2025 MOC Distinguished Scholar
Dr. Batia Wiesenfeld
At AOM 2025, MOC celebrated the heart of our scholarly community and recognized some of our brightest stars! At the center of this year’s plenary was the formal recognition of Professor Batia Wiesenfeld as the recipient of the 2025 MOC Distinguished Scholar Award.
As the Andre J.L. Koo Professor of Management and Director of the Business & Society Program at NYU Stern, Professor Wiesenfeld has made profound contributions to our understanding of organizational change and identity; digital work and the future of organizations; and stakeholder responses to restructuring, remote work, and crises. Her address was both thought-provoking and timely—offering a compelling vision of how cognition will shift and expand as humans continue to leverage AI.
Re-watch her address here: https://youtu.be/GI0N2UI4eOI
Batia Wiesenfeld, Andre J.L. Koo Professor of Management, is also the Director of the Business and Society Program at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is an expert on the effective management of organizational change across industries and sectors. She studies how technology changes the future of work and organizations, and how to manage employee and stakeholder reactions to layoffs, restructuring, remote work, and stigmatizing crises. Currently, much of her work focuses on how new AI/ML and digital health technologies are changing healthcare work and healthcare organizations, and how these technologies can be used for equity, upskilling, and at scale. Her work is multi-method, incorporating surveys, experiments, archival data analysis, interviews and observation. She is also an expert on theories of organizational identification, fairness, and construal level.
A former editor of Organization Science, she serves or served on multiple editorial boards including Administrative Science Quarterly and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Management, served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Management, and has received several large grants to support her work, including from the National Science Foundation. Batia received her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School, serves as an executive coach, and consults to senior leadership in a variety of organizations.