Hambrick Earns Academy Of Management's Highest Research Honor
Donald C. Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Scholarly Contributions to Management Award from the Academy of Management, the leading professional organization for scholars in the field of management and organization.
Hambrick Earns Academy Of Management's Highest Research Honor
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 29, 2008) – Donald C. Hambrick, Smeal Chaired Professor of Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been named the 2008 recipient of the Scholarly Contributions to Management Award from the Academy of Management, the leading professional organization for scholars in the field of management and organization.
The award, which is the Academy's highest prize for research accomplishments, honors Hambrick for a career filled with scholarly contributions that have advanced management and organizational knowledge and practice.
Hambrick will accept the award at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in August in Anaheim, Calif.
An acknowledged leader in his field, Hambrick has been researching the impact of executives on corporate performance for nearly 30 years, and his work is cited more than that of any other scholar in the field. He is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books on the topics of strategy formulation and implementation, executive staffing and incentives, and the composition and processes of top management teams.
He is a fellow and past president of the Academy of Management and has served on the board of directors of the Strategic Management Society and on the editorial boards of almost all the major scholarly journals in his field.
Hambrick holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Colorado, an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in organizational strategy and policy from Smeal.
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Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
