Paper co-authored by Prof. Keil wins William F. (Bill) Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management (STR) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM)
Should managers try to provide guidance to their subordinates when they are tackling a problem that is new to both of them? Do subordinates learn better with more or less guidance? This situation is rather common for the problems faced by senior management, but not well understood in strategy and organization theory.
The paper State of Confusion: The Organizational Design of Subordinate Learning under Managerial Guidance (co-authored by Hart Posen, Thomas Keil, and Dirk Martignoni), tackling these questions, won the 2025 William F. (Bill) Glueck Best Paper Award of the Strategic Management (STR) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM).
Each year, at the Academy of Management’s annual meeting, the STR Division selects the top submission to the refereed scholarly program—it’s judged the “best paper” of all submissions to the division. The award is named in tribute to Bill Glueck, who served as the 35th President of the Academy of Management. Support for the prize comes from his former students and friends.