2025 TIM Emerging Scholar Award Recipient: Dr. Maria Roche
Please join us in congratulating this year's recipient of the TIM Emerging Scholar Award: Dr. Maria Roche.
Dr. Roche will tell us more about her work and her path at this year's annual Academy of Management conference. The award session will be held on Monday, July 28 from 11am-noon in the Bella Center:Hall D- D3-m4 (session 25099).
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor in the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. Her research examines how specialized knowledge is commercialized and how micro-geographic environments, such as neighborhoods, buildings, or even office layouts, shape innovation outcomes. Her work demonstrates that organizations can achieve outsized innovation and performance gains by strategically designing and leveraging their physical and social environments.
Dr. Roche's research has been published in leading journals, including Management Science, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science, and Research Policy, and has been featured in outlets such as The Atlantic, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Handelsblatt. She is a recipient of best dissertation awards from the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management and from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies (EGOS). She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and Strategy Science. In 2025, she was the recipient of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students at HBS.
She earned her PhD in Management (Strategy and Innovation) from the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. She also holds an MS in Business Administration and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies from the University of Passau in Germany. Before entering academia, Professor Roche worked in a variety of sectors, including venture capital and film, and has lived and pursued professional opportunities in Canada, Germany, Austria, Spain, and the United States.
The TIM Emerging Scholar Award is given annually to a scholar who has completed their PhD in the last 7 years and whose scholarship shows exceptional quality and great promise of becoming influential in the area of technology and innovation management. Nominations are solicited each year and the winner is selected by a committee comprised of past TIM Division Chairs.
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Elena Novelli
TIM Program Chair
Professor of Strategy
Bayes Business School
City St. George's, University of London
106 Bunhill Row, London EC1Y 8TZ
Office Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 0991
https://www.elenanovelli.com------------------------------