Decemer 2025

HCM Division Newsletter – December 2025

  1. Holiday Greetings
  2. Call for Submissions for 2026 AOM Annual Meeting
  3. Call for Nominations:
    1. Keith G. Provan Distinguished Scholar Award
    2. AOM HCM Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Early Career Educator Awards
  4. Reminder to Renew or Activate Your AOM Membership


A note from the HCM Division Chair

Greetings for the Forthcoming Holiday Season


With the end of term around the corner, holidays of all sorts on their way, a New Year on the horizon… no doubt everyone has lots of last-minute plan and to-do lists to take care. A gentle reminder for your HCM to-do list….your submission for our Philadelphia conference is due January 13th. Daan Westra is organizing our PDWs and Emerging Scholar Consortium and Ingrid Nembhard is curating our scholarly program and both are looking forward to your submissions and welcome any questions from you. It's not too early to start thinking about nominees for our prestigious Annual HCM awards. This year, give the gift of an award nomination to a colleague who has made a difference in the work they do. We will be seeking nominees for many awards and I include the Committee Chairs if you would like nomination information or have questions:

  • Early & Mid-Career Teaching awards - Chairs Seongwon Choi & Matthew DePuccio
  • Early & Mid-Career Research achievement awards – Chair Daniel Walker
  • The Fottler Exceptional Service award – Division Chair-Elect Amber Stephenson
  • The Provan Distinguished Scholar award - Division Chair-Elect Amber Stephenson

A reminder to our HCM student scholars, for your conference submissions, ensure to self-select your student status for your nomination and consideration for these awards:

  • Best Student Paper
  • Outstanding paper based on a Dissertation

As you work your way through to the holiday break this year, I encourage you to plan for restful time for yourself, a wonderful time with your family, and, if you can, the gift of volunteer time to your community.


Thank you all for you dedication to our profession, thank you to our HCM Executive team for the gracious gift of your volunteer time, and to all, please enjoy your winter break.


Deirdre McCaughey - HCM Chair

2. Call for Submissions

The Health Care Management (HCM) Division welcomes you to submit your papers, symposia proposals, and posters for consideration for the 86th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management to be held in Philadelphia, PA, USA, from 31 July to 4 August 2026.


The HCM Division invites submissions that align with its focus on advancing understanding of the role of professionals and organizations in providing health care across the globe. It is the Division that addresses all facets of management in the health and health care sector. Some of the topics explored within the Division include the experiences and performance of healthcare workers and organizations; health care finance and marketing; strategy and operational decision-making within the health care ecosystem; public policy issues (e.g., access to care, competition, cost control and quality of care); and comparisons of health systems across countries. The HCM Division invites submissions that address other topics and prides itself on empirical and conceptual application of theory to the study of healthcare organizations.


All submissions to the HCM Division must comply with AOM submission guidelines and formatting instructions, and be made through the AOM Submission Center. If any guidelines and formatting instructions are not met, the submission will not be reviewed. Please carefully review the guidelines as well as the Additional Instructions and Considerations noted below.


The Submission Center will open in early December 2025. The submission deadline is Tuesday, 13 January 2026 at 17:00 (5 pm) EST (UTC-5 / GMT-5). Earlier submissions are encouraged. If you have questions about submission of papers, symposia proposals, or posters to the HCM Division, please contact the HCM Division’s Program Chair, Ingrid Nembhard.


Additional instructions and considerations can be found here.


Division Awards

The HCM Division presents the following awards at the Annual Meeting, based on award committee review of eligible papers:

  • Best Health Care Management Paper
  • Best Health Care Management Theory-to-Practice Paper
  • Best International Paper
  • Best Student-Led Paper Award
  • Outstanding Paper Based on a Dissertation.


**Please identify your paper as award eligible at the time of submission if you wish your work to be considered for one of these awards. Papers may also be identified as eligible during the paper review process.


Division Reviewer: Please volunteer

We need your help! Our scholarly program is entirely dependent on the generous contributions of reviewers like you. Please help the division by signing up as an HCM Reviewer. We welcome you as a reviewer whether you are a new or long-standing AOM Annual Meeting attendee.


What’s in it for you? That’s easy! Reviewing…

  • gives you an opportunity to be involved in the Academy's program planning process,
  • is a way to learn about new and interesting work in your field,
  • is an opportunity to add a line to your CV, and
  • is an easy and much appreciated way to give back to your professional community.

You can sign up and access AOM Reviewer Guidelines for additional information. The 2026 review period is 22 January 2026 to 12 February 2026, so please plan accordingly.


When you sign up, you will be asked to select keywords/subject areas for each division or interest group you select. These are really important! Keywords will be used to assign papers and symposia that most closely match your interests and expertise. Select as many keywords as you can to ensure that the system is able to make the match.

The HCM Division looks forward to your participation in our program as scholarly contributor and reviewer!

Ingrid Nembhard - Program Chair


3. Call for Nominations

  • Keith G. Provan Distinguished Scholar Award

The Research Committee seeks nominations for the Keith G. Provan Distinguished Scholar Award. This award recognizes a member of the HCM division who has developed a record of high-quality scholarly research in health care management. The research may be traditional or innovative, but it must demonstrate conceptual and methodological rigor.


The award winner will receive a plaque and recognition at the AOM Annual Meeting. The winner will also give a keynote presentation during the AOM Annual Meeting as part of the Health Care Management Division’s programming.


This award was established in 2012, and renamed in 2014 to honor the late Keith G. Provan, in recognition of his exemplary scholarship and numerous contributions to the Health Care Management Division.


More information and nomination instructions can be found here, and nominations should be submitted to Chair of the Research Committee, Daniel Walker (daniel.walker@osumc.edu) by January 31, 2026.

  • AOM HCM Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Early Career Educator Awards


The HCM Teaching Committee is seeking nominations for this year's HCM Excellence in Teaching Award and the HCM Outstanding Early Career Educator Award. Please consider nominating a colleague or submitting a self-nomination for this honor.

Required Materials:

To submit your nomination for either award, please send an email to hcm.teachingaward@gmail.com by February 13, 2026 with the following information:

  • Your name and institution/program;
  • The name, position, institutional affiliation, and email address of the individual you wish to nominate

Description of Awards:

1) Excellence in Teaching Award

The AOM Health Care Management Division's Excellence in Teaching Award, which was established in 2005, recognizes innovative and outstanding teaching that takes place in our classrooms and provides the opportunity to encourage, recognize, and reward the work of excellent, dedicated, and inspiring teachers. Nominations are sought from the both division membership and broader healthcare management/healthcare administration community. Each nominee must be a University level academic staff, tenured or on full-time contract, and must have been employed in a teaching position for at least six years within higher education.


For the 2026 AOM HCM Excellence in Teaching Award, please submit a single PDF containing the following:

  • A one-page cover letter regarding the reason for your nomination.
  • A recent CV of the nominee
  • Evidence of the nominees contributions to teaching methods, courses, or innovative materials that generate student learning (e.g., de-identified student evaluations, unsolicited feedback from students or learners regarding the nominee’s impact on teaching and/or pedagogy)
  • The contact information of 2-3 individuals, with one being from a former or current student of the nominee, who could provide a brief letter of recommendation.

2) Outstanding Early Career Educator Award 

The AOM Health Care Management Division's Outstanding Early Career Educator Award was established in 2024, to recognize outstanding emerging educators in the field. The award encourages, recognizes, and rewards the work of inspiring early career educators. Nominations are sought from the both division membership and broader healthcare management/healthcare administration community. Each nominee must be a University level academic staff, tenured or on full-time contract, and must have been employed in a teaching position for at least three years but no more than 5 years within higher education.

Award Review and Selection Process:

All nomination packets received by February 13, 2026 will be shared with and evaluated by two separate award sub-committees consisting of members from the AOM HCM Division Teaching Committee. Nominees considered by each of the award sub-committees to be strong candidates will be subsequently contacted, if necessary, to provide further documentation or evidence to support their nomination. Nominees will be assessed on the basis of their success in developing effective teaching methods, courses, and/or teaching materials that generate student learning, critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, and/or research as explained in the award descriptions linked above. The sub-committees will also consider the quality of the letters of recommendation when evaluating applicants. The individuals selected for each award by the sub-committees will be notified in advance, and the Award will be presented at the 2026 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.


Please contact Matthew DePuccio (Matthew_J_DePuccio@rush.edu) or Seongwon Choi (schoi61@calstatela.edu) if you have any questions or need additional information. Again, to submit a nomination, please send your nomination to hcm.teachingaward@gmail.com by February 13, 2026.

Thank you for your consideration!

Seongwon Choi and Matthew DePuccio - Teaching Committee Co-Chairs


4. Reminder to Renew or Activate Your AOM Membership


Please activate or renew your Academy of Management (AOM) memberships. Be sure to keep your membership active and to select Health Care Management (HCM) as one of your division interest group (DIGs). AOM membership includes 2 DIGs and additional DIGs are available for a modest price. Our ability to have great HCM experiences during conference is driven by your membership!


Geoffrey Silvera - Chair of the Membership Engagement Committee