Management Education and Development Division

Letter with News

5 June 2007

Editor:  Kurt Heppard

United States Air Force Academy, Colorado

 

Endowment Campaign for the Armandi Award

J. B. Arbaugh, MED Division Chair

To honor the memory of former MED Division Chair Barry Armandi, MED has decided to create the Armandi Best Doctoral Student Paper Award. This award will be given for the best paper by a doctoral student or students. 

Consistent with our other best paper awards, we anticipate that the award will be a commemorative plaque and a $500 cash award. We are trying to establish an AOM endowment account to fund this award. If you’d like to contribute to the endowment, please send a check made to the Academy of Management to the following address: 

J. B. Arbaugh, MED Division Chair

College of Business

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

800 Algoma Blvd.

Oshkosh, WI 54901

The checks will then be sent collectively to the Academy office.  Since individual contributions to the Academy are tax deductible, you will receive a letter of receipt. If you have questions regarding the Armandi Award or the endowment fund contact email the Division Chair at arbaugh@uwosh.edu

  

MED Program Chair Elect

Kenneth R. Thompson, DePaul University

Congratulations to Professor Kenneth R. Thompson of DePaul University who has been elected to the position of Program Chair Elect for the division.  This year, nearly 30% of the MED membership participated in the election with more than 500 votes cast!
 

2007 MED Program Highlights

Alvin Hwang, 2007 MED Program Chair

 MED received 127 paper submissions for the 2007 meetings in Philadelphia, – a new record.  Based on reviewer feedback, MED has accepted 60 papers for presentation across 15 normal paper sessions, and another 7 papers in different interactive paper sessions.  MED members and members of the AOM can look forward to paper sessions that ranged from “Positioning Business Schools to Meet Needs” to “Using Teams in the Classroom” to “Virtual Learning: Satisfaction and Values,”  and a whole host of interesting topics of importance in business education.   

Please note the sessions when our Best Paper Award Winners and other Academy Proceedings papers will be presented.  Gerard Beenen (Carnegie Mellon U.) will be presenting proceedings paper “Learning Fast: Understanding MBA Internship Effectiveness” on Monday in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109A during the 8:30 -10:20am session.  Also during that session time Alan Belasen and Rosalyn Rufer (both SUNY-Empire State College) will be presenting proceedings paper “Building a Competency-based MBA Program from the Ground Up: Curriculum Design and Program Delivery” in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109B.  Steve John Kempster (Lancaster U.) will be presenting the Best Paper in Management Development, “Echoes from the Past: An Exploration of the Impact of ‘Notable People’ on Leadership Learning” during the Monday 2:30-3:50pm session in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109B. During the Monday 4:10 – 5:20pm session in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109B, Bob Rubin and Erich Dierdorff (both of DePaul U.) will present the Global Forum Best Paper “How Relevant is the MBA? Assessing the Alignment of MBA Curricula and Managerial Competencies” and Anson Seers and Jeffrey Krug (both of Virginia Commonwealth U.) will present proceedings paper “MBA Market Differentiation: An Analysis of Recruiter Perceptions and School Characteristics”. Finally, in the Tuesday 10:30-11:50am session in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109B we will have two best paper presentations. Louise Anne Nemanich (Arizona State U.), Michael Banks and Dusya Vera (both of U. of Houston) will be presenting Best Paper in Management Education “Knowledge Transfer and Enjoyment in Classroom vs. Online Settings”, and J. B. Arbaugh (U. of Wisconsin Oshkosh) will be presenting Best Paper in Graduate Management Education “Does the Community of Inquiry Framework Predict Outcomes in Online MBA Courses?”

 In addition to paper sessions, MED received 29 symposia submissions, out of which MED has become sole sponsor for 4 symposia, the lead sponsor for 2 others, and co-sponsors for another 9 symposia.  Two symposia that have won prestigious awards this year included “Facing the Brutal Facts of Global Leadership Development” chaired by Professor Mark Mendenhall (UT Chattanooga) – All Academy Symposium and Winner of Global Forum Symposia Award from Manchester Business School, Manchester University (presented Tuesday at 2:30 in Marriott Grand Ballroom C); and “Being and Becoming a Management Education Scholar” chaired by Professor Charlie Wankel --  Winner of McGraw-Hill/Irwin Best Symposium Award (presented Tuesday at 8:30am in Pennsylvania Convention Center Room 109B).

 The MED theme session “Transforming Business Education” will be presented by Professor Joel Podolny, Dean of Yale University.  He will speak about the changing business education landscape and the transformation that is taking place at the Yale Business School.  This session is scheduled on Monday, August 6, 10:40 – 11:50am in Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 109B.  This will be an enlightening session and point to how top business schools see the changing business education landscape and student expectations on a global scale.

 All MED sponsored paper sessions and MED sole and lead sponsored symposia will be held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 108A, 109A and 109B.   The MED Business Meeting will be held in Room 109A on Tuesday evening, 5:30pm – 7:00pm.  This is followed by the MED Social in the Independence Ballroom, Marriot Hotel from 7:00pm to 10:00pm.  For more details on the MED program visit http://meetings.aomonline.org/2007. 

 

Sponsorship Opportunities for the MED/NDSC Welcome Reception

J. B. Arbaugh, MED Division Chair

We will be conducting the inaugural MED/NDSC Welcome Reception at this year's Academy meetings. As many of you are no doubt aware, new doctorally-qualified faculty in business are in high demand. Therefore, many schools will need to do whatever they're able to put their best foot forward to these emerging scholars.  MED will provide schools a fairly cost-efficient way of getting their names out to those new to the profession. We'll be offering schools/departments the opportunity to be sponsors for this reception. The sponsoring thresholds and associated "awards" for sponsorship are as follows:

If your school (or you on behalf of your school) is interested in being a sponsor for this event, please contact me directly (arbaugh@uwosh.edu) to work out the logistics of sponsorship

 

 Call for Nominees for Executive Committee Elections

During our Tuesday Business Meeting we will be holding elections for several positions on the MED Executive Committee.  These positions include:

For more information regarding these positions, visit the MED Constitution site at http://division.aomonline.org/med/constitution.htm.

Nominations are now open for these positions. While you certainly are welcome to make nominations for these positions at the business meeting, we also will seek nominations prior to the meeting.  You can submit nominations to either Division Chair Ben Arbaugh at arbaugh@uwosh.edu or Past Division Chair Steve Armstrong at stevearmstrong@welton-lincoln.freeserve.co.uk 

 

MED Representatives for

Nippon Academy of Management Education Meetings

 MED has a reciprocal arrangement with the Nippon Academy of Management Education (NAME) to provide representatives to speak at each other’s annual meetings. MED’s representatives for the following years are:

2007: Tom Bryant, Rowan U.

2008: Jim Stoner, Fordham U.

2009: Laurie Milton, U. of Calgary

Our thanks go to each of these representatives for their willingness to serve in this capacity!!

 

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Kurt  Heppard
United States Air Force Academy
Department of Management
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