Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award

The Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award recognizes the best paper based on a dissertation. To be eligible, the paper must be individually authored by the student. To be considered for the Pondy Award, you must submit your manuscript to the OMT Divison through the Academy of Management Annual Meeting online submission system. During this process you need to certify that your paper is eligible for the Pondy Award. Once received, all manuscripts are sent out for anonymous review and rating. The eligibility of the top rated manuscripts is confirmed, at which point they are forwarded to the OMT Division's Research Committee, which determines the Pondy Award winner. The Pondy Award winner is announced at the OMT Business Meeting during the AOM Annual Meeting. The winning paper is automatically nominated for the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Award for outstanding papers based on a recent dissertation. The Newman Award was first given out in 1999.
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**Denotes dissertation-based papers that also won the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Award.
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2024 Parijat Chakrabarti (University of Michigan)
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2023 Laura Adler (Yale University)
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2022 Ryann Elizabeth Manning (University of Toronto)
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2021 Kylie Jiwon Hwang (Columbia University)
 
2020 Brittany Bond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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2019 Arvind Karunakaran (McGill University)
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2018 Pedro Monteiro (EM Lyon)
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2017 Derek Harmon (University of Michigan)
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2016 Aruna Ranganathan (Stanford University)
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2015 Mabel Abraham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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2014 Laura Singleton (Eckerd College)
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2013 Murad Mithani (Stevens Institute of Technology)
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2012 Kaisa E. Snellman (Harvard University)
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2011 Christopher Yenkey (Cornell University)**
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2010 David Zhu (Arizona State University)**
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2009 Dali Ma (University of Chicago)**
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2008 Elizabeth G. Pontikes (Stanford University)**
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2007 Jerry W. Kim (Columbia University)
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2006 Christopher Marquis (University of Michigan)**
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2005 Nina Shah (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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2004 Sean C. Safford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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2003 Stefan Jonsson (Stockholm School of Economics)**
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2002 Bongjin Kim (Tilburg University)
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2001 Matthew S. Bothner (Columbia University)**
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2001 Isabelle Royer (Dauphine University)
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2000 Timothy G. Pollock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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1999 Beth Bechky (Stanford University)**
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1998 Gautam Ahuja (University Of Michigan)
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1997 Ha Hoang (Case Western Reserve University)
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1996 D. Charles Galunic (INSEAD)
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1996 Scott Snook (Harvard University)
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1995 Matthew Kraatz (Northwestern University)
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1994 Brian Uzzi (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
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1993 Kimberly D. Elsbach (Stanford University)
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1992 Pamela R. Haunschild (Carnegie Mellon University)
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1991 Brian T. Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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1990 Heather A. Haveman (University of California, Berkeley)
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1988 William P. Barnett (University of California, Berkeley)
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