Accounting & Management
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Fabrizio Ferri won the 2009 Best Paper Award presented by the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association for his paper with David Maber "Say on Pay Vote and CEO Compensation: Evidence from the UK."
Karthik Ramanna received the 2008 Best Dissertation Award from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association for "The Implications of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting: Evidence from the Political Economy of Goodwill Accounting" (Ph.D. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007).
Robert S. Kaplan was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Waterloo in 2008.
Robert S. Kaplan received the Lifetime Award for Distinguished Contributions to Advancing the Management Accounting Profession from the Institute of Management Accountants in 2008.
Robert S. Kaplan received the 2008 Champion of Workplace Learning and Performance Award (with David P. Norton) from the American Society for Training and Development.
Robert S. Kaplan received the Seminal Contribution to Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association in 2007 for the book (with H. Thomas Johnson) Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (Harvard Business School Press, 1987).
Sharon P. Katz received the 2007 Best Dissertation Award from the American Accounting Association, Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, for "Earnings Management and Conservatism in the Transition between Private and Public Ownership: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 2006).
Sharon P. Katz won the 2007 Competitive Manuscript Award from the American Accounting Association and Best Paper in Private Equity at the 19th Annual Financial Economics and Accounting Conference for his paper "Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors."
Robert S. Kaplan was elected to the Accounting Hall of Fame in 2006 for giving "new life to cost accounting and revitaliz[ing] the role of accounting in business management and strategic planning." Established in 1950 at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, the Accounting Hall of Fame now comprises 80 honorees chosen annually by the organization's international board of electors.
Romana L. Autrey won the 2006 dissertation award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association for "Three Essays on Teams and Synergy." A unanimous selection of the award committee, her dissertation was praised for its "novelty, quality, and implications for theory and practice."
Robert S. Kaplan was selected for the Lifetime Contribution Award by the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association in 2005.