Stine Grodal - D'Amore-McKim School of Business (northeastern.edu)

Northeastern University

Stine Grodal is Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University D'Amore-McKim School of Business in the department of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Her research examines the emergence and evolution of markets and industries. She is especially interested in how firms can shape and exploit the socio-cognitive elements of markets. Her research has received numerous awards including the EGOS Best Paper Award and the TIM Best Paper Award. Grodal is committed to exploring different research methods. She is known for her expertise in qualitative methods including interviews, ethnography and in-depth archival research, which she combines with quantitative analyses and online experiments when appropriate.

Jamie J. Ladge - D'Amore-McKim School of Business (northeastern.edu)

D'Amore-McKim School of Business (northeastern.edu)

Jamie Ladge is a Professor and Group Chair of Management and Organizational Development at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business. She is primarily known for her research exploring the intersection of work and family, stigmatized social identities, and career equality, gender and diversity issues in organizations. Ladge's core area of research focuses on the psychological and career implications of professionally-employed mothers and fathers. She also researches the diversity challenges and work and family boundaries of those holding stigmatized social identities including pregnant workers and same-sex couples. Her work has been published in several top management and human resources journals including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Perspectives, Human Resource Management, and Harvard Business Review. She also recently co-authored the book, “Maternal Optimism: Forging Positive Paths through Work and Motherhood” which was published by Oxford University Press.

Tima Bansal | Faculty (uwo.ca)

Faculty (uwo.ca)

Pratima (Tima) Bansal is the Canada Research Chair of Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School (Western University) in London, Canada.  Her research focuses on sustainability issues, with theorizing centering on the dimensions of time, space and scale in business strategy. She has served as an Associate Editor and Deputy Editor at the Academy of Management Journal, handling only qualitative manuscripts.

Christine M. Beckman | USC Price School

Christine M. Beckman, USC Price School

Christine Beckman is the Price Family Chair in Social Innovation and Professor at the USC Price School of Public Policy.  She is the current Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and Past Division Chair of the Organization and Management Theory division of the Academy of Management. She previously served on the faculty at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.  At Maryland, she was the Academic Director for the Center for Social Value Creation, diversity officer, and facilitated a peer network for junior faculty women. At UC Irvine, she was a Chancellor’s Fellow from 2008-2011 and Faculty Director of the Don Beall Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She was the 2006 Western Academy of Management Ascendent Scholar.

Lindsey Cameron – Management Department (upenn.edu)

Lindsey Cameron – Management Department (upenn.edu)

Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and holds an appointment in the sociology department. She is a fellow (member) at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton and a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society for the 2023- 2024 academic year. She is a former faculty fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute. Her research focuses on how algorithmic management is changing the modern workplace, with an emphasis on the gig economy. Professor Cameron has an on-going, seven-year ethnography of the largest sector of the gig economy, the ride-hailing industry, examining how algorithms management changes managerial control. She recently completed a study on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected workers on various gig platforms (TaskRabbit, Instacart, AmazonFlex, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash). She is currently working on a project on how the gig economy’s business model adapts in the Global South, with a focus on the implications for management and workers.

Kimberly Elsbach | UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Kimberly Elsbach ,UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Kimberly D. Elsbach is Professor Emerita at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis. She is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, International Research Fellow at the Center for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University and co-founder of the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research. Kim's research focuses on perception – specifically how people perceive each other and their organizations. She has studied these perceptual processes in variety of contexts ranging from the California cattle industry, and the National Rifle Association, to Hollywood screenwriters and NASCAR fans. Some of her recent work examines how crying at work affects perceptions of professional women at work and how self-perceptions influence one’s willingness to take ideas in creative collaborations

Matthew Grimes - Cambridge Judge Business School

Matthew Grimes, Cambridge Judge Business School

Matthew Grimes is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Futures at the Judge Business School. Matthew's research interests include entrepreneurship and sustainable development. He examines how individuals and organizations create, introduce, and sustain positive social change by way of entrepreneurship by studying both the contextual and individual factors that contribute to innovation and the governance of innovation. He is a member of the Organisational Theory and Information Systems subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, Academic Co-Director of the Cambridge Judge Entrepreneurship Centre, and current Associate Editor at the Academy of Management Journal. Prior to obtaining his PhD, Professor Grimes was an Associate Director for Research at CEB (now Gartner) in Washington DC, London and New Delhi.

Kisha Lashley (virginia.edu)

Kisha Lashley, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Kisha Lashley is the Frank S. Kaulback Associate Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce and a Shannon Fellow at the University of Virginia. Professor Lashley is a field researcher who studies contentious practices within organizations and industries. Her research focuses on the dynamics of organizational social evaluations, encompassing areas such as stigma, reputation, and status to understand how organizations and their stakeholders negotiate shared meanings over time. Further, she is keenly interested in how organizations construct and revise their histories. Professor Lashley’s research has examined diverse industries, including healthcare, the cannabis industry, and payday lending.  

Siobhan O’mahony | Questrom School of Business

Siobhan O’mahony, Questrom School of Business

Siobhan O’Mahony is the Feld Family Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Management and Organization Department at Boston University Questrom School of Business. She is also an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly. Siobhan studies how creative or technical experts produce collaborative outcomes without the support or resources provided by traditional organizations. She has examined how entrepreneurs, product development teams, high technology contractors, open source programmers, music producers, scientists and engineers and activists achieve collective innovation, creativity or growth goals. Siobhan received her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, an M.P.A from the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, and a B.S. in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Michael Pratt - Carroll School of Management - Boston College (bc.edu)

Michael Pratt, Carroll School of Management - Boston College (bc.edu)

Michael G. Pratt is the O’Connor Family Professor at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Mike’s research is problem-centered and process-oriented; and explores how individuals connect with the work that they do, as well as with the organizations, professions, occupations, and other collectives in which they find themselves. Methodologically, most of his research is qualitative, drawing primarily on ethnography and grounded theory. Mike served as the inaugural associate editor for qualitative research at the Academy of Management Journal (2007-2010); and played a similar (though not inaugural) role at the Administrative Science Quarterly (2013-2024) where he is currently an outgoing associate editor.  He has written on various qualitative methods topics including crafting research questions, making observations, coding and analyzing data, methodological bricolage, and publishing qualitative research in top-tier journals. He has also written on the myths and misconceptions researchers often have about qualitative methods. Mike is an Academy of Management Fellow and former recipient of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Distinguished Scholar Award.

Aruna Ranganathan - Berkeley Haas

Berkeley Haas>Aruna Ranganathan, Berkeley Hass School of Business

Aruna Ranganathan is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Her research combines multiple methods to understand what the future of work holds, the ways in which remote work exacerbates or alleviates pre-existing workplace inequalities, and how workers seek meaning in this new world of work.

Imperial College London

Dr. Kevin Corley is a Professor of Management and co-Director for the Centre for Responsible Leadership. His expertise lies in the understanding of how individuals and organisations approach change, and how leaders can use times of uncertainty and ambiguity to the benefit of their organisation and followers. As a teacher and coach, his focus is to provide leaders with the tools to successfully implement organisational change utilising strategic thinking, adaptability, power/influence/persuasion, and negotiations.With both academic and industry experience, and a career-long interest in leading organizational change, Kevin brings value to a broad cross section of industries and organizations.

As a scholar, his research is driven by the question “Why do people experience change the way that they do?” He is widely published on issues related to organisational change, identity and culture in most of the field's top journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organziation Science, and the Strategic Management Journal, among others. Kevin has won multiple professional awards, including most recently being named the 2022 Distinguished Scholar for the Management & Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management. Kevin has served as associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal and currently serves on several editorial boards. Given his expertise in the process of organisational change and leadership’s role in those changes, he has worked closely with a range of Fortune 100 organizations, including Avnet, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, BP, Chevron, JDA Software, SAP, and SRP, as well as several mid- to small-size businesses.

Kevin earned an undergraduate degree in Business from Miami University (Ohio) with a focus on organizational behavior and information technology. Upon graduation in 1993, he joined Ernst & Young as a change management consultant in Chicago. Intrigued by the question as to what happens to people confronted with IT changes, and interested in teaching and research, Kevin left consulting and earned a Ph.D. in Business from the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on Organizational Behavior in 2002.

Kevin began his professorial career at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor in 2002. He joined the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State Univ in 2005, ultimately achieving the position of Professor in 2014 until his departure in May 2022. Kevin has also been a visiting professor at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. He has delivered talks at business schools across Europe and North America, including Oxford, Cass/Bayes, Warwick, Aalto, Hanken, INSEAD, IE, IESE, Bocconi, the Munich School of Management, ESSEC Paris, EPFL, ETH Zurich, HEC Montreal, Yale, Dartmouth, UC-Boulder, Boston University, and Boston College.

Stanford University

Kathleen Eisenhardt is the Stanford W. Ascherman M.D. Professor and a faculty member in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program. Her recent book (w/Don Sull) is "Simple Rules: How to Survive in a Complex World" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) which explores how simplicity tames complexity in business, life, and nature. She is also co-author (w/Shona Brown) of "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured" Chaos (Harvard Business School Press), winner of the George R. Terry Book Award for outstanding contribution to management thinking and an Amazon Top 10 Annual Business and Investing book. Professor Eisenhardt is also author of over 100 articles in research and business journals, and the first author featured in Harvard Business Review's OnPoint collection. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor with Insead's Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise area.

Professor Eisenhardt's research focus is strategy and organization, especially in technology-based companies and high-velocity industries. She is currently studying the use of "simple rules" heuristics, strategic interaction in new markets and ecosystems, strategy making in marketplaces, and business model design. She often uses multi-case theory building methods and more recently machine learning for theory building. She has received the career Scholarly Contribution Award from the Academy of Management and the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. She has been honored by many other awards including the Irwin Award for her contributions in strategy, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Organization Theory and Management (OMT) and Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) divisions, the ASQ Scholarly Contribution award for the most influential paper five years after publication, and Strategic Management Society's Schendel Best Paper prize. Professor Eisenhardt consults at senior levels with firms in industries ranging from Internet, telecommunications, software, and biotech to agribusiness, semiconductors, and clean tech.

Professor Eisenhardt was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management and of the Strategic Management Society, and is an INFORMS member. She has served on the editorial boards of ASQ, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She has been a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (Davos), a member of General Motors' Science Advisory Committee, and a board member of MWH Global, an international engineering design and construction firm. She serves on the Advisory Board of Start-Up Chile. Eisenhardt received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Brown University, cum laude and with honors). She holds an M.S. in computer science. Her Ph.D. is from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Professor Eisenhardt has several honorary degrees including from London Business School, Aalto University, Chalmers University of Technology.

EMLYON Business School

I am a Professor and Director of the Work, Technology, and Organization Research Center at emlyon business school. I examine professions and expertise in the context of regulatory and technological change. I am particularly interested in the expert work involved in regulating science and innovation, and the implications for scientists and technologists. I have published my work in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, and Regulation & Governance. I am a Senior Editor at Organization Science and founder of the Ethnography Atelier.

I was born in Alberta, Canada. I receieved my Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. I hold an MSc in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Women’s Studies from the University of Alberta. Prior to joining emlyon, I was an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University.

McMaster University

Erin Reid (Ph.D. Harvard University) is an expert in gender inequality, careers, diversity, identity, and the design of contemporary work. One line of research focuses on the reasons for the persistence of gender inequality in time-greedy professions and organizations. Another series of projects explores how professionals working in the gig economy build careers. The goals of her research are two-fold: to help people build satisfying careers, and to help employers build inclusive and equitable workplaces.

Dr. Reid has studied people working in a variety of fields, including management consulting, charter schools, journalism and independent science. She uses a variety of methods in her research, including qualitative interviews, as well as quantitative surveys. Her research is published in top management journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal. She also regularly publishes in outlets for non-academic audiences, such as Harvard Business Review and The Conversation. Her work is funded by SSHRC and the Government of Ontario's Early Researcher Awards program and has won multiple awards.

Dr. Reid is an Associate Editor at Administrative Science Quarterly and serves on the editorial board of Organization Science. She has previously served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Dr. Reid is a University Scholar, has been recognized as one of the world’s top 40 business school professors under the age of 40, and was listed as a Radar Thinker by Thinkers50. Her work has been profiled in media outlets, including the New York Times, Globe and Mail, The Atlantic and Fast Company. Prior to joining McMaster University, Dr. Reid was an Assistant Professor at Boston University.

Dr. Reid teaches in DeGroote’s undergraduate, MBA and PhD programs. She speaks about her research to a variety of academic and executive audiences.

University of Washington

Benjamin Hallen and Susan Cohen (2019) “Transactive Platforms in the Presence of Social Networks: The Impact of Accelerators on Venture Investment Syndicate Formation”

Benjamin Hallen, Jason Davis, and Alex Murray (2019) “Entrepreneurial Network Evolution: Explicating the Structural Localism and Agentic Network Change Distinction”

Honors and Awards
Winner of "Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching", Foster School of Business, 2018.

Named one of "2017 Best 40 Under 40 Professors", Poets & Quants. Global listing of Top Business School Professors under the age of 40.

Foster Teaching in Excellence Award: 2015, 2016, 2017

Winner of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division's Best Paper Award for 2014 Academy of Management Conference for "Do Accelerators Accelerate?", 2014.

Boston College

Prior to joining the Department of Management and Organization at Boston College in 2020, Rouse was an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Boston University. Her research focuses on collaboration at work, creative processes, and how creative workers psychologically attach to and detach from the products they make. Methodologically, much of her current research is inductive, qualitative, and process-focused in nature. Her articles have been published in various outlets including Academy of Management Journal and Academy of Management Review.

University of Cambridge

Professor Howard-Grenville’s work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Studies, Research Policy, Journal of Industrial Ecology and several other journals. She is the author of Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice (Edward Elgar, 2007), which documents her nine-month ethnography of environmental practice change at the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturer, and co-author or editor of three other books.

Professor Howard-Grenville teaches on the topics of organisational change, environmental sustainability, and organisational culture to executive audiences, as well on MBA, EMBA, and undergraduate courses. As Director of Cambridge Judge Business School’s PhD Programme, she also mentors and teaches PhD and Research MPhil students.

Professor Howard-Grenville currently serves as Deputy Editor for one of the management field’s top journals (Academy of Management Journal), where she previously served as Associate Editor (2013-2016). She serves as an Editorial Review Board member of the Academy of Management Journal (since 2010), Administrative Science Quarterly (since 2018), Organization Science (2009-2013), and Organization & Environment (since 2011).