Green Management Mattered in Chicago
Susan E. Jackson
2009 Program Chair and 2010 President-Elect

Big Success
Record Attendance
AOM Live Learning Center
Lasting Impact on Scholarship 

Big Success. A year of incredible effort by hundreds of volunteers and the very dedicated AOM staff paid off handsomely: the 2009 conference was a huge success! Chicago was the perfect city for members to discuss their work, be stimulated by new ideas, reconnect with old friends, and establish new connections.  All of this was made possible by the 61 volunteers who served as Program and Professional Development Workshop (PDW) Chairs, the 5,465 people who served as reviewers, the 8,380 people who participated as presenters, session chairs, facilitators, discussants, caucus organizers, and so on, members of the Local Arrangements Committee, the AOM Greening Committee, and the entire AOM professional staff.   Thank you everyone!

Record Attendance. Despite difficult economic conditions worldwide, we saw an 8% increase in paid registrants for a total of 8,166. You can find photos of some of these happy registrants by visiting the 2009 Annual Meeting Website. Proposal submissions increased 10% over the prior year, reaching a total of 6,836. From these, the various Program and PDW Chairs created a total of 1,672 PDW and Scholarly sessions, including 34 sessions devoted to the All-Academy Theme, Green Management Matters.

AOM Live Learning Center. With so much to see and do, you probably were not able to attend every session of interest to you.  It’s not too late.  A total of 41 sessions were recorded and can now be viewed on the AOM Live Learning Center. To access these sessions, go to the AOM Live Learning Center at www.softconference.com/aom 

Lasting Impact on Scholarship. I hope everyone continues to consider the relevance of environmental issues for their own scholarship throughout the coming year. To stimulate your own thinking, be sure to see the column titled, “Concluding Remarks by the All-Academy Chair,“ by Andrew Hoffman.

Lasting Impact on AOM Operations. Besides its relevance to the scholarship of AOM members, Green Management Matters to AOM as an organization. This topic was the focus of an All-Academy Symposium titled, “Greening the Academy.” Elsewhere in this Newsletter, Mark Starik and Gordon Rands summarize the presentations made at that session. Looking ahead, I am confident that AOM’s efforts to show that Green Management Matters will be increasingly visible to members.