Entrepreneurial Management
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Paul Marshall received an honorary professorship from Xiamen University in 2009.
Josh Lerner received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Munich in 2009.
Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley won the 2008 Pearson/Prentice Hall Prize for Best Paper in Financial Management for the paper (with James R. Hines Jr.) "Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm" (2007).
Mary Tripsas has won the 2008 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Thought Leader Award for her paper with Sonali Shah, "The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship" Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2007).
Toby Stuart was the winner of the 2008 Greiff Research Impact Award for his paper with Scott Shane, "Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups," Management Science 48, no. 1 (2001): 154-170.
Thomas K. McCraw's Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (Harvard University Press, 2007) was the winner of both the 2008 Hagley Prize for "Best Book in Business History," awarded by the Business History Conference, and the 2007 Joseph J. Spengler Award for "Best Book in the History of Economics," awarded by the History of Economics Society. The book was also named Best Capitalism Book of 2007 by strategy + business (s+b) magazine. The s+b reviewer said "...if you have time to read just one book in this category, McCraw's Prophet of Innovation, a brilliant study of a brilliant economist who experienced for himself the acute political and cultural tensions of capitalism, should be your choice."
Mihir A. Desai was the Second Place Winner of the 2007 Jensen Prize for Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of Corporate Finance and Organization for his paper with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales, "Theft and Taxes," Journal of Financial Economics, 84, no. 3 (June 2007).
Howard Stevenson was given a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Université de Montréal in 2007.
Arthur Segel was voted "One of the Top 20 Most Influential People in Real Estate in the World" by Private Equity Real Estate Magazine in 2007.
Toby E. Stuart won the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. The medal is given every two years to one scholar under the age of 40 whose body of research has made a significant contribution to the field of entrepreneurship.
Myra Hart, along with the four other members of the "Diana Group"--Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia Greene, received the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award for research on entrepreneurship and small business. The Diana Group is a team of researchers from several institutions who work together to investigate the unique challenges and opportunities of female entrepreneurs. The FSF-NUTEK Award is an international prize given annually by the Swedish Business Development Agency and the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF).
William Kerr was named a fellow of the 2006-2007 Innovation Policy and the Economy Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Noam Wasserman's paper, "Rich vs. King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," was selected for the 2006 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Toby E. Stuart, with Jesper B. Sørensen, won the 2006 Administrative Science Quarterly Award for Scholarly Contributions for the paper "Aging, Obsolescence, and Organizational Innovation" Administrative Science Quarterly45 (March 2000). The Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) Award for Scholarly Contribution was established in 1995 to recognize authors of papers published in ASQ that have made exceptional contributions to the field of organization studies and is given annually for the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier.
Joe Lassiter was made a First Trust Bank Chair of Innovation at Queen's University, Belfast, in 2006. The chair program, sponsored by First Trust Bank and Invest NI, brings world experts in innovation to Northern Ireland to share their insights and knowledge with local business audiences.
Mary Tripsas, with Nancy Staudenmayer and Christopher Tucci, won a 2006 Citation for Excellence Award from Emerald Group Publishing and the Journal of Product Management for "Inter-firm Modularity and the Implications for Product Development." Journal of Product Innovation Management 22, no. 4 (July 2005). The award recognizes the top 50 articles out of the twenty thousand included in the Emerald Management database.
Mary Tripsas has won the 2005 Thomas P. Hustad Best Paper Award from the
Mukti Khaire's paper, "Great Oaks from Little Acorns Grow: Strategies for New Venture Growth," was selected for the 2005 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Teresa Amabile, along with co-authors Elizabeth Schatzel, Giovanni Moneta, and Steven Kramer, received the 2005 "Best Paper of the Year" award from the Leadership Quarterly for "Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support" Leadership Quarterly 15, no. 1 (February 2004).
Geoffrey Jones was awarded the Wadsworth prize by the Business Archives Council for the most outstanding book published on British business history in 2005 for his book Renewing Unilever:Transformation and Tradition (Oxford University Press)