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Mary Tripsas is a Professor of Technology Management in the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Tripsas is a leading management scholar whose research focuses on the transformation of industries by new technology. Her important contributions make her our choice for the 2022 TIM Distinguished Scholar Award.

Professor Tripsas has conducted in-depth examinations of the emergence and evolution of  technologies in a wide range of industry contexts, including digital imaging, typesetters , eBooks, music synthesizers, and air taxis.  Her work is profound in its attention to detail and context, illustrating how the interplay of organizational capabilities, organizational identity, and managerial mental models shape strategic responses to technological shifts.

Professor Tripsas' influential work has been published in top journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and Strategic Management Journal. She has won multiple major awards including the Strategic Management Journal Schendel Best Paper Award, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Award, the Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Thought Leader Award, the Emerald Publishing Citation for Excellence Award, the Journal of Product Innovation Management Best Paper Award, and the MIT Sloan Zannetos best PhD thesis prize. In addition to journal articles, Mary Tripsas' Harvard Business School teaching cases have sold over 150,000 copies to students at academic institutions around the world.

Professor Tripsas has served as a Senior Editor for the journal Organization Science and as an editorial board member at the Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the INFORMS Organization Science Division and the Consortium of Cooperation and Competitiveness and was Division Chair of the Academy of Management's Technology and Innovation Management division.

Professor Tripsas earned her Ph.D. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, her MBA from the Harvard Business School, her B.S. in Computer Science and Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and was certified as a CPA in the State of Illinois.