Carey Business School Professor Adam Seth Litwin Awarded First Prize in Sloan Dissertation Competition
Dr. Adam Seth Litwin, an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, has won first prize in the 2009 Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award competition of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Litwin’s dissertation examined the adoption and diffusion of electronic health record systems. He found that few physicians were making the transition from paper-based to electronic record keeping, because they were not positioned to realize returns on the required investment in information technology.
Gail M. Pesyna, program director for the Sloan Foundation, said Litwin’s dissertation “was chosen for recognition from among a remarkable collection of industry studies research, which represents the efforts of the field’s most promising new scholars.”
In a letter announcing the award to Carey Business School faculty, staff, and students, Dean Yash Gupta said, “Professor Litwin’s finding has advanced theory on the interplay of human capital and technological capital in production, which has important implications as we examine how health care will be delivered and managed in the future.”
The Sloan Foundation’s review committee of senior scholars noted that they were “particularly impressed by the extensive nature of [Litwin’s] research and the depth of [his] understanding of the health care industry – an area of immense and growing importance.”
The review committee members were Ashish Arora of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business; Amy Edmondson of the Harvard Business School; Fiona Scott Morton of the Yale School of Management; Catherine Wolfram of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; and Valerie Thomas of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Litwin joined the Carey Business School faculty in 2008. He earned his doctorate at the Institute for Work and Employment Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. In addition, he has earned degrees from the London School of Economics and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His expertise is in the areas of strategic human resources management and employment relations.
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