Institute Fellow Jared Harris Wins Academy of Management Award for Best Dissertation

Charlottesville, VA, August 23, 2007-- Institute Fellow Jared Harris’ work on corporate financial misrepresentation won the 2007 Best Dissertation award in the Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Management Division. The dissertation, Financial Misrepresentation: Antecedents and Performance Effects, also qualified Harris as one of six finalists in the Business Policy and Strategy Division, an acknowledgement that highlights the cross-disciplinary nature of his work.  The award-winning dissertation was partially funded by a doctoral fellowship from the Institute in 2005.

“This work has a number of important implications for both managers and researchers,” says R. Edward Freeman, the Institute’s Academic Director. “It clearly demonstrates  how critical it is to unite ethics, business strategy and policy when you are running a company,” he said.

Harris is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration where he teaches Ethics and Strategy courses in the MBA program and a doctoral seminar on corporate governance and ethics. His research centers on the interplay between ethics and strategy, with a particular focus on the topics of corporate governance, business ethics, and interorganizational trust.  

His work has been published in Organization Science and Business & Professional Ethics Journal, and has been featured in the New York Times.

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