A round-up of recent Harvard Business School faculty awards, honors and recognition.
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Le Cercle des Economistes French Translation: Vincent Pons Wins the 2023 Best Young Economist Award
May 26, 2023
Associate Professor Vincent Pons has won the Best Young Economist Award. The award is the benchmark award for young French economists. This Prize promotes the work of a French economist or an economist assigned to France, under the age of 41. The Prize recognizes not only the excellence of the academic production of young French economists, but also their contribution to public debate. It corresponds to the Cercle's ambition to identify the talents who will shape the economics of tomorrow.
Case Centre Awards Five HBS Professors Win Case Centre Awards
February 27, 2023
The Case Centre Awards and Competitions recognize outstanding case writers and teachers from across the globe. These prestigious accolades celebrate worldwide excellence in case writing and teaching. The award winners are as follows:
Ethics and Social Responsibility category winner: "Global Sourcing at Nike" by Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W Toffel, and Olivia Hull
Finance, Accounting and Control category winner: "Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)" by Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C Esty, and Greg Saldutte
Strategy and General Management category winner: "Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Nancy Hua Dai.
National Science Foundation Professor Hima Lakkaraju Receives NSF Career Award
February 13, 2023
Professor Hima Lakkaraju has been awarded the NSF Career Award for her project that aims to systematically characterize existing explanation methods so that practitioners can readily determine which methods to employ in a given real-world application. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
Thinkers50 Raffaella Sadun and Stephanie Creary Named on Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2023
January 31, 2023
The Thinkers50 Radar identifies a cohort of 30 up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on management thinking in the future. It identifies new talent and ideas and provides an early alert system for managers, publishers, speaker bureaus, and others in the thought leadership industry. The annual list honors Professor Raffaella Sadun, whose research focuses on performance management, and BiGS Fellow Stephanie Creary, whose research focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
CFA Institute Professor George Serafeim Wins 2022 Graham and Dodd Award of Excellence
January 23, 2023
The 2022 winner of the Graham and Dodd Scroll Award is “Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?” by Professor George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon. These prestigious awards are bestowed annually for the best research articles published in the Financial Analysts Journal, the flagship publication of CFA Institute, and recognize the contribution of the articles to the practice of investment management.
Next Big Idea Club Deep Purpose Makes the Top 20 Leadership Books of 2022
December 1, 2022
Professor Ranjay Gulati's Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, made the Top 20 Leadership Books of 2022 list.
Pocket 2022’s Top Author: Arthur C. Brooks on Rethinking Happiness
November 10, 2022
Professor Arthur C. Brooks, the columnist behind The Atlantic’s "How to Build a Life" series, claimed the title of 2022’s Most Pocketed Writer, meaning more of his articles were reviewed on the news site Pocket than any other author.
Driven Data Labs Professor Seth Neel Wins U.S. Pets Prize Challenge: Phase 1
November 10, 2022
Professor Seth Neel and his team, MusCAT, are winners of the U.S. PETs Prize Challenge. Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have the potential to unlock more trustworthy innovation in data analysis and machine learning. The goal of the challenge is to advance privacy-preserving federated learning solutions that provide end-to-end privacy and security protections while harnessing the potential of AI for overcoming significant global challenges.
Forbes Introducing the Forbes Future of Work 50
November 3, 2022
Forbes' inaugural list of 50 leaders, executives, thinkers and teams who are shaping the office of tomorrow, today includes HBS Professor Tsedal Neeley.
INFORMS 2022 Lauren Cohen and Scott Duke Kominers Awarded Management Science Best Paper Award
November 1, 2022
Professors Lauren Cohen and Scott Duke Kominers won the Management Science Best Paper Award from the finance section of INFORMS. Papers are evaluated based on their contribution to theory, empirics, operational aspects, and managerial practice of finance.
INFORMS 2022 Professor Edward McFowland III and Colleagues Win Best Complete Paper Award
October 17, 2022
At the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Professor Edward McFowland III and colleagues won the Best Complete Paper Award for their paper "Ensemble Iv: Creating Instrumental Variables from Ensemble Learners for Robust Statistical Inference." This award was presented for their latest method of addressing measurement (prediction) error in data-mined variables when they are incorporated into regression analyses.
Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus Stephen Greyser (MBA 1958), was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Bradford University. He had previously collaborated with former Bradford Professor John Balmer and Lund (Sweden) Professor Mats Urde on a project examining the branding of monarchies. Greyser currently serves on Bradford’s business school’s advisory board, as well as a guest lecturer. Balmer is now Professor of Corporate Identity at Brunel. Greyser has been a long-time marketing professor at HBS, teaching for over 50 years and continuing to publish HBS cases and Working Papers. Commenting on his honorary degree, Greyser said, “I have always felt that I was a member of the Bradford family. Now, I am also an alumnus.”
Earlier this year, Greyser was elected through a competitive ballot to the Market Research Council Hall of Fame in the Retired Practitioner category. He was recognized for “his contributions of outstanding and lasting value to the practice of Market Research.”
Private Equity Summit Series Professor Josh Lerner Awarded the Doriot Award
October 2, 2022
Professor Josh Lerner and colleagues have been awarded the 2022 Doriot Award for their paper “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity.” Established in 2021, the award jury searches for academic publications in highly ranked peer reviewed journals (A or A+ ranking) on the topics of private equity and venture capital.
Chicago Quantitative Alliane
Professor Lauren Cohen Awarded First Prize in CQA's Academic Competition
September 30, 2022
Professor Lauren Cohen, post-doctoral researcher Stephan Heller, and colleagues have won first place in Chicago Quantitative Alliance’s Academic Competition with their paper “Hidden Alpha.” Winners are chosen based on both presentation quality and content of interest to practicing investment professionals. Competitive papers submitted are from topic areas such as asset allocation, derivatives, fixed income, equity, financial engineering, and security valuation/pricing models.
U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Commerce Appoints First Members to Industrial Advisory Committee
September 29, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the appointment of 24 members to the Industrial Advisory Committee (IAC), including HBS Professor Willy Shih. The advisory body that will provide guidance to the Secretary of Commerce on a range of issues related to domestic semiconductor research and development in support of CHIPS for America.
American Accounting Association
Professors Ethan Rouen and Yuan Zou Receive Innovation in Research Award
September 29, 2022
Professors Ethan Rouen and Yuan Zou received the Innovation in Research Award for their paper “Inclusive Managers,” which is now titled “Passing the Mic: Career and Firm Outcomes of Executive Interactions," from the American Accounting Association.
MIT
Professors Pacelli and Zou Receive Best Paper Award
September 29, 2022
At the 2022 MIT Asia Conference, Professors Joseph Pacelli, Yuan Zou, and Doctoral Student Tianshuo Shi, received the award for Best Paper for their paper "Communicating Corporate Culture in Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings."
European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management
Professor Ethan Rouen Receives Award
September 23, 2022
Professor Ethan Rouen has received the award for Best Junior Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability from the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.
Formiche Italian Translation: Minister Franco Gives Sadun and Tabellini the de Sanctis Prize
September 6, 2022
Economist Raffaella Sadun, connected via streaming, received the De Sanctis Prize for Economic Sciences in a ceremony that took place in the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi room of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, in the presence of Minister Daniele Franco.
Society for Personality and Social Psychology SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award
August 30, 2022 Ashley Whillans has received a SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by early career scholars in social and personality psychology, including contributions to teaching, research, or service to the field.
International Association for Conflict Management 2022 Early Career Award Winners Announcement July 10, 2022
Earlier this year, the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) announced the winners of its Early Career Award. This award honors scholars in the first five years of their post-doctoral career, who have shown exceptional promise for making significant contributions to the study of conflict and negotiation. This year, the award went to Jackson Lu (MIT) and Julian Zlatev
(HBS). Both Jackson and Julian were presented with their award at this year’s IACM Conference in Ottawa, Canada this July.
Market Research Council Market Research Council Announces 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees June 28, 2022
The Market Research Council (MRC), the nation’s leading organization devoted to promoting the field of marketing research, announced the inductees for its 2022 Market Research Council Hall of Fame Awards and for its Change Maker Award. This year’s Hall of Fame Inductees include Stephen A. Greyser,
Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, in the Retired Practitioner category. Professor Greyser is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to market research.
International Industrial Organization Conference Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for Assistant Professor Alex MacKay May 17, 2022
The Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize for the best paper in antitrust economics is presented at the International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC), annually. The IIOC is one of the most high-profile conferences in the field of industrial organization. Assistant Professor Alex MacKay and colleagues from Georgetown and DICE were honored this year for their paper, "Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences." The paper shows that companies in the consumer-packaged goods industry in the U.S. significantly increased their market power between 2006 and 2019, increasing their price-cost margins by more than 30% on average. The main reasons for this increase are that consumers are less responsive to price changes over time, and falling production costs have only been passed on to consumers to a small extent.
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