Professor Denise M. Rousseau will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Management Science and Technology of AUEB on March 7th, 2013.

Denise M. Rousseau, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Department of Management Science and Technology on March 7th, 2013. The ceremony will take place at the amphitheater of the Gennadius Library "Cotsen Hall" at 18.00.

Professor Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III College and the Tepper School of Business. She was the 2004-2005 President of the Academy of Management, the most prestigious Academic Association in the field of Management, and the 1998-2007 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, one of the most prominent academic journals in the fields of Organizational Behavior/Psychology.

In 2009, she received the Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management; in 2011 she received the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management. She has been a two-time winner of the Academy of Management's prestigious George Terry Award for the best book in the field of Management.

She is the founder of the Evidence-Based Management Collaborative and Chair of the Academic Council of the Centre for Evidence-Based Management (CEBMa), established in Amsterdam as the first formal organization with the aim of promoting evidence-based practice in the field of management. The CEBMa provides support and resources to managers, consultants, teachers, academics and others interested in learning more about evidence-based management. Her most recent book is the Oxford Handbook of Evidence-Based Management (2012). The HR Magazine (UK) recently ranked her amongst the top-10 most influential "International Thinkers" in the field of Human Resources Management for 2012.

The ceremony will be broadcast via live streaming.