Academy of Management Discoveries

Marlys Christianson (PhD in Management & Organizations, University of Michigan) is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (faculty page). Her research interests include sensemaking, coordination of complex and interdependent work, resilient organizing, and error detection and correction. Her work has been published in a variety of outlets, including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Perspectives, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Research Methods, and Organization Science. She served as a Representative-at-Large for the Managerial and Organizational Cognition division of the Academy of Management. She has served as Associate Editor at AMD from 2018-2020, and on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Discoveries, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Management Inquiry, and Organization Science.

Susan K. Cohen is Associate Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. Her research addresses the question: How do firms successfully innovate? She has investigated organizational antecedents to innovation performance, including the structure of knowledge and capability, social network position, CEO occupational experience, alliance formation, and ecosystem strategy. Susan’s research builds on resource- and knowledge-based theories of the firm, social network theory, design science and technology frames, and the theory of complex contagion, and contributes to the knowledge base on innovation and commercialization strategies. Her current interests include the roles of firm-specific language in transforming life science business models and how the structure of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems affects new venture strategies to access resources. Her research has appeared in Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Susan is an Associate Editor at Academy of Management Discoveries and TIM Division Program Chair–Elect.

Erik Dane is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has long been fascinated by how managers focus their attention, solve problems, and make decisions. He has published research on phenomena such as intuition, expertise, mindfulness, mind wandering, and epiphanies in a number of journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Discoveries, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Previously, he was a faculty member at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University where he twice received the Jones School’s Scholarship Excellence Award. He enjoys physical fitness, mindful walking, philosophical conversations, and creative writing.

Joachim Henkel is a Professor of Technology and Innovation Management and Vice Dean of Research at TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich (faculty page). He received his Habilitation in Management from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, a Doctorate in Economics from University of Mannheim, and a Diplom (MS) in Theoretical Physics from University of Bonn. After his Ph.D., he worked for two years with the consulting firm, Bain & Company. His research focuses on digitalization, technology acquisitions, informal collaboration, open innovation, patent management, and value capture. He published his work among others in Academy of Management Discoveries, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Rand Journal of Economics, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal. Joachim serves on the editorial review boards of Industrial and Corporate Change, Innovation: Organization & Management, and Research Policy. He was a visiting scholar at University College London, MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Singapore Management University. He consults regularly for firms in the ICT industries.

Monica Higgins (PhD Harvard) is the Kathleen McCartney Professor of Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where her research and teaching focus on the areas of leadership and organizational change (faculty page). Monica’s recent work centers on schools as organizations and the ways in which organization and team-level conditions impact performance, particularly during times of uncertainty. She leads an initiative at Harvard Graduate School of Education called Scaling for Impact, which focuses on helping entrepreneurial initiatives scale their work for even greater impact. Monica teaches in a variety of leadership and organizational change programs across Harvard University, including Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also served as an appointee to the former Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, under President Obama from 2009-2016. Monica’s work has appeared in academic journals, including Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Applied Behavior Science, Research in Human Development, Journal of Educational Change. A native New Englander, Monica enjoys the outdoors in all kinds of weather, running and biking, and spending time with her family and their puppy, Leo.

Timothy Hoff, Ph.D. is Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts (faculty page). He is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Green-Templeton College, and an Associate Scholar at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He has also served as the Patrick and Helen Walsh Research Professor in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Before going into academia, he worked for a decade in hospital administration and as a health care consultant. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy, both from the University at Albany. Dr. Hoff studies health workforce issues, health care innovation, quality, primary care, and clinician behavior; and is an expert in the use of qualitative methods. His recent book, Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health, is published by Oxford University Press. Hoff has also published over 65 refereed articles in leading journals in medicine, health services research, and management, such as Pediatrics, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Academy of Management Perspectives, Health Affairs, and The Milbank Quarterly. His book titled Practice Under Pressure: Primary Care Physicians and Their Work in the 21st Century, earned an Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice Magazine in 2010. Hoff’s health care research has received over one million dollars in external funding support, and has won national awards from the American Sociological Association, Academy of Management, and Society for Applied Anthropology. He is coeditor of a 2016 reference volume on transformations in the health professions workforce titled The Healthcare Professional Workforce, also published by Oxford University Press. Hoff is also the former Division Chair for the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management. Dr. Hoff conducts executive education and management consulting for a variety of organizations within the healthcare industry, in areas such as change management, health workforce issues, workflow and systems redesign, and improving the patient experience in health care. He gives frequent talks on these topics to academics, industry executives, and medical professionals. He is a lifelong runner who still competes in a variety of events, and he enjoys fishing and camping with his family.

Chi-Hyon Lee (DBA Boston University) is an Associate Professor of Management at the School of Business, George Mason University (faculty page). He studies competitive strategy in networked industries. His work has been published in a variety of outlets including Academy of Management Journal, Advances in Strategic Management, California Management Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.

Jochen Menges holds the Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (faculty page) and serves as a faculty member in the Organizational Behaviour group at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in the UK. His research focuses on the role of emotions and motivation in organizational life and explores the social dynamics between leaders and followers. Jochen has published his work in academic journals that include, alongside Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, as well as in managerial outlets such as Harvard Business Review. Jochen is excited about new ideas and rigorously tested discoveries at the forefront knowledge, as well as the implications such insights hold for how leaders and organizations could and should shape the future of work.

Georg von Krogh is full Professor at ETH Zurich. He holds the Chair of Strategic Management & Innovation. He also chairs the Global Advisory Board at ETH Zurich, that advises the university's president on international strategy. Georg is an expert on competitive strategy, technological innovation, and knowledge management. He conducts quantitative and qualitative research, and has a strong interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning methods. He teaches Entrepreneurial Leadership, Strategic Management, and Innovation Theory & Research. Georg's work has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. He has received several awards for his work from the Academy of Management and other academic associations. He has been an Assistant Professor (visiting) of Business Policy at Bocconi University, Associate Professor of Strategy at BI Norwegian Business School, and Professor of Management at the University of St. Gallen. Georg holds a Master of Science (Engineering) and a PhD (Industrial Economics and Technology Management) from the Norwegian University of Technology and Natural Science. He served on the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and holds an honorary position as Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Georg serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.

Mike has been AMJ's Managing Editor since 2007. He has also served as Managing Editor for Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE) since joining the Academy of Management staff. Mike attended the University of Northern Colorado as a Journalism major before receiving his BA in Communications from Pace University. His professional background has been in the publishing industry, most recently as Senior Editor at Scholastic in the science reference division. Other experience includes editing, writing, and book production for M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Elsevier Science, Oceana Publications, and the American Water Works Association in Denver, CO. He currently lives in Brookfield, CT.