Technology & Operations Management
Awards & Honors
Recent Awards
Clayton M. Christensen is the winner of the McKinsey Award for best article in Harvard Business Review during 2010 for his paper, "How Will You Measure Your Life?"
Michael W. Toffel has won the 2010 Emerging Scholar Award from the Academy of Management's Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division. The award recognizes "a stream of research that has substantial ONE content and that has been published in premier scholarly outlets."
Clayton M. Christensen received the 2010 James A. Hamilton Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives for the book (with Jerome H. Grossman M.D. and Jason Hwang M.D.) The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Given annually, the award honors a management or healthcare book deemed most outstanding.
Clayton M. Christensen received the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award for Disruptive Innovation at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Michael W. Toffel and Forest Reinhardt 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."
Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih were the First Place winners of the McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2009 for the paper "Restoring American Competitiveness."
Ananth Raman received the 2009 Service Award from the Production and Operations Management Society.
Steven C. Wheelwright received an honorary professorship from Xiamen University in 2009.
Clayton M. Christensen received the Second Place McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2009 for the paper (with Jeffrey H. Dyer and Hal B. Gregersen) "The Innovator's DNA."
Clayton M. Christensen received the 2009 Big Picture Award in recognition of his work in the field of disruptive innovation in public education. This was the inaugural award for creative innovation in education given by Big Picture Learning.
Amy C. Edmondson received the 2008 Award for Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship from the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, for the paper (with Ingrid Marie Nembhard) "Making It Safe: The Effects of Leader Inclusiveness and Professional Status on Psychological Safety and Improvement Efforts in Health Care Teams," Journal of Organizational Behavior (2006).
Kristina Steffenson McElheran's paper "Market Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities" was selected for the 2008 Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.
Clayton M. Christensen was named second-place winner of the McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2008 for the paper (with Mark W. Johnson and Henning Kagermann) "Reinventing Your Business Model."
Karim R. Lakhani has won the inaugural Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich) Research Excellence Award from the Peter Pribilla Foundation in 2008 for outstanding research contributions in the field of innovation and leadership by an upcoming scholar. He was recognized for his research on distributed innovation in settings like open source software and scientific problem solving. The international jury responsible for the award noted that his co-authored paper (with Lars Bo Jeppesen) "Broadcast Search in Problem Solving: Attracting Solutions from the Periphery" represented a significant accomplishment in research and relevance to practice.
Rob Austin and Richard Nolan won the 2008 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for their paper "Bridging the Gap Between Stewards and Creators" (Volume 48 of MIT Sloan Management Review). The prize is awarded to the authors of the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development published in the previous year.
Lee Fleming and Matt Marx have won the 2007 Accenture Award for the article "Managing Creativity in Small Worlds." California Management Review 48, no. 4 (summer 2006). 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.
Gary P. Pisano's Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech has been named 2007 Best Biotech Book by strategy+business.