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School of Business Annual Report

 

Awards (2025-2026)

 

 

 

   Accountancy

  • Edward Sul, associate professor of accountancy, has been accepted into the Contemporary Accounting Research journal with "The Impact of SEC Reporting Changes on Information Acquisition and Market Dynamics: Evidence from Foreign Cross-Listed Firms," co-authored with Yongtae Kim and Jedson Pinto.

 

   Decision Sciences

 

   International Business

  • Robert Weiner, professor of international business, was chosen for an open-access collection assembled by Herman Aguinis of top quantitative-method articles in the field with the article, "The Event Study in International Business Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Practical Solutions," (coauthored with Lorrane Eden et al) published in the Journal of International Business Studies.
  • Jin Hyung Kim, associate professor of international business, has his paper, “ESG as a nonmarket strategy to cope with geopolitical tension: Empirical evidence from multinationals' ESG performance,” selected as one of four finalists for the 2026 Academy of International Business (AIB) Sustainability SIG Research Award. The winner will be announced at the annual AIB conference in Manchester, U.K., this July. Previously, the Strategic Management Journal (FT 50, UTD 24, and ABS 4*) also recognized the work as one of its top 10 most-cited papers of 2024.

 

   Management

  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and a professor of management, has been named to the Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers for the 8th year in a row. The prestigious distinction identifies the world’s most influential researchers based on the research produced in the last 11 years, contributing to innovations that make the world healthier, more sustainable, and that drive social impact.
  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, received the Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Societal Impact Award for his exceptional ability to translate rigorous academic research into practical applications that benefit organizations and society worldwide.
  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, received the 2025 Academy of Management Career Award for Distinguished Service (and gave an acceptance speech) at the annual meetings in Copenhagen. Professor Aguinis has also been elected as a Distinguished Fellow by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which honors an “elite group of globally recognized experts and leaders in the field of business.”
  • James Bailey, Hochberg Professorial Fellow of Leadership Development and professor of management, was appointed to Nepo, an executive development and coaching firm.
  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, has been ranked as the world’s #14 most prolific author of articles on the Financial Times (FT-50) journal list in management and organizations and #54 across accounting, economics, finance, information systems, management and organizations, marketing, and operations management. The study was published in the journal Production and Operations Management and was based on over 55,000 papers published between 2008 and 2022 by more than 54,000 researchers.
  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, has been ranked as the world’s #2 most productive and #2 most cited researcher in the domain of workplace romance. The study, published in the Springer-Nature journal Quality and Quantity, covered all articles published between 1985 and 2024.
  • Margaret Ormiston, associate professor of management, is part of a recently awarded $2.7 million NIH grant, which includes researchers from the Children's National Hospital. The purpose is to improve leadership training for researchers, and was inspired by the professor's class on team leadership.
  • Herman Aguinis, Joel Gehman, Cevat Tosun and Jennifer Spencer were all listed under Stanford's Top 2% scientists under the single-year (business and economics) category. Aguinis and Tosun were also listed under the career (economics and business) category. This study is published annually and provides standardized information showing career-long impact ranking and, separately, for the most recent year.
  • An article in the journal Organizational Dynamics co-authored by Amando Cope, GWSB doctoral student, and Herman Aguinis, Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and professor of management, has been selected as one of “51 exceptional articles” addressing the use of AI in talent management. The review, published in the Springer-Nature journal Review of Managerial Science, included 11,216 articles from the Scopus database.
  • Herman Aguinis, Avram Distinguished Scholar and professor of Management, has been ranked as the world’s #42 most impactful business and management researcher based on career-long impact (and #38 based on the year 2024) by the "Stanford top 2% researchers study.” The study is published annually and is based on over 6 million researchers across 22 scientific fields.

 

   Marketing

  • Li Jiang, associate professor of marketing, earned a DEI recognition badge from the CSCW conference on her paper "Beyond 'Vulnerable Populations': A Unified Understanding of Vulnerability in Privacy and Security from A Socio-Ecological Perspective."
  • Gil Appel, assistant professor of marketing, recently won the Honey W. Nashman Spark a Life Faculty Award, presented to a nominated faculty member (nominated by students, faculty or staff) who has impacted and inspired a student or student organization.
  • Gil Appel, assistant professor of marketing, has been chosen for Honorable Mention for the Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP) Best Paper Award for his JCP paper "What makes people happy? Decoupling the experiential-material continuum." Additionally, his publication, "Lower artificial intelligence literacy predicts greater AI receptivity," received the AMA AI SIG 2026 Best Paper Award. This award recognizes the most innovative, theoretically insightful and managerially relevant published study at the intersection of AI and marketing. 

 

   Strategic Management and Public Policy

  • Vontrese Pamphile, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, has accepted an invitation to be on the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Journal.
  • Jennifer Merluzzi, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, has been selected to present the paper, "Gendered Career Identities and the Valuation of Women Workers in the Labor Market," during a roundtable session at the People and Organizations Conference in September.
  • Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy and Lindner-Gambal Professor, has accepted invitations to serve on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Journal (his third 3-year term) and Administrative Science Quarterly (his fourth 2-year term). Professor Gehman also serves as Associate Editor at Organization Theory, a journal he helped launch in 2019. The journal has published five volumes (2020-2024) and was indexed by Web of Science for the first time this year, receiving an Impact Factor of 6.4, ranking it #57 out of 420 in Management.
  • Vikram Bhargava, professor of strategic management and public policy, is a finalist for Business Ethics Quarterly's Outstanding Article of the Year Award with "Hiring, Algorithms, and Choice: Why Interviews Still Matter". His article "Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addictions" was also referenced in a World Economic Forum Report.
  • Joel Gehman, professor of strategic management and public policy, recently spoke at the B Academics Chat with the Board Series: The State of B Corp, a webinar allowing the business community to engage with the forefront of B Corp scholarship.
  • Vikram Bhargava, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, delivered the inaugural lecture, "Artificial Intelligence and the Value of Choice," for the Institute for Corporate Governance and Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He was also invited to deliver lectures on AI ethics at Keio University in Tokyo and the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy,, has been ranked among the world’s most impactful business and management researchers based on impact in 2024 by the "Stanford top 2% researchers study.”
  • Vikram Bhargava, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, has been invited to join the editorial board of Business and Society, a journal focused on the intersection of business and society, covering topics like ethics, corporate governance and social responsibility.
  • Joel Gehman, chair and professor of strategic management and public policy,, was re-elected to serve as Board Member and Vice President of B Academics, a 501c3 nonprofit he co-founded in 2019. Related to this work, Professor Gehman was a panelist at the Build It Boldly event at Patagonia in Alexandria. He also organized and hosted the 2025 Mid-Atlantic B Corps Workshop at GW Business, bringing together several dozen academics and industry professionals from across the DMV ecosystem of social enterprises, with support from the William E. Halal Research Fund. Professor Gehman's work in this area builds on his multiple peer-reviewed articles on B Corps, benefit corps, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
  • Vontrese Pamphile, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, was named a “Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors” by Poets & Quants.
  • Everlyne Misati, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, had a paper she submitted to AOM Copenhagen be included in the Best Paper Proceedings, a recognition given to the top 10% of paper submissions.
  • Vontrese Pamphile, associate professor of strategic management and public policy, and Everlyne Misati, assistant professor of strategic management and public policy, both received the OMT Division ABCD Reviewing Award. This award is given to reviewers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty.
  • Jorge Walter, vice dean for faculty and research and professor of strategic management and public policy, had his book, Reconceptualizing Organizational Control (Cambridge University Press, 2025), selected as a finalist this summer for the prestigious 2025 EGOS Book Award.

 

   Information Systems and Technology Management

  • Sunghun Chung, associate professor of information systems and technology management, was elected as the secretary of the Korean Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (KrAIS) for 2025-2026. KrAIS has received an outstanding chapter award for the last 12 years, with over 500 members globally.
  • YoungKi Park, associate professor of information systems and technology management, was elected as a co-president of the Korean Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (KrAIS).
  • Yi-Chun (Chad) Ho, professor of information systems and technology management, had his publication "Asymmetric and Contingent Value of Crowd Wisdom in Crowdfunding Markets" accepted into Information Systems Research (a UTD-24 journal).
  • YoungKi Park, associate professor of information systems and technology management, received an award of honorable mention for the C-CUBES Award for Outstanding Research & Impact by the Center for Customer-Based Execution and Strategy at Rice University. Additionally, his paper, “Organized Complexity of Digital Business Strategy: A Configurational Perspective,” co-authored with Sunil Mithas, was published in MIS Quarterly.