Strategy
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Tarun Khanna was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009.
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao received a 2009 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence for the paper "Diversification of Chinese Companies - An International Comparison" (Chinese Management Studies, 2008).
The paper "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?" by David J. Collis and the late Michael G. Rukstad was the first-place co-winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2008.
David J. Collis was selected as the Outstanding Reviewer for Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management in 2008.
Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar's paper "(Noisy) Communication" (2007) was selected as runner-up for the 2008 Dick Wittink Prize for Best Paper in Quantitative Marketing and Economics.
Tarun Khanna has been nominated as a Young Global Leader 2007 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." This year's group was chosen from a pool of more than 4,000 candidates.
Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg have been awarded the 2007 James A. Hamilton Award by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) for Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2006). Given annually, the award honors a management or healthcare book deemed most outstanding.
Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf's paper entitled "Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess?" was selected by the subscribers of the Journal of Financial Economics as the Second Prize winner of the Jensen Prize for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance and Organizations published in the JFE during 2006.
David Collis was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management at the August 2005 Annual Conference of the Academy of Management in Honolulu, Hawaii. This award is given to a reviewer of papers submitted to the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management. It is the fourth time he has won this award.
Jan Rivkin, Lee Fleming, and Olav Sorenson received the 2005 Prize for Best Paper at the 4th European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics for "Complexity and the Diffusion of Knowledge." The paper was published as "Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flow" in Research Policy (2006) and was Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 04-027 (2003). The prize is sponsored by the International Schumpeter Society.
Michael E. Porter received the 2005 John Kenneth Galbraith Medal from the American Agricultural Economics Association in recognition of his "breakthrough discoveries in economics and outstanding contributions to humanity through leadership, research, and service." The medal is presented annually to an individual whose writings and contributions to policymaking have changed the way people think and governments operate.
Michael E. Porter became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.
Michael E. Porter was honored as the 2005 Distinguished Contributor to Case Research and Teaching by the North American Case Research Association.