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Narayanaswamy Runner Up in Business Technology Management Institute Dissertation Competition
Ravi Narayanaswamy, a doctoral student in the Department of Management (Information Sysytems track), was recently named runner-up in the Business Technology Management (BTM) Institute Dissertation Competition. The award comes with a $5,000 stipend to support Narayanaswamy’s dissertation research, "Exploring the Dynamics between Information Technology and Business Managers: A Control Loss Perspective." The competition, which involved a multi-round review process, was open to any doctoral candidate from any accredited, doctoral-granting university (worldwide). Dr. Varun Grover and Dr. Ray Henry are co-chairs of Narayanaswamy’s dissertation committee.
BTM Institute is the world's largest knowledge-based community focused solely on business technology management, with global support from academics at institutions such as Michigan State University, the University of Oklahoma, Harvard University, Emory University, MIT, and the London School of Economics. Also supporting BTM are executives from Coca-Cola, General Motors, Shell Oil, Philip Morris, HBO, PepsiCo Inc., Eli Lilly, Bayer, IBM, Amtrak, United States GSA, Viacom, Xerox and Marriott as well as former officials from the European Parliament, U.S. Senate, World Bank, and the United Nations. The goal of BTM is to lead the industry in "Making Business and Technology One," and the Institute is the knowledge network that allows the next generation of leaders to learn from each other.
For more information on the BTM Institute, see http://www.btminstitute.org/.