becoming a domain where actors must pursue national and commercial objectives while managing escalation risks in an environment marked by high interdependence , limited transparency , and uncertain attribution . For CM scholars, the SE raises core questions about how parties balance assertiveness and cooperativeness to secure interests without triggering destabilizing spirals. It ...

The Space Economy (SE) is catalyzing a new wave of digital transformation , making it a compelling context for advancing research in the CTO Division . As firms increasingly rely on space-derived data and services for business intelligence and operational decision-making, the SE is becoming an important setting for examining how technology-enabled capabilities generate competitive advantage. For CTO scholars, the SE offers a timely empirical context for studying how organizations build and reconfigure capabilities across people , process , and technology . This includes questions of upskilling , governance ...

The Space Economy (SE) offers a compelling context for advancing research and teaching in Management Education and Development (MED) . Near-future challenges such as space tourism , Mars habitats , orbital logistics , and asteroid mining create rich opportunities for students to engage in creativity , systems thinking , and long-term strategy . For MED scholars, the SE is especially valuable because it sits at the intersection of multiple domains: advanced STEM , business strategy , international policy , ethics , environmental sustainability , and digital transformation . This ...

The Space Economy (SE) offers an unusually strong empirical setting for advancing research in Organization Development and Change (ODC) . It concentrates large-scale transformation under extreme constraints : high reliability and safety demands , long time horizons , capital intensity , and tight interdependence across public agencies, primes, startups, and research universities. For ODC scholars, this makes the SE a powerful context for examining how organizations initiate , legitimize , implement , and sustain change when technologies, governance arrangements, and stakeholder values are ...

The Space Economy (SE) is an inherently international domain, making it a compelling context for advancing research in International Management (IM) . Missions, infrastructures, and value chains span jurisdictions , cultures , and regulatory regimes , while strategic rivalry coexists with sustained cross-border collaboration . For IM scholars, the SE offers a high-salience setting to explore core questions under unusually sharp boundary conditions. As commercialization accelerates, private actors and multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly shaping how space-based capabilities are financed, governed, ...