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Invitation to PTC Awards Reception and Business Meeting - Aug 11 & 12 AOM Chicago

  • 1.  Invitation to PTC Awards Reception and Business Meeting - Aug 11 & 12 AOM Chicago

    Posted 07-21-2018 10:37

    Dear Colleagues,

    The Practice Theme Committee (PTC) of the Academy of Management cordially invites you to our social event, business meeting and program at the Academy of Management meetings in Chicago (all at the Sheraton Grand Chicago).

    SATURDAY, AUG 11th, 2018
    6:30pm – 8:30pm           PTC Celebration and Awards Event, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Mississippi (please note room change)
    We will announce the winners of the prestigious 2018 Practice Impact Award, now in its 10th year, and the inaugural 2018 International Impactful Collaboration Award (co-sponsored with the International Theme Committee).  Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our award winners and our all-Academy team of volunteers.
    Food and wine will be served.

    SUNDAY, AUG 12th, 2018
    10:00am - 1:00pm          PTC Business Meeting, Sheraton Grand Chicago, Erie.
    We will review our activities to date and request involvement on planned activities including: a journal special issue on measuring impact of academic research with a call for reviewers; new strategic initiatives for the PTC; and, implementation of a visioning exercise that we are conducting to map the PTC's next steps.  We are also issuing a call for PTC officers and other volunteers for three-year terms beginning 2019 including PTC Chair, PDW Chair, and proposals or involvement in strategic initiatives.   Prior registration is requested.
    Food and beverages will be served.

    FRIDAY, AUG 10th – SATURDAY, AUG 11th, 2018
    8am – 6pm        PTC Professional Development Workshops (PDWs), Sheraton Grand Chicago
    PDW Chair Christof Backhaus has compiled an outstanding program of 15 PTC sponsored and co-sponsored workshops including topics such as scholar-practitioner cooperation, achieving external impact through research, professional doctorates, humanistic research, intervention research, entrepreneurship research, and outcomes of practice-based research. Please do attend!

    Thank you to our sponsors at the Durham University Business School.

    We look forward to seeing you in Chicago! Please contact Usha and Marc for further information.

    Usha Haley and Marc Bonnet (PTC Co-Chairs) 

    Usha C. V. Haley, PhD
    Frank Barton Distinguished Chair in International Business & Professor of Management
    Wichita State University, W. Frank Barton School of Business, 1845 Fairmount Street, Wichita, KS 67260-0048
    2016-2019 co-Chair, All Academy Practice Theme Committee, Academy of Management
    E-mail: uhaley@asia-pacific.com  Skype: usha.haley
    Current Research Grant: National Science Foundation, 2017 – Technology Development, Strategic Risk & National Policy
    Latest Book: Subsidies to Chinese Industry - Reviews in  Economist, S+B , ITIF Reading ListBusinessWeek Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, & methodology covered in Economist. Write-up by JP Morgan (Appendix 1)
    WWW: https://wichita.academia.edu/UshaHaley