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Past OS Honors Theses
Class of 2012
Claire Baker: Bridging the Gaps: A Case Study on the Implementation of Educational Technologies in High School
Maor Cohen: Fermenting Innovation: Talk is not Cheap and Valuing Leads to Value
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen: Diffusion, Adoption, and Adaptation: An Organizational History of El Sistema in the United States
Randy Limberg: Group-Size and Inequality-Aversion
Class of 2011
Class of 2010
Maya Burns: Impacts of Perceived Discrimination on African American Girls in the Transition to Middle School
Patricia Chen: Yin and Yang Theory of Competition: Social Comparison and Evaluation Apprehension Reciprocally Drive Competitive Motivation
Erica Jankelovitz: Institutional Peer Pressure: Why Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Organizations Participate in the Orphan Drug Act (1983)
Elizabeth Lai: From Perception to Policy: The Metaphors of US Counterterrorism
Danielle Wright: When the sentence is over, is it really over?
Class of 2008
Justin Benson: The Motivational Power of a Public Service Mission: Influences on its Effectiveness Among Public Sector Employees
Jenna Brubaker: “It’s Definitely an Uphill Battle”: The Process of Innovation Implementation in the Context of School-Based Child Obesity Programs
Alexander Nichols: Barriers to Public Assistance for Hispanic Immigrants in the United States
Lindsey Rogers: Governing the Global Commons: International Environmental Agreements and the North/South Divide
Class of 2007
Justin Berg: Coping with Passion: Crafting Work and Leisure to Answer a Missed Calling*
Grace Chen: The Meaning of Meaningful Work: Subject-Object Meaningfulness in Knowledge Work
Joey DeBartolo: Quality Differences in the Receipt of Long-term Home Care
Perry Teicher: Changing a Paradigm: Centralization in a Decentralized System
*Justin Berg's further-developed version of his thesis was published in Organization Science, with Professor Victoria Johnson as a co-author
Class of 2006
Tara Thomas: Identity and Power in Public Goods
Class of 2005
Mel Beras: The Transformation of the Status of Women in Eastern and Central Europe during the First Post-Communist Decade
Kathryn Wheeler: Nurse Staffing and Resident Outcomes: National and State-Level Analyses


