Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Bharat N. Anand: Winner of the 2023 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School.

Raffaella Sadun: Included in the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on management thinking in the future."

Alexander J. MacKay: Awarded the 2022 Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Best Paper in Antitrust Economics at the International Industrial Organization Conference for "Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences" with Hendrik Döpper, Nathan H. Miller, and Joel Stiebale.

Frank Nagle: Received a GitHub Research Grant in 2022.

Frank Nagle: Received a Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2022.

Maria P. Roche: Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian Peukert.

Raffaella Sadun: Awarded the Premio Fondazione de Sanctis for excellence in economics research in 2022.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) for Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (PublicAffairs, 2020).

Frank Nagle: Strategy Research Forum Member, 2021.

Maria P. Roche: Winner of the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management.

Maria P. Roche: Winner of the 2021 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and the Journal of Management Studies.

Raffaella Sadun: Recipient of the Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine "Al merito della Repubblica Italiana" in 2021.

Raffaella Sadun: Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.

Rebecca A. Karp: “Gaining Organizational Adoption: Discovering New Uses for Existing Innovations” was selected for publication in the 2020 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Rebecca A. Karp: Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “From Conceptual to Commercial: How Novel Innovations Gain Market Traction.”

Rebecca A. Karp: Won the 2020 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management for outstanding paper based on a recent dissertation for "Gaining Organizational Adoption: Discovering New Uses for Existing Innovations."

Frank Nagle: "Jack of All Trades and Master of Knowledge: The Role of Generalists in Novel Knowledge Integration" with Florenta Teodoridis (Strategic Management Journal, January 2020) was selected for inclusion in the 2019 Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Frank Nagle: Received a Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2020.

Frank Nagle: Recipient of a Sloan Foundation Grant for "Tracking the Diffusion of High- and Low- Quality Science Through Digital Media" with Florenta Teodoridis in 2020.

Ashish Nanda: Named C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in 2020.

Maria P. Roche: Recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2019–2021.

David J. Collis: Recognized as one of the Top One Hundred Most Influential Textbook Authors by the Academy of Management Learning and Education in 2018.

David J. Collis: Recognized as one of the Top Twenty-five Best-selling Case Authors (out of over 8,000 authors) for The Case Centre in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times.

Frank Nagle: Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, Term-Member, 2019.

Jan W. Rivkin: Finalist for the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Cognitive Framing and Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati, and Ryan Raffaelli.

Jan W. Rivkin: Winner of the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference Best Research Methods Paper Award for “Cognitive Framing and Capability Development at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ranjay Gulati, and Ryan Raffaelli.

Maria P. Roche: Winner of the 2019 Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Award from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech.

Maria P. Roche: Winner of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Best Student Paper Award at the 19th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) Conference in 2019.

Andy Wu: Included as one of the “Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants in 2019.

David B. Yoffie: Recognized as one of the Top Five Bestselling Case Authors (out of over 8,000 authors) for The Case Centre in 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19.

Bharat N. Anand: Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal for the Best Book in the Business Theory category for The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change, (Random House, 2016).

Rebecca A. Karp: Recipient of the Questrom Teaching Award from Boston University in 2018.

Rebecca A. Karp: Recipient of a 2018 Dissertation Research Program Award and Grant from the Strategic Research Foundation at the Strategic Management Society for "What Kind of Village Fosters Venture Development?"

Frank Nagle: Winner of the 2018 Best Paper Award from the Innovation Strategic Interest Group at the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference for "Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods" (Organization Science, July–August 2018).

Frank Nagle: Received a Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative Grant with Karim Lakhani in 2018.

Raffaella Sadun: Winner of the first-place HBR McKinsey Award for the Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 2017 for "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” with Nicholas Bloom and John Van Reenen.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2018 Best Conference Paper Award from the Behavioral Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society with Sourobh Ghosh for "Iterative Coordination and Innovation" (HBS Working Paper, No. 20-121, January 2020).

Andy Wu: Recipient of the 2018 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2018 European Group for Organization Studies (EGOS) Andreas Al-Laham Best Paper Award with Shelby Gai and J. Yo-Jud Cheng for “Intra-Organizational Brokerage Ability and Motivation: Inter-Board-Committee Coordination after Peer Restatement Events.”

Andy Wu: Awarded the 2018 PhD Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference with Sourobh Ghosh for "Iterative Coordination and Innovation" (HBS Working Paper, No. 20-121, January 2020).

Andy Wu: Received Honorable Mention for the 2018 Best Conference Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society with Sourobh Ghosh for "Iterative Coordination and Innovation" (HBS Working Paper, No. 20-121, January 2020).

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2018 Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Winner of Aspen Institute’s 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with George Serafeim.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Awarded the 2017 Viipuri Prize for outstanding research in the field of strategic management. The prize is awarded every two years by the Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) School of Business and Management.

Frank Nagle: Winner of the 2017 Best Conference Paper from the Knowledge and Innovation Group at the Strategic Management Society Conference for “Learning By Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods.”

Frank Nagle: Recipient of a 2017 USC Institute for Outlier Research in Business Funding Grant for "Digital Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Outlier Behavior in the Mobile App Ecosystem" with Shelley Li, Milan Miric, Pai-Ling Yin, and Noam Wasserman.

Frank Nagle: Winner of the 2017 LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge with Shelley Li, Milan Miric, Pai-Ling Yin, and Noam Wasserman.

Frank Nagle: Recipient of a 2017 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digitization Grant from the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.

Frank Nagle: Selected as Outstanding Track Associate Editor at the 2017 International Conference on Information Systems.

Frank Nagle: Nominated for the 2017 Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize for “Learning By Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods.”

Andy Wu: Finalist for the 2017 Best Dissertation Award from Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management.

Andy Wu: Selected as a 2017-2018 Batten Fellow at the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2017 Industry Studies Association Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship with Jiamin Zhang for "Entrepreneurial Access to Market and Non-Market Resources: Chinese Venture Capital and High-Speed Rail."

Andy Wu: Finalist for the 2017 Heizer Dissertation Award in New Enterprise Development from the Academy of Management for “Organizational Resource Assembly in Technology Ventures” (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016).

Andy Wu: Finalist for the 2017 Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for “Organizational Resource Assembly in Technology Ventures” (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2016).

Juan Alcacer: Recipient of the 2016 Michigan Ross Distinguished PhD Alumni Award.

Bharat N. Anand: Winner of the 2016 Case Centre Award in the Marketing category for “The New York Times Paywall” with Vineet Kumar, Sunil Gupta, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee (HBS Case 512-077).

Tarun Khanna: Winner of the 2016 Strategy & Eminent Scholar Award “for his lifetime achievement in international management scholarship" from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Frank Nagle: “Learning By Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods” was selected in 2016 for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Frank Nagle: Finalist for the 2016 Best Paper Award from the Academy of Management's Technology and Innovation Management Division for “Learning By Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods.”

Frank Nagle: Finalist for the 2016 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and the Journal of Management Studies.

Frank Nagle: Runner up for the 2016 INFORMS TIMES Best Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Frank Nagle: Recipient of USC Marshall Seed Funding from the Lord Foundation in 2016 for Marshall Digitopolis.

Ashish Nanda: Awarded Bharat Asmita Acharya Shreshta for Teaching by Maharashtra Institute of Technology University, Pune, India, 2016.

Ashish Nanda: Named 10th Distinguished Global Thinker by IILM, New Delhi, India, 2016.

Andy Wu: “Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners” was selected in 2016 for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2016 Dr. Andy Binns Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate and Professional Student Life at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andy Wu: Received Mack Institute for Innovation Management Research Grants from 2012 to 2016 at the Wharton School.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2016 Robert J. Litschert Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for the best paper authored by a doctoral student.

Andy Wu: Received Honorable Mention for the 2016 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management for outstanding papers based on a recent dissertation.

Bharat N. Anand: Received the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Ashish Nanda: Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2015.

Andy Wu: Received a 2015 INSEAD-Wharton Center for Global Research and Education Grant.

Andy Wu: Received a Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in 2015.

Andy Wu: Received a 2015 Russell Ackoff Doctoral Student Fellowship at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center.

Andy Wu: Winner of Social Enterprise at Goizueta Research Colloquium Best Paper in 2015.

Andy Wu: Finalist for the 2015 Best Conference Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society.

David B. Yoffie: Overall winner of the 2015 Case Centre Awards and Competitions for “Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 711-462) and also winner in the Strategy and General Management category for “Apple Inc. in 2012” with Penelope Rossano (HBS Case 712-490).

Frank Nagle: "Drivers and Dynamics of Online Word of Mouth" with Christoph Riedl was selected in 2014 for publication in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.

Frank Nagle: Finalist for the 2014 Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize for "Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity."

Frank Nagle: Winner of the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research in 2014.

Andy Wu: Winner of the 2014 Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students, University of Pennsylvania.

Andy Wu: Winner of a 2014 President Gutmann Leadership Award, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, University of Pennsylvania.

Andy Wu: Received a 2014 Wharton Doctoral Travel Grant.

Juan Alcacer: Awarded Best Paper at the DRUID 2013 Conference in Barcelona, Spain, for "Spatial Organization of Firms: Location Choices through the Value Chain" (with Mercedes Delgado).

Juan Alcacer: Received the Meritorious Service Award from Management Science in 2013 for excellence in quality and timeliness of editorial work, in the role of Associate Editor.

David J. Collis: “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” (with Michael G. Rukstad, April 2008) was selected by the editors at Harvard Business Review for the 2013 HBR OnPoint issue entitled, “Turn Smart Strategy into Winning Performance,” due to the article’s timely relevance in today’s workplace.

David J. Collis: Elected a fellow of The International Academy of Management in 2013 in recognition of an outstanding international contribution to the science and art of management.

Raffaella Sadun: Named a Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research in 2013.

Raffaella Sadun: Named Harvard Business School Richard Hodgson Fellow in 2013.

David B. Yoffie: Elected 2013 Fellow of The International Academy of Management due to outstanding contribution to science and management.

David J. Collis: In 2012, Harvard Business Review ranked “Competing on Resources: Strategy in the 1990s” (with Cynthia Montgomery) as one of the top twenty-five most cited articles of all time.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Received the 2012 Robert F. Greenhill Award.

Jan W. Rivkin: Received the 2012 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Elective Curriculum from the HBS Class of 2012.

Raffaella Sadun: Recipient of a 2012 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Appointed the John and Natty McArthur University Professor in 2011. The position, which was created in 1935 by the President and Fellows of Harvard University, seeks to recognize exemplary faculty members who have pushed the boundaries of their discipline. President Drew G. Faust called Henderson "a leading voice on the environmental challenges of our time."

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Received the 2011 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Andy Wu: Received Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2011.

Andy Wu: Received a 2011 Wharton Doctoral Fellowship.

David B. Yoffie: Overall winner of the 2011 European Case Clearing House (ecch) Awards for “Apple Inc. in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 710-467).

David J. Collis: Harvard Business Review Best Selling Author in 2010 with over one quarter of a million reprints sold.

Rebecca M. 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.

Raffaella Sadun: Named a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2010.

Andy Wu: Selected as a 2010 MIT Burchard Scholar.

David B. Yoffie: Won the 2010-2011 Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.

David J. Collis: Named first-place co-winner of the 50th Anniversary McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2008 for the paper (with the late Michael G. Rukstad) "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?"

Tarun Khanna: Elected a fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009.

Jan W. Rivkin: Received the 2009 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Jan W. Rivkin: Received the 2009 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum from the HBS Class of 2009.

Raffaella Sadun: Named a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009.

David J. Collis: Selected as the Outstanding Reviewer for Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management in 2008.

Ashish Nanda: Named Robert Braucher Chair at Harvard Law School, 2008.

David B. Yoffie: Winner of the 2008-2009 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.

Bharat N. Anand: Received the 2007 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class’s HBS experience.

Tarun Khanna: 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.

Bharat N. Anand: Received the 2006 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the graduating class’s HBS experience.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Received the 2006 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award.

Ashish Nanda: Awarded Best Conference Paper Prize from the Strategic Management Society, 2002.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Winner of the 2002 Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for best teacher in the Wharton MBA program.

Rebecca M. Henderson: Named the 2001 Teacher of the Year at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

David B. Yoffie: Won the 2000-2001 Harvard Business School Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Tarun Khanna: Winner of the 1999 Best Paper Prize from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for "Estimating the Performance Effects of Networks in Emerging Markets" (with Jan Rivkin, Strategic Management Journal, January 2001).

Ashish Nanda: Named Henry B. Arthur Fellow by Harvard Business School, 1999.

Jan W. Rivkin: Winner of the 1999 Best Paper Prize from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for "Estimating the Performance Effects of Networks in Emerging Markets" (with Tarun Khanna, Strategic Management Journal, January 2001).

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Winner of the 1997 Raymond Vernon Prize for outstanding article for "Fair Siting Procedures—An Empirical Analysis of Their Importance and Characteristics" (with Bruno S. Frey, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, summer 1996).

Rebecca M. Henderson: Winner of the 1996 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research for "Maintaining Leadership across Product Generations: The Case of Canon in Photolighographic Alignment Equipment" (Managing Product Development, 1996).

Ashish Nanda: Recipient of the McGillicuddy Doctoral Fellowship from Harvard University, 1988.

David J. Collis: Named 1986 Dean's Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Ashish Nanda: Awarded Director's Gold Medal by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1983.

Ashish Nanda: Awarded President of India Gold Medal by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1981.

David J. Collis: Selected as a 1978 Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School.

David J. Collis: Selected as a 1976 Downing Scholar at University of Cambridge.

David J. Collis: Named the 1976 Wrenbury Scholar at University of Cambridge (top academic economist of the class).

Ashish Nanda: Awarded President of India Gold Medal in All India Higher Secondary, 1976.

Ashish Nanda: Recipient of Senior Science Talent (1975), Junior Science Talent (1973), and All India Merit Certificate (1971), from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, India.