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2026-2027 AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges Committee

Thank you to the AACSB* for generously supporting the AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges!

Nominations Deadline: January 31 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time
 

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Charge

Carry out all activities to select the recipient of the AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges Committee which is presented at the AAA Global Connect. Specifically:

• Actively seek and submit nominations.
• Review and evaluate nominations and select one recipient of the award based on the award criteria.
• The Board of Directors Liaison may attend committee meetings but may not vote in the committee's deliberations.
• The Chair writes a thank you email to the award sponsor representative (AACSB) for their support of the award.
• The Chair must submit at least one report per year to the Board of Directors. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison, and Professional Staff Liaison, Barbara Gutierrez at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org.
• The Chair and award sponsor representative (AACSB) present the award at the AAA Global Connect.
• The Chair moderates a 90-minute concurrent session of the AAA Global Connect during which recipient of the award present their research.
• If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the Committee's Board of Directors Liaison.

*While the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is a proud sponsor of the AAA-AACSB-RRBM Award for Research Impacting Societal Challenges, the AACSB has no role in the selection of the award recipients.

Committee Composition/Required Knowledge and Expertise/Conflict of Interest Rules

• Committee members plus a voting Chair are appointed annually prior to the Global Connect by the Council Committee on Awards Committee.
• The Committee consists of seven members, including a voting Chair.
• The committee Chair should be an accomplished scholar who maintains an active research program with societal impact (for example, with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)/sustainability implications), and has published papers in, and has reviewed for, refereed accounting journals.
• The remaining 6 committee members should be accomplished scholars who have a wide range of expertise, who are knowledgeable about research that has societal impact and have ideally published research in this area or members from practice who have an appreciation for, and understanding of, research with societal impact, and the implications of the findings for practitioners, regulators, and other stakeholders; at least one member must be a practitioner.¹
• Current Committee members who are nominated for the award will be asked to either recuse themselves from the Committee or remove their nomination from consideration.

¹ The potential pool of practitioners includes, but is not limited to, (1) public accounting practitioners (e.g., in audit, consulting, tax) with a range of expertise in ESG/sustainability-services; and (2) ESG/sustainability experts invited to participate as guest speakers and panelists at the annual AAA/ESG Sustainability Conference.

Members

Committee Roles & Responsibilities Timeline

• Questions? Please contact Barbara Gutierrez, Professional Staff Liaison, at barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org.