General Management
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was given the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus for her work on removing barriers to women's inclusion in the corporate and public worlds and for personal service as advisor to Governors and other public officials on economic issues.
Christopher A. Bartlett received a 2011 ECCH (European Case Clearing House) Case Award in the area of Economics, Politics and Business Environment for his case, "Philips versus Matsushita: The Competitive Battle Continues," Harvard Business School Case 910-410. He also won, along with Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjöman, the ECCH Case Award in the area of Ethics and Social Responsibility for the case, "IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)," Harvard Business School Case 906-414. The ECCH awards are "presented annually to recognise worldwide excellence in case writing and to raise the profile of the case method of learning."
Rebecca Henderson won the 2010 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Award from the Strategic Management Society for her paper with Ian Cockburn, "Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research" (Strategic Management Journal, 1994). The award is for a paper published five or more years prior so that the paper's impact on teaching, research, and/or practice can be assessed.
Alnoor S. Ebrahim's paper with V. Kasturi Rangan, "Putting the Brakes on Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance," was included in the 2010 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. The paper was also runner-up for the 2010 Carlo Masini Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.
In 2010, William Kirby received an honorary Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen's book Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press, 2010) was selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books of 2010.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter has been named one of the 125 "women who changed our lives" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue celebrating 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."
Rosabeth Moss Kanter's book Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good (Crown, 2009) was picked by editors at Amazon.com as one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2009.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree by Aalborg University, Denmark, in November 2008.
Joseph L. Bower's The CEO Within (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) was selected as one of the Financial Times Top Ten Books of 2007.