Congratulations to Dr. Jacqueline Ng Lane for being selected as the Best Dissertation Award Finalist from the Technology & Innovation Management Division at the Academy of Management 2019! Her dissertation topic is “Organizing in the Digital Age: How Team Collaboration Networks Form and Why They Perform.”

Jackie received her PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School conducting research at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH). She can be reached at jnlane@hbs.edu.

Our lab director, Dr. Noshir Contractor, is this year’s keynote speaker at Organizational Communication & Information Systems (OCIS) Plenary Session. He will speak on the topic “People Analytics: Understanding and Enabling the Future of Work.”

Link to event details

Link to keynote speech (pdf)

Our graduate student, Kyosuke Tanaka, is attending the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management at Boston from August 8th- August 13th to present his work on human information routing in communication network. He will unpack the phenomenon via an organizational perspective and further the current research through developing a novel framework by introducing human cognition. The work he is presenting will be informing his dissertation.

Citation:

Tanaka, K. (2019). Toward Understanding Human Information Routing in Group Communication Networks. Poster to be presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Aug 8-13, Boston, MA, USA.