Entrepreneurial Management
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Thomas R. Eisenmann received a 2011 ECCH (European Case Clearing House) Case Award in the area of Strategy and General Management for his case with Benjamin G. Edelman, "Google Inc. (Abridged)," Harvard Business School Case 910-036. He also received a 2011 ECCH Case Award in the area of Entrepreneurship for his case with Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, and Brian Feinstein, "Facebook's Platforms," Harvard Business School Case 808-128. The ECCH awards are "presented annually to recognise worldwide excellence in case writing and to raise the profile of the case method of learning."
Howard H. Stevenson received the 2010 Entrepreneur for the World Award from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in the Expert category. Stevenson was described by the Forum as "the founder of entrepreneurship as an academic field" and 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.
G. Felda Hardymon has received the 2010 Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) in recognition of both his professional and academic work in the field.
Noam Wasserman received the 2010 Academy of Management Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award for his course, "Founders' Dilemmas."
Josh Lerner won the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the best book on entrepreneurship for 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).
Josh Lerner has been named the 2010 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship for his "pioneering research into venture capital and venture capital-backed entrepreneurship. Among his most important contributions is the synthesis of the fields of finance and entrepreneurship. He has also made several important contributions in the area of entrepreneurial innovation, spanning issues relating to alliances, patents, and open-source project development." 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.
Charles O'Reilly, Mike Tushman, and Bruce Harreld won the 2010 Accenture Award for the article "Organizational Ambidexterity: IBM and Emerging Business Opportunities" (California Management Review, 2009). The Accenture Award is given each year to the author (or authors) of the article published in the preceding volume of the California Management Review that has made the most important contribution to improving the practice of management.
Josh Lerner won the 2009 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Business, Finance, & Management category for 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). This award is given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.
Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley were runners-up for the 2009 Review of Financial Studies-Michael Brennan Best Paper Award for the paper (with Kristin J. Forbes) "Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Depreciations" in Review of Financial Studies (2008).
Paul W. 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.
Paul A. Gompers, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein won the Second Place 2008 Fama-DFA (Dimensional Fund Advisors) Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for the paper (with Anna Kovner) "Venture capital investment cycles: the impact of public markets" (Volume 87, Issue 1, January 2008).
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 E. 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 H. Stevenson was given a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Université de Montréal in 2007.
Arthur I 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 M. 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).