This year, the following papers were chosen from nominations submitted across the academic departments:
- Matt Bloom, Research Professor of Management & Organization, “Stories of Calling: How Called Professionals Construct Narrative Identities” (Administrative Sciences Quarterly, August 2020).
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Yixing Chen, Assistant Professor of Marketing, “Improving Cancer Outreach Effectiveness Through Targeting and Economic Assessments: Insights from a Randomized Field Experiment” (Journal of Marketing, March 2020).
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Zach Kowalski, Assistant Professor of Accountancy, “Can ethics be taught? Evidence from securities exams and investment adviser misconduct” (Journal of Financial Economics, October 2020).
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Sophie Shive, Viola D. Hank Associate Professor of Finance, and Margeret Forster, Teaching Professor of Finance; “Corporate governance and pollution externalities of public and private firms” (Journal of Financial Studies, 2020).
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Daewon Sun, Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations; “Responsible Sourcing under Asymmetric Information: Price Signaling versus Supplier Disclosure” (Decision Sciences, October 2020).
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Katie Wowak, Associate Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations; “The Influence of Female Directors on Product Recall Decisions” (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, March 2020).
The award comes with a $1,000 prize and will be announced publicly in an upcoming Mendoza Exchange Dean’s Message as well as listed on Mendoza’s Faculty Awards webpage.