{"id":115325,"date":"2016-08-05T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=115325"},"modified":"2016-08-05T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:23:37","slug":"analytically-eloquent-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/08\/analytically-eloquent-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Analytically Eloquent\u2019 Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alumna Margaret Luciano &#8217;15 Ph.D. (BUS) Continues to Win Recognition for Research<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Margaret Luciano<\/strong> was recently awarded the J. Richard Hackman Award for her Ph.D. dissertation. The award is given to a recent graduate whose work shows the greatest potential to advance the understanding of groups beyond one discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Luciano&#8217;s dissertation, &#8220;Unpacking the Dynamics of Cross-Unit Coordination: A Multi-Level Quasi-Experimental Investigation,&#8221; studied 2,357 hospital-patient transfers between units over a 16-week period and investigated the implications for patient care.<\/p>\n<p>She received the Hackman Award at the 2016 INGRoup conference in Helsinki, Finland in July. Her adviser, UConn Management Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.uconn.edu\/person\/john-mathieu\/\"><strong>John Mathieu<\/strong><\/a>, was also in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>At the award ceremony, Luciano&#8217;s dissertation was described as &#8220;theoretically sophisticated and interesting, methodologically rich and analytically eloquent.&#8221; Her research improved the work processes and quality of work life for hospital employees, improved patient quality of care and paid dividends to the hospital, the award committee concluded. &#8220;She not only advanced our science, but also our practice,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>Luciano is now an assistant professor of management at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Luciano \u201915 Ph.D. (management) was recently awarded the J. Richard Hackman Award for her Ph.D. dissertation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":115327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1862],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1861],"class_list":["post-115325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-busn"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-18 19:50:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/115327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115325"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=115325"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=115325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}