Prof. Samer Faraj wins "Best Supervisor Award"

Prof. Samer Faraj won this year's "Best Supervisor Award" at McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management. Every year, the doctoral students at Desautels hold a vote to choose the most supportive, most available mentor and teacher in the program. He shared the honor with Marketing Professor Ashesh Mukherjee.

GCC students Hani and Diego receive excellence in teaching awards

PhD Students Hani Safadi and Diego Mastroianni received today from the Desautels Doctoral Student Society (DDSS) the excellence in teaching award for their achievements in courses taught in 2012. Hani conducted the course Managing Data & Databases in the Winter term, while Diego taught the course Managing Knowledge with IT in the Fall term.

Two GCC papers accepted for the next EGOS Colloquium

Two submissions from our PhD students Mahmood Zargar and Diego Mastroianni were accepted for presentation at the 29th EGOS Colloquium 2013 in Montreal. They will both present at Sub-theme 54 (Rethinking the Social, Technical and Material Foundations of Organizations). Their papers are entitled "Managing knowledge boundaries in bioinformatics research units" and "Entanglement or imbrication? Bridging the divide of sociomateriality literature", respectively.

Press Release from the Future Science Group

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics publishes a special issue on “Theranostics for Innovation in 21st Century Healthcare”. For the Press Release, click here.

Prof. Samer Faraj wins Best Publication of 2012 Award

Professor Samer Faraj is the winner of the Best Publication of 2012 Award, a joint award given by the Association of Information Systems and the International Conference on Information Systems for the following article: Faraj, S., Jarvenpaa, S. and Majchrzak, A. et al., Organization Science. “Knowledge collaboration in online communities.”

Source: McGill Desautels website

Talk on Complex Collaboration

Video of my talk on complex collaboration in trauma at oil&gas conference. Turns out collaboration issues are similar.