Business, Government & the International Economy
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Aldo Musacchio won the 2011 Strategic Management Society Best Paper award for his paper with Sergio G. Lazzarini, "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003" (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-073, January 2011).
Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel have won the 2009 D. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Grand Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for their HBS Elected Curriculum course, "Business and the Environment."
Louis T. Wells's Third World Multinationals (The MIT Press, 1983) was selected for a special commemorative panel at the 2008 European International Business Academy (EIBA) conference.
Matthew C. Weinzierl was selected for the twentieth annual Review of Economic Studies European Meetings in 2008. Each year, "seven of the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance in the world are selected to present their research to audiences in Europe" by the Review. He presented his paper "The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes."
Aldo Musacchio won the 2008 Arthur H. Cole Prize for best paper in the Journal of Economic History for his paper "Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil" in Journal of Economic History (March 2008).
Laura Alfaro was selected as a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor, bestowed annually, recognizes a group of 250 top leaders in business, government, academia, and the media--all below the age of 41--for "their professional accomplishments, their commitment to society, and their potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world."