Faculty & Research News
Farewell to inaugural research director
Mary Ann Glynn, the inaugural director of research at the Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics and Joseph F. Cotter Professor of Management and Organizations, retired in spring 2021.听She arrived at 热点爆料入口 in 2006 in conjunction with the founding of the Center, and was instrumental听in developing and establishing its successful research presence. During her tenure, Mary Ann developed a series of lively programs, including faculty seminars and 鈥渟ummer day camp鈥� workshops, as well as curricula.听
Mary Ann came to 热点爆料入口 after 13 years at Emory鈥檚 Goizueta Business School. Previously, she served on the faculties of Yale University鈥檚 School of Organization and Management and the University of Michigan鈥檚 Ross School of Business, and held an honorary position at the Copenhagen Business School. She has had visiting positions at the Harvard Business School, New York University, and the University of Alberta School of Business.听
Mary Ann earned her PhD in Management of Organizations at Columbia University鈥檚 Graduate School of Business in 1988. She has studied processes of organizational, institutional, and cultural change. She has given numerous invited keynote speeches, presented at academic conferences, and published over 100 articles and book chapters in the leading journals of her field, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the听Strategic Management Journal. She has co-authored a recent book, Cultural Entrepreneurship: A New Agenda for the Study of Entrepreneurial Identity and Institutions (with Michael Lounsbury, Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Mary Ann has received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Academy of Management鈥檚 Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division; twice been awarded the IDEA Thought Leader Award (2011 and 2012); and is an Academy of Management Fellow, a distinction given to the top one percent of membership for 鈥渟ignificant contributions to the science and practice of management.鈥� Mary Ann was elected the 73rd听president (2018) of the 20,000-member Academy of Management and served that organization as a representative at large and as an officer in multiple divisions. She has had nearly 20 years鈥� experience teaching leadership courses and workshops to MBAs, PhDs, and executives. At 热点爆料入口, she enjoyed teaching a popular MBA elective on principled leadership and regularly taught Leading Organizational Change for 热点爆料入口鈥檚 Center for Corporate Citizenship.
She has mentored scores of graduate students and is proud to have served on numerous doctoral dissertations for PhDs who have gone on to teach at leading universities.
Join us in wishing Mary Ann good health,听happiness, and success on her new journey in life.
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