Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Charlotte L. Robertson: Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class.

Caroline M. Elkins: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was shortlisted for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Caroline M. Elkins: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was selected for the 2022 Books of the Year by History Today.

Caroline M. Elkins: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was selected for the 2022 Books of the Year by New Statesman.

Caroline M. Elkins: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was included in The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2022.

Mattias E. Fibiger: Received the 2022 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.

Mattias E. Fibiger: Received the 2022 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class's HBS experience.

Mattias E. Fibiger: Winner of the 2022 Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) for "A Diplomatic Counter-Revolution: Indonesian Diplomacy and the Invasion of East Timor" (Modern Asian Studies, March 2021).

David A. Moss: Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

Sophus A. Reinert: Received the 2021 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Journal of the European Economic Association.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2021: Recipient of a National Science Foundation Research Grant (No. 2116150, $329,925) for "Investing in Captivity: Financing the Transatlantic Slave Trade" with Anne Ruderman.

David A. Moss: Honored with the Ticonderoga Award for a Continental Vision in 2020.

Sophus A. Reinert: Received the 2020 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Sophus A. Reinert: Received the 2020 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class’s HBS experience.

Meg Rithmire: Received the 2020 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of the 2020 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of the 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Future of Work program for “The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee Caldwell.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2020: Finalist for the bi-annual Stephen Ellis Prize for the most innovative article in African Affairs for "Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective" with Ewout Frankema.

David A. Moss: Received the HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award in 2019.

Sophus A. Reinert: Recipient of the 2019 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Elective Curriculum.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of the 2019 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the Review of Economic Studies.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of a 2019 J-PAL European Social Inclusion Initiative Grant for “Teachers at Work: Preventing Social Exclusion of Immigrants” with Michela Carlana, Matti Sarvimaki, and Mikko Silliman.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2019: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “New Frontiers in the Study of Africa’s Economic Past.”

Alberto F. Cavallo: Winner of the 2018 Economics in Central Banking Award with Roberto Rigobon for the "Impact of the Billion Prices Project and PriceStats on Central Bank Policymaking."

Marco E. Tabellini: Won the 2018 European Economic Association Young Economist Award for the paper "Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility" with Michela Carlana.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of a grant from the UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai Gehring) in 2018.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2018: Recipient of a MITRE Faculty Research Award for “Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor.”

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2018: Winner of the International Economic History Association's triennial Dissertation Prize in the Twentieth Century category for "Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor."

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2017 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the School of Economics at Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Awarded the 2016-2017 HBS One Harvard Faculty Fellowship.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a National Science Foundation Trans-Atlantic Platform-Digging into Data Grant, 2017–2019.

Marco E. Tabellini: Recipient of a Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Program for “From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Shom Mazumder) in 2017.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Awarded the 2015 Roger F. Murray Prize from the Institute of Quantitative Finance.

Sophus A. Reinert: Received the 2016 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.

Gunnar Trumbull: Received the 2016 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Gunnar Trumbull: Received the 2016 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Named Douglas Drane Career Development Chair in Information Technology and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management, 2015–2018.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economics of Digitization Grant, 2015–2016.

Reshmaan N. Hussam: Recipient of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Research and Innovation Fellowship, 2014-2015.

Sophus A. Reinert: Winner of the 2015 Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Primary Source Award for Research for “The Way to Wealth Editions Project.”

Sophus A. Reinert: Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHistS) on July 1, 2014.

Meg Rithmire: Recipient of the 2015 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.

Meg Rithmire: Received the 2015 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a 3M Junior Faculty Grant from MIT Sloan School of Management, 2014–2016.

Gunnar Trumbull: Received the 2014 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2014: Recipient of a Dissertation Fellowship from the Economic History Association.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2014: Recipient of a Presidential Fellowship from Northwestern University, 2014–2016.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2012 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2013 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

Gunnar Trumbull: Received the 2013 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Gunnar Trumbull: Received the 2013 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2013: Winner of the Economic History Association's Arthur Cole Prize for best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012 for "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965" with Ewout Frankema.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2013: Winner of the Wageningen School of Social Sciences Publication Award for best article published in the social sciences in 2012 for “Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880-1965” (The Journal of Economic History) with Ewout Frankema.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2012 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Named the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2012–2015.

Reshmaan N. Hussam: Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2015.

Sophus A. Reinert: Awarded the 2012 George L. Mosse Prize for Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Sophus A. Reinert: Awarded the 2012 Joan Robinson Prize (formerly the EAEPE-Myrdal Prize) from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy for Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Sophus A. Reinert: Awarded the 2012 Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book in the history of economics for Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (Harvard University Press, 2011).

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2012: Winner of the Lacey Baldwin Smith Prize for Teaching Excellence.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2011 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Named BusinessWeek Innovator, February 2011.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a JFRAP Grant, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2011–2018.

Reshmaan N. Hussam: Recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, 2010-2012.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Research selected for inclusion in the New York Times 10th Annual Year in Ideas Issue, 2010.

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2010: Winner of the Prize for Best Master’s Thesis Completed at the Faculty of the Humanities at Utrecht University for “Living Standards in British Africa in a Comparative Perspective, 1880–1945: Is Poverty Destiny?”

Marlous van Waijenburg: 2010: Winner of the IISG-Volkskrant Thesis Prize for the best historical master’s thesis completed in the Netherlands from the International Institute for Social History and the national newspaper, de Volkskrant, for “Living Standards in British Africa in a Comparative Perspective, 1880–1945: Is Poverty Destiny?”

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University, 2009–2010.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received the C.V. Starr Scholarship, Harvard University, 2009-2010.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a Real Estate Academic Initiative Grant, Harvard University, 2009.

David A. Moss: Received the 2009 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, Harvard University, Spring 2008.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a Warburg Funds Grant, Harvard University, Spring 2008–2009.

Reshmaan N. Hussam: Selected as a Burchard Scholar in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at MIT, 2007-2008.

Alberto F. Cavallo: Received a Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates, Harvard University, Fall 2007.

Caroline M. Elkins: Finalist for the 2006 Lionel Gelber Prize for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, 2005).

Caroline M. Elkins: Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya (Henry Holt, 2005).

David A. Moss: Received the 2005-2006 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2004 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum.

David A. Moss: Winner of the 2004 Kulp-Wright Book Award for When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (Harvard University Press, 2002), presented by the American Risk and Insurance Association for the book considered to be the most influential text published on the economics of risk management and insurance.

Rawi E. Abdelal: Winner of the 2002 Marshall Shulman Prize for Outstanding Book on International Relations for National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2001).

Rawi E. Abdelal: Received the 2002 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

David A. Moss: Winner of the Editors' Prize for the Best Article of 1999 from American Bankruptcy Law Journal for "The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both" (with Gibbs A. Johnson, spring 1999).

Rawi E. Abdelal: Winner of the Harrison Prize for Best Article Published in Political Studies during 1998 for "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992" (June 1998).