Faculty News
Jan 31 2011
Texas Christian University honors James I. Cash Jr.
Texas Christian University recently honored James I. Cash, Jr., the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, who starred on the TCU basketball team from 1967 to 1969 while also earning Academic All-America honors and who was the first African American to play in the Southwest Conference. One of only 30 players in TCU history to reach the 1,000-point milestone, he ranks fifth on the school's all-time scoring list and fourth in career rebounds. He helped lead TCU to the 1967-68 conference championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament. In 1984, he was inducted into the TCU Letterman's Hall of Fame.
Jan 31 2011
2010 Distinguished Paper Award
Assistant Prof. Lauren Cohen and Associate Prof. Christopher Malloy, along with the University of Chicago's Andrea Frazzini, have received a 2010 Distinguished Paper Award from the editors of the Journal of Finance for "Sell Side School Ties." Making use of novel data on the college and university backgrounds of sell-side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, the paper tests the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior corporate officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of research. The authors conclude that these analysts outperform on their stock recommendations when they have an educational link to a company.
Jan 31 2011
Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior
Professors of Management Practice Robert Eccles and Bill George and Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration and Chair/Director of Harvard's Inter-Faculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, have been selected as Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior by Trust Across America, an organization that provides a framework for public companies to improve trustworthy business practices and that showcases role models exhibiting high levels of trust and integrity. To compile this list, Trust Across America sought the counsel of and requested nominations from more than 150 professionals across the country.
Dec 31 2010
2010 Accenture Award
Michael L Tushman, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Lecturer J. Bruce Harreld, along with Stanford Professor Charles O'Reilly, have won the 2010 Accenture Award for their article "Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities" (California Management Review, 2009). The annual award recognizes the author (or authors) of the article published in the preceding volume of CMR that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.
Dec 31 2010
Entrepreneur for the World Award
Baker Foundation Professor and Senior Associate Dean Howard H. Stevenson has received an Entrepreneur for the World Award from the World Entrepreneurship Forum. The awards are granted annually to "four international personalities in recognition of their remarkable entrepreneurial success and their commitment to society." Described by the Forum as "the founder of entrepreneurship as an academic field," Stevenson was lauded for his pioneering research and course development at HBS and for a body of work that has helped and influenced both academics and practitioners around the world.
Dec 31 2010
2010 James A. Hamilton Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives
Clayton M. Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration, has received the 2010 James A. Hamilton Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for the book The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 2009; coauthored with Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., and Jason Hwang, M.D.). Given annually, the award honors the most outstanding book of the year in management or healthcare.
Dec 30 2010
2010 Carnegie Mellon-William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award
Assistant Professor Vineet Kumar has received the 2010 Carnegie Mellon-William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award for his "Essays on Marketing for Emerging Technology Products and Services." The award is given each year to a dissertation that deals with issues and problems in management or management science and that has a strong applications orientation with accompanying theoretical or methodological developments.
Dec 23 2010
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press, 2010), by Professors Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin and former Research Associate Patrick G. Cullen, has been named one of the best business books of 2010 by Strategy + Business magazine. Based on extensive research, the book includes interviews with dozens of business school deans and executives and a detailed analysis of eleven top MBA programs According to the reviewer, Rethinking the MBA is honored because "its conclusions, grounded in data and assembled coherently, present a clear, persuasive case for change in business school curricula—and because they are likely to be taken seriously in management academia."
Dec 23 2010
2010 Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award
"Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance," coauthored by Senior Lecturer Scott A. Snook, has won the 2010 Emerald Literati Network Outstanding Paper Award, presented by Emerald Group Publishing Limited, a publisher of management research. The paper appeared in the Leadership & Organization Development Journal 30, no. 6 (2009).
Oct 18 2010
Honorable Mention
"Interactivity's Unanticipated Consequences for Marketers and Marketing," by John A. Deighton, the School's Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration, and Research Associate Leora Kornfeld, is the first runner-up and winner of an honorable mention for the best paper published in the Journal of Interactive Marketing in 2009. The article, which appeared in the winter 2009 issue of the journal, concludes that "while meaning making remains the central purpose of marketing communication, the shift from broadcasting to interaction within digital communities is moving the locus of control over meanings from marketer to consumer and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles."
Sep 08 2010
Emerging Scholar Award
Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division. The award recognizes "a stream of research that has substantial ONE content and that has been published in premier scholarly outlets. Additionally, evidence of future sustained research productivity will be necessary. Particular attention will be paid to the potential impact that such research may produce." Toffel conducts research on corporate environmental sustainability and examines companies' environmental, safety, and quality programs. He also examines information disclosure and seeks to understand why some companies are more transparent than others. In conjunction with that research, he is cofounder of MapEcos.org, a mapping Web site that provides government pollution data about thousands of facilities across the United States and gives them the opportunity to disclose information about their environmental management activities. Toffel's numerous articles have appeared in publications such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Environmental Science and Technology, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He teaches the award-winning second-year elective course Business and the Environment in the School's MBA program.
Aug 16 2010
Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award
Stephen A. Greyser, the School's Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, has received the 2010 Sports Marketing Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Marketing Association in recognition of his "distinguished career contributions to the scientific understanding of sports business." A member of the HBS faculty for over 40 years, he is an expert on sports management, brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, and nonprofit management. He has authored or coauthored 16 books, more than 300 case studies, and numerous articles. Greyser developed and taught the first course on the Business of Sports offered at a leading business school and coauthored the field's principal text and casebook. He continues to supervise MBA student field studies and serve as faculty advisor to the HBS Business of Sports Club. He now teaches his course at Harvard University's Extension School. Greyser has also been editorial board chairman of Harvard Business Review, executive director of the Marketing Science Institute, and president of the American Academy of Advertising.
Jul 29 2010
Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award
Felda Hardymon (MBA 1979), MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice, has received a Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The award recognizes NVCA members who have "dedicated their professional lives to creating and building successful and highly competitive venture firms as well as portfolio companies that have made a significant contribution to economic growth and innovation in the United States." A member of the HBS faculty for more than a decade, since 1981 Hardymon has also been a general partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where he has led the firm's investments in numerous startups in the software, communications, and retail sectors, including Staples and The Sports Authority. Before joining Bessemer, Hardymon worked at Business Development Services, Inc., the venture capital subsidiary of GE. Representing some 450 US venture capital firms, NVCA aims to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital in this country's economy while supporting entrepreneurial activity and innovation.
Jul 07 2010
Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award
Associate Professor Noam T. Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course, Founders' Dilemmas. Based on his research during the past decade, the popular course examines the early founding decisions that have important and often unexpected long-term consequences for both founders and their enterprises. He will formally receive the award at the Academy's annual meeting in Montreal in August. Wasserman received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Harvard University in 2002 and his MBA (with high distinction as a Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School in 1999.
Jun 02 2010
25 Year Consortium Fellow Research Excellence Award
Sunil Gupta, the School's Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and head of the Marketing Unit, was recognized by the American Marketing Association Foundation with the 25 Year Consortium Fellow Research Excellence Award for Scholarly Achievement and Contribution to Marketing Thought and Practice.
May 24 2010
Doctoral Awards for Excellence in Mentoring
Amy Edmondson, the School's Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, and Associate Professor Belén Villalonga have received this year's Doctoral Awards for Excellence in Mentoring. Established three years ago by doctoral students, the awards recognize HBS faculty "who exemplify a deep commitment to fostering the personal and professional development" of candidates for the Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) and the Ph.D (offered jointly with the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences). The selections are made by the students themselves. Finalists for the award included Dennis Campbell, Robin Greenwood, Christopher Marquis, Elie Ofek, Jeffrey Polzer, Ananth Raman, Willy Shih, Thomas Steenburgh, Toby Stuart, Michael Toffel, and Dennis Yao.
May 19 2010
D. Alfred N. & Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula
Forest L. Reinhardt, the School's John D. Black Professor, and Assistant Professor Michael W. Toffel have won the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula. Created by the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business, the award aims to encourage and support efforts to introduce or substantially upgrade sustainability courses and/or associated coursework into the curricula of business schools, both nationally and internationally. Reinhardt and Toffel were recognized for their second-year MBA elective Business and the Environment, which focuses on identifying and following through on opportunities to create business value from environmental and sustainability issues.
Apr 15 2010
European Corporate Governance Institute Fellow
Josh Lerner, the School's Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, has been named a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), an international nonprofit association that provides a forum for debate and dialogue among academics, legislators, and practitioners regarding major corporate governance issues with the intention of promoting best practice. Fellows are named in recognition of their demonstrated excellence or other outstanding achievements in the field of corporate governance. Lerner's most recent book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed-and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press, 2009) recently won the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the best book on entrepreneurship. It previously won the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Business, Management, and Finance category.
Mar 30 2010
Good Housekeeping's 125 "Women Who Changed Our Lives"
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School and Chair/Director of the Inter-Faculty Initiative on Advanced Leadership, has been named one of the 125 "women who changed our lives" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping for the magazine's 125th anniversary. She was cited for her "ground-breaking research on the toll of tokenism, work/family conflicts, fostering diversity, and the creation of successful organizations" which "has helped women become stronger, more strategic leaders." In addition, in late April she will be honored with the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals at their annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Mar 24 2010
LECG Outstanding Contributions to Financial Economics
Robert C. Merton, Harvard's John and Natty McArthur University Professor based at Harvard Business School and the 1997 Nobel laureate in the economic sciences, has received an award for outstanding contributions to financial economics from LECG, an independent economic consulting firm. Previous winners include Michael C. Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus.
Feb 10 2010
McKinsey Awards for Best Articles in Harvard Business Review
Gary P. Pisano, Willy C. Shih, and Clayton M. Christensen have won the 2009 McKinsey Awards from the Harvard Business Review and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Established in 1959, the annual awards recognize the best articles published each year in the magazine.
Feb 09 2010
Global Award for Entrepreneurship
Josh Lerner has been named the 2010 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship, widely regarded as the world's most prestigious prize in entrepreneurship research. The annual award was established in 1996 by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, and Sweden's Research Institute of Industrial Economics. Lerner will formally receive the award and deliver a lecture at a ceremony in Stockholm in May.
Jan 09 2010
Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award
Michael C. Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received the 2009 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association (AFA) Award for Excellence in Financial Economics. According to Jeremy Stein, the Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics at Harvard University, who chaired the AFA Selection Committee, Jensen's "research on agency theory, organizational design, and incentives has helped to define the modern paradigm for how both academics and practitioners think about many of the most fundamental issues in corporate finance, corporate governance, and law and economics, to name just a few of the fields that have been shaped by his thinking."
Jan 01 2010
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship Research
William Kerr and Ramana Nanda each received Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowships in Entrepreneurship Research at the Allied Social Science Association's recent annual meeting. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the largest and oldest North American foundation to focus on entrepreneurship, presents the awards annually to tenured or tenure-track junior faculty members whose research is recognized for its potential to make significant contributions to the body of literature in entrepreneurship.
Jan 01 2010
Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London
Robert C. Merton, Harvard's John and Natty McArthur University Professor based at Harvard Business School and the 1997 cowinner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in the Economic Sciences, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London in recognition of his distinguished work in fields of research influenced by the renowned Russian mathematician Andrei N. Kolmogorov (1903-1987).
Dec 15 2009
International Emmy Award for Best Documentary
Niall Ferguson, the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, has won an International Emmy Award for his four-part documentary, "The Ascent of Money" (2009), which examines the creation of the economic system by taking viewers on a global trek through the history of money. Ferguson was awarded Best Documentary at the 37th International Emmy Awards in New York City on Nov. 23.
Nov 05 2009
Directorship Magazine Awards
Jay Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at Harvard Business School, has been named by Directorship magazine to its Corporate Governance Hall of Fame, which recognizes "the outstanding achievements of those select individuals who have had an everlasting influence over corporate governance and the boardroom community." A member of the HBS faculty for more than 40 years, Lorsch has authored or coauthored more than a dozen books, including Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America's Corporate Boards and Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World. The magazine also named William W. George and Raymond V. Gilmartin, both Professors of Management Practice at HBS, and James I. Cash, Jr., the School's James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, to its Directorship 100 list, comprising "those 100 individuals who exert the most influence on the boardroom agenda."
Sep 17 2009
Special Award from the Institute for Public Relations
Stephen A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has received a special award for his contributions to public relations education and research from the Institute for Public Relations, a nonprofit organization that supports public relations research and its application to practice.
Aug 28 2009
Faculty Pioneer Award in Social Entrepreneurship
James E. Austin, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has been named a winner of a 2008 Faculty Pioneer Award in Social Entrepreneurship by Ashoka, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs, and the Aspen Institute, which equips business leaders for the 21st century with the vision and knowledge to integrate corporate profitability and social value.
