2025 MED Division Award Winners

MED Division 2025 Best Professional Development Workshop in Management Education and Development

Each year the MED Division of the Academy of Management recognizes the PDW session that offers the most significant contribution to the program

Ekaterina A. Ivanova, Isabel Rimanoczy, and Divya Singhal (organizers);

Gretchen Renshaw, Michael Akim, Ekaterina A. Ivanova, Saloni Sinha, Marina Anna Schmitz, Secil Bayraktar, Fernanda Carreira, Ankit Agarwal, Assia Viachka, Thomas Lavelle, Charlie Yang, Maria Ivanova, Katharina Stefanie Spraul, Cristina Beard, Roxane Mary Butterworth, Inge Marije Brokerhof, Wypkje van der Heide, and Ruth Areli García-León (Facilitators/Presenters).

"Transforming Mindsets: The Power of Arts-Based Pedagogy in Education for Sustainability"

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Each year the MED Division of the Academy of Management recognizes outstanding submissions to the AOM Annual Meeting.

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MED Division 2025 Best Paper in Management Education and Development Award

This award recognizes the submission that offers the most significant contribution to management education

The 2025 recipients of the Best Paper in Management Education is: Jackson Lu, Michelle Zhao, Hui Liao, Lu Zhang.

"Fostering Assertiveness and Leadership Emergence with Debate Training"
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MED Division 2025 Best Symposium in Management Education and Development Award

This award recognizes the symposium that offers the most significant contribution to advance management education and development 

The 2025 recipients of the Best Symposium in Management Education and Development Award are: 
Organizers: Mairead Brady and Martin Fellenz

Discussant: Peter Bryant 

Presenters* and Co-authors: Martin Fellenz*, Mairead Brady, Ulrich Hommel*, Koen Vandenbemp, David Lefevre*, Rosie Loyd, Dirk Lindebaum*, Eimear Nolan, and Stratos Ramoglou.

"AI as a Disruptor in Management Education: Are Business Schools Ready for the Future?"
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MED Division 2025 Global Forum Best Paper

This award recognizes the submission that best creates the opportunity to address a global or international issue of significance to management education and development

The 2025 recipients of the Global Forum Best Paper are: Wendy Farrell, Ernesto Tavoletti, Dhruv Pratap Singh, Vas Taras, & Jennifer Leigh.

"Optimizing Performance: Task-Technology Fit of Generative AI in Global Virtual Team Student Projects"
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MED Division 2025 Junior Faculty Best Paper

This award recognizes the most significant contribution to management education by a junior faculty authorship team.

The 2025 recipients of the Junior Faculty Best Paper is: Carlos Plata and  Alejando Casallas

"Machine Learning Analysis Of The Factors Influencing University-Industry Collaborations"

MED Division 2025 Global Forum Best Symposium

This award recognizes the symposium that best creates the opportunity to address global issues of significance to management education and/or development

The symposium organizer is Ragnhild N Fauchald, Lise Aaboen, Roger Sorheim
 

The symposium panelists are Torgeir Aadland, Andrew Corbett, Ulla Hytti, Mats Lundqvist, Marie Lowegren, Karen Williams Middleton, Siri Terjesen.

The symposium moderator is Roger Sorheim

Legitimation and Impact of Action-based Entrepreneurship Education

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  MED Division 2025 Award for Best Paper in Graduate Management Education and Development

This award recognizes the most significant contribution to graduate management education 

The 2025 recipients of the Best Paper in Graduate Management Education are: 

David Nawrath, Jack Herman Fuchs, Jürgen Dieber, Sheri Sheppard.

"Navigating the Entrepreneurial Compass: How Education Shapes Values and Principles for Entrepreneurs
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MED Division 2025 MED Evidence-Based Leadership Development Program Award

This award recognizes a high-quality, EBLD academic program to promote the adoption of high EBLD standards as a field

The 2025 recipients of the MED Evidence-Based Leadership Development Program Award are Marshall Ganz, Julia Lee Cunningham, Alaina Segura, and Emily S Lin.

The Pedagogy and Practice of Public Narrative: Enabling Leaders to Transform Shared Values into Effective Collective Action

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 MED Division 2025 MED J.B. “Ben” Arbaugh Outstanding Member Contribution & Leadership Award

This award recognizes the MED member who best exemplifies a career of dedication and service to the MED division

The 2025 recipient of the MED J.B. “Ben” Arbaugh Outstanding Member Contribution & Leadership Award are

Jeanie M. Forray and Kathy Lund Dean.

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MED Division 2025 Barry Armandi Award for Best Student Paper in Management Education and Development Award

This award recognizes the most significant contribution to management education by a student.

The 2025 recipient of the Student’s Best Paper Award are

 Federica Fusaro, Chaïma BENZEKRI, Thomas Gauthier

Talking more resilient futures into existence through business education