News & Awards

Smeal's Management Faculty Ranked No. 1 in Research Productivity

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (July 30, 2009) – Over the past four years, faculty and Ph.D. students from the Department of Management and Organization at Penn State's Smeal College of Business have published more research papers in the top management journals than any other management department in the United States and Canada, according to joint research from Texas A&M University and the University of Florida.

For several years, researchers at Florida and Texas A&M have annually measured the productivity of U.S. and Canadian management departments by tallying how many of their articles appeared throughout the year in A-level management journals. Since 2005, Smeal's Department of Management and Organization has been ranked among the top two management departments each year, including No. 1 rankings in 2006 and 2008. Cumulatively, from 2005 to 2008, no school's faculty has published more in the top journals, despite the fact that Smeal's management department has fewer faculty members than almost all of its competitors.

Academy of Management Honors Hambrick for Teaching

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 18, 2009) – The Academy of Management has named Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, as the 2009 recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award, the organization's highest honor for management education.

The award honors Hambrick's career accomplishments in the classroom and is based on his significant contributions in developing doctoral students, teaching effectively, fostering pedagogical innovations, and developing effective methods, structure, and designs. Hambrick will receive the honor in August at the 2009 meeting of the Academy of Management, the leading professional organization for scholars in the field of management and organization.

Smeal Ph.D. Candidate Earns Best Paper Honors

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (January 16, 2009) – The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport recently awarded a Smeal College of Business doctoral student with the Barbara A. Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award.

Lindsey Pilver, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Management and Organization, received the award for a paper based on her master’s thesis entitled "'I Am Naturally Competitive, But I Am OK with Being in the Middle': Identity Negotiation and the Conflicting Discourses of Female College Athletes."

Conference To Honor Smeal Professor's Classic Strategic Management Book

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (November 7, 2008) – Cardiff University in Great Britain is holding a conference next month to mark the 30th anniversary of a seminal book in the management discipline co-authored by Charles Snow, Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

"Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process: A Reflection on the Research Perspective of Miles and Snow" will be held Dec. 3-5 in honor of Snow and Raymond Miles, professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, co-authors of one of the most influential books in the strategic management literature, Organizational Strategy, Structure, and Process.

Smeal Awards 2008-2009 Doctoral Scholarships

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 25, 2008) – Penn State's Smeal College of Business has awarded eight doctoral students with scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Dan Chiaburu, a doctoral student in the Department of Management and Organization, has been selected as the recipient of the Edward and Susan Wilson Graduate Scholarship Award. The Wilson Scholarship was endowed by Edward and Susan Wilson as a result of their strong involvement in the Penn State Alumni Association and their commitment to Penn State.

Smeal Professors Awarded $385,000 National Science Foundation Grant

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 21, 2008) – The National Science Foundation has awarded a $385,000 research grant to two professors at Penn State's Smeal College of Business to study the architecture of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration.

Raghu Garud, professor of management and organization, and Barbara Gray, professor of organizational behavior, will study the elements that enable researchers from different disciplines to develop innovative research by working across disciplinary boundaries. Garud and Gray, along with three doctoral students, will study research collaboration in two settings that have the potential to yield valuable new research insights.

Penn State Names Treviño Distinguished Professor Of Ethics And Organizational Behavior

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 6, 2008) – Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named a Distinguished Professor by the University for her record of service to Smeal in both teaching and research. Effective July 1, 2008, her title will be Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Organizational Behavior.

Distinguished Professorships are awarded annually by Penn State to select faculty members who have been nominated by their college for outstanding academic contributions.

Smeal Professor Earns Honor At National Entrepreneurship Conference

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 1, 2008) – Robert Macy, clinical assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, was part of a team honored with one of two 2008 Outstanding Workshop Awards for their presentation at the national conference of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), held last month in San Antonio.

Macy and several colleagues from the University of Oregon earned the Outstanding Pedagogy Workshop award for their presentation "Active Learning in Entrepreneurship: Applying the Jigsaw Method to Entrepreneurship Instruction."

Donald And Peg Hambrick Establish Smeal Research Fund With $100,000 Gift

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (December 3, 2007) – Donald Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, and his wife, Peg Hambrick, have given $100,000 to support academic research in Smeal's Department of Management and Organization.

The Max D. Richards Endowment for Eminence in Management Research, named to honor a former Smeal associate dean and professor of management, will provide assistance for faculty research and establish a guest speaker program.

Research: Telecommuting A Win-Win For Employees And Employers

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (November 20, 2007) – Telecommuting has mostly positive consequences for employees and employers, resulting in higher morale and job satisfaction and lower employee stress and turnover, according to research by a professor and Ph.D. candidate at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Ravi Gajendran, a doctoral student in the Department of Management and Organization, and David Harrison, Smeal Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, examined 20 years of research on flexible work arrangements, including 46 studies of telecommuting involving 12,833 employees. Their results are reported in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association.

Texas A&M Honors Treviño

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 30, 2007) – Linda Treviño, Franklin H. Cook Fellow in Business Ethics at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named an Outstanding Doctoral Alumna by her Ph.D. alma mater, the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.

Treviño, who joined the Smeal faculty in 1987 after earning her Ph.D. in management from Mays, was honored at a ceremony earlier this month for her outstanding achievements in the field of corporate ethics management.

Smeal Professor Earns National Teaching Honor

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (February 5, 2007) – The United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), the U.S. affiliate of the International Council for Small Business, has honored a Smeal College of Business entrepreneurship professor with a major teaching award.

Robert Macy, clinical assistant professor of entrepreneurship, received the Extraordinary Educator award from the USASBE's Corporate Entrepreneurship Division at the association's national conference last month in Orlando, Fla

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