General Management
2024
Leonard A. Schlesinger: Received the 2023-2024 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
2023
Nien-he Hsieh: Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Ethics and Social Responsibility category for “Global Sourcing at Nike” (HBS Case 619-008) with Michael Toffel and Olivia Hull.
Hubert Joly: Recipient of the 2023 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.
Hubert Joly: Included on the 2023 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Winner of the 2023 Case Centre Award in the Strategy and General Management category for “Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant” (HBS Case 318-104) with Nancy Hua Dai.
2022
Arthur C. Brooks: Received the 2022 Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute.
Arthur C. Brooks: Received the 2022 Pioneer Award in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named one of 20 Linkedin Top Voices in Social Impact in 2022.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2022.
Hubert Joly: Recipient of 2022 Stanley Hoffman Award from Sciences Po American Foundation.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Winner of the Inaugural European Business History Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: “Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant” (HBS Case 318-104) with Nancy Hua Dai was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling Strategy and General Management Case in 2021.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 Squire Patton Boggs Nonprofit Leadership Symposium.
Leonard A. Schlesinger: Received the 2021–2022 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community.
2021
Arthur C. Brooks: Won the National Peacemaker Award from the National Conflict Resolution Center in 2020.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named a Glassdoor Employee’s Choice Top CEO at an SMB in 2021.
Vikram Gandhi: Winner of the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times and the Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium for the course, "Investing for Risk, Return, and Impact," developed with Shawn Cole.
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).
Regina E. Herzlinger: Established the George and Regi Herzlinger Award for the Development of Educational Skills Focusing on Invention, Evaluation, and Adoption of Innovation in Healthcare from the Commission on the Accreditation of Health Management Education (CAHME).
Hubert Joly: Winner of the 2021 Thinkers50 Leadership Award.
Hubert Joly: Included on the 2021 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers.
Krishna G. Palepu: Winner of the 2021 Case Centre Award in the Production and Operations Management category for “Ant Financial (A)” with Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai (HBS Case 617-060).
George A. Riedel: Named a Henry B. Arthur Fellow in 2021.
Deborah M. Winshel: Recipient of the 2021 Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.
Andy Zelleke: Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.
2020
Arthur C. Brooks: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Thomas Aquinas College in 2020.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Winner of the 2020–21 Bugbee-Falk Book Award from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) for Innovating in Health Care (Wiley, forthcoming).
Hubert Joly: Named HEC Paris Person of the Year in 2020.
Hubert Joly: Named Retailer of the Year by Forbes in 2016.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Selected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2020 for distinction in the social sciences.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books on Talent and Leadership in 2020.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected as a January 2020 Financial Times Business Book of the Month.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time (PublicAffairs, 2020) was selected as a 2020 getAbstract International Book Award Winner.
Lynn S. Paine: Received the 2020 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community.
Krishna G. Palepu: Recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Management in 2020.
Sandra J. Sucher: Received the 2019–2020 Robert F. Greenhill Award.
Peter Tufano: Honorary Fellow of St. Benet's Hall at University of Oxford.
2019
Lynda M. Applegate: Received the 2019 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community.
Lynda M. Applegate: Recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women Presidents Organization.
Arthur C. Brooks: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Social Science from Brigham Young University in 2019.
Arthur C. Brooks: Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Claremont McKenna College in 2019.
Arthur C. Brooks: Received the Florida Atlantic University College of Business Distinguished Alumni Award and Hall of Fame Award in 2019.
Rebecca M. Henderson: Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times.
Hubert Joly: Awarded the Deming Cup for Operational Excellence in 2019.
Hubert Joly: Named one of the Top 10 CEOs in the United States by Glassdoor in 2019.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Selected as a Fellow of the Japan Academy of International Business Studies in 2019.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Winner of the 2019 Hutchens Medal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Winner of the 2019 Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Winner of the 2019 Thought Leader Award from the ISA-Association of Learning Providers.
Peter Tufano: Attendee at the World Economic Forum and Global Agenda Councils, 2016–2020.
2018
Laura Alfaro: Recipient of a Harvard China Fund Faculty Grant in 2018.
Hubert Joly: Inducted into the Junior Achievement of the Upper-Midwest Business Hall of Fame in 2018.
Hubert Joly: Named Person of the Year by Twin Cities Business Magazine in 2018.
Hubert Joly: Named one of the Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review in 2018.
Hubert Joly: Named one of the Top 30 CEOs in the World by Barron’s in 2018.
Nancy F. Koehn: Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times (Scribner, 2017) was selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books on Leadership in 2018.
Lynn S. Paine: Winner of the 2018 Rendanheyi Badge for Lifetime Achievement from the Second International Rendanheyi Model Forum sponsored by Haier Group and MLab
Peter Tufano: Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).
Deborah M. Winshel: Recipient of the HBS Club of New York’s John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award in 2018.
2017
Gerald C. Chertavian: Received the Bowdoin Common Good Award in 2017.
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.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Named one of Healthcare Management International's "100 Most Influential People in Healthcare--World Edition" in the Education category in 2017.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Named one of the 60 Most Powerful People in Healthcare by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2017.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Recognized as an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2017.
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017.
Nancy F. Koehn: Recipient of the 2017 Jennie F. McLaughlin Award for Lifelong Learning from the Kingston Public Library and Kingston Council on Aging.
Leonard A. Schlesinger: Received the 2016–2017 Robert F. Greenhill Service Award for continued outstanding contributions to the HBS community.
2016
Laura Alfaro: Recipient of a 2016 Lemann Brazil Research Fund Award from Harvard University.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named HBS Distinguished Alumni in 2016.
Hubert Joly: Appointed a Knight in the French Legion of Honor in 2016.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Recipient of the 2016 Journalism Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for the book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead (W.W. Norton & Company, 2015).
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Tsinghua University in 2016.
Peter Tufano: Won the 2016 Faculty Pioneer Award for Institutional Leadership from the Aspen Institute.
Peter Tufano: Inducted into the Monticello (NY) Hall of Distinction, 2016.
Andy Zelleke: Recipient of the 2016 Robert F. Greenhill Award.
2015
Gerald C. Chertavian: Recipient of the Boston NAACP’s Kivie Kaplan Humanitarian Award in 2015.
Hubert Joly: Recipient of the 2015 US Sciences Po American Foundation Alumni Award.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Winner of the 2016 Everett M. Rogers Award from the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame in 2015.
Peter Tufano: Named one of the GQ 100 Most Connected Men in Britain, 2015.
2014
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014 by Goldman Sachs.
Leemore S. Dafny: Selected as the 14th Annual Seidman Lecturer by the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Named one of the 40 Smartest People in Healthcare by Becker’s Hospital Review in 2014.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Received the 2014 Beatrice D. Ellerin Award from the HBS Health Industry Alumni. The prestigious and competitive Ellerin award recognizes an outstanding leader in the health care industry who has made a significant contribution to shaping her or his field.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Helsinki, Finland, for distinguished research in business history, 2014.
Deborah M. Winshel: Recipient of the HBS Women's Association of Greater New York's "Women Who Inspire Us" award in 2014.
2013
Laura Alfaro: Named Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.
Laura Alfaro: Named Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration, 2013.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Boston Philanthropy by Boston Magazine in 2013.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Received the 2013 Jefferson Award for Outstanding Service by an Entrepreneur.
Gerald C. Chertavian: Recognized as a YouthJobs+ White House Champion of Change in 2013.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Winner of the 2013 Oxford Journals Article Prize with Christina Lubinski for the best article published in Enterprise & Society in the previous year for their paper, "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990" (March 2012).
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Received the 2013 William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award from the Sociological Practice and Public Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
Lynn S. Paine: Received the 2013 Robert F. Greenhill Award.
Krishna G. Palepu: Elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Management in 2013.
Deborah M. Winshel: Named one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in New York" by Crain’s in 2013.
2012
Gerald C. Chertavian: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Mount Ida College in 2012.
Leemore S. Dafny: Winner of the 2012 Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award from the Kellogg School of Management.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Awarded an Honorary PhD in Economics and Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School in 2012.
Nancy F. Koehn: Selected in 2012 as one of the World's Best Business School Professors by Poets and Quants.
2011
Leemore S. Dafny: Received a Faculty Impact Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management in 2010 and 2011.
Leemore S. Dafny: Received a Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award from the Kellogg School of Management in 2011.
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."
Geoffrey G. Jones: Honored in 2011 as the May Ushiyama Honorary Professor of Beauty Business.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Given the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus for her work on removing barriers to women's inclusion in the corporate and public worlds and for personal service as advisor to Governors and other public officials on economic issues.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Won the second place 2011 McKinsey Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review during 2010 for “How Great Companies Think Differently.”
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by East China Normal University in 2011.
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by National Chengchi University in 2011.
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Zheijiang University in 2011.
Lynn S. Paine: Won the 2011 Faculty Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award from The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education.
Peter Tufano: Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award in 1997, 2001, and 2011.
2010
Gerald C. Chertavian: Awarded an Honorary Doctorate from William James College in 2010.
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.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Honored with the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals at its annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Named one of the 125 women who changed our lives over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping in the May 2010 issue celebrating the magazine's 125th anniversary. She was cited for her ground-breaking research on the toll of tokenism, work/family conflicts, fostering diversity, and the creation of successful organizations which has helped women become stronger, more strategic leaders.
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010.
Brian L. Trelstad: Selected for the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute in 2010.
2009
Hubert Joly: Awarded the French National Order of Merit in 2009.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Rosabeth Moss Kanter was honored with the 2010 International Leadership Award from the Association of Leadership Professionals at their annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
Brian L. Trelstad: Selected for the Kauffman Fellowship Program in 2009.
Peter Tufano: Received the Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in 2002 and 2009.
2008
Laura Alfaro: Named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor, bestowed annually, recognizes leaders in business, government, academia, and the media—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.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Awarded honorary membership in the American College of Physician Executives in 2008 in recognition of her many contributions to the advancement of medical management.
Rosabeth M. Kanter: Awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree by Aalborg University, Denmark, in November 2008.
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Chongqing University in 2008.
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Fudan University in 2008.
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 2008.
Sandra J. Sucher: Received the 2007–2008 Robert F. Greenhill Award.
2007
Laura Alfaro: Named Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Winner of the 2007 Pioneer in Health Economics Award from Consumers for Health Care Choices.
Lynn S. Paine: Recipient of the 2007 HBS Global Research Fellowship.
2006
Leemore S. Dafny: Received the Chairs' Core Course Teaching Award, Best Instructor for Management & Strategy, from the Kellogg School of Management, 2005–2006.
William C. Kirby: Received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations in 2006.
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Dr. Phil. Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by the Freie Universität Berlin Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften in 2006.
2005
Gerald C. Chertavian: Received the 2005 Freedom House Archie R. Williams, Jr. Technology Award.
William C. Kirby: Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
2004
Sandra J. Sucher: Named a Henry B. Arthur Fellow, 2003–2004.
2003
Gerald C. Chertavian: Received the 2003 Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneurship Award.
Lynn S. Paine: Inducted into Bartow (Florida) High School Hall of Fame in 2003.
Lynn S. Paine: Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance (McGraw-Hill, 2004) was selected as a Library Journal Best Business Book in 2003.
2002
Gerald C. Chertavian: Named one of Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2002.
2001
Rebecca M. Henderson: Named the 2001 Teacher of the Year at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Lynn S. Paine: Received the 2001 Robert F. Greenhill Award.
Krishna G. Palepu: Winner of the 2001 All Star Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Economics for "Does Corporate Performance Improve after Mergers?" (April 1992) with Paul M. Healy and Richard S. Ruback.
2000
Regina E. Herzlinger: Winner of the 2000 Articles of Merit Competition of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Financial and Management Accounting Committee for "The Outsiders" (Management Accounting, June 2000).
Geoffrey G. Jones: Winner of the Wadsworth Prize for the most outstanding book published on British business history in 2000 for Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000).
1999
Leemore S. Dafny: Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1997–2001.
Geoffrey G. Jones: Winner of the Newcomen-Harvard Award for the most outstanding book published in business history in the United States 1998–2000 for Merchants to Multinationals (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Krishna G. Palepu: Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements (South-Western College Publishing, 1996), with Victor L. Bernard and Paul M. Healy, won the 1999 American Accounting Association Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award.
1998
Laura Alfaro: Recipient of Dissertation Award, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 1998.
Regina E. Herzlinger: Winner of the 1998 James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award presented by American College of Healthcare Executives for Market-Driven Health Care (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc., 1996).
Hubert Joly: Selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, 1997–1999.
1997
William C. Kirby: Received a grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange for 1993–2000.
William C. Kirby: Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for 1994–1999.
Krishna G. Palepu: Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements (South-Western College Publishing, 1996), with Victor L. Bernard and Paul M. Healy, won the 1997 Wildman Medal Award from the American Accounting Association.
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).
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Peking University in 1996.
Peter Tufano: Winner of the 1996 Smith Breeden Prize for Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Finance for "Who Manages Risk? An Empirical Examination of Risk Management Practices in the Gold Mining Industry" (September 1996).
1995
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Fellowship in Chinese Studies from the American Council of Learned Societies for 1994–1995.
1994
William C. Kirby: Awarded an Honorary Professorship by Nanjing University in 1994.
1993
Laura Alfaro: Recipient of Fellowship, Foundation Francisco Marroquín, 1993-1999.
1991
Geoffrey G. Jones: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1991.
William C. Kirby: Received a Distinguished Faculty Award from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1991.
1987
William C. Kirby: Received a Research Grant from the U.S. National Program for Advanced Study and Research in China for 1987.
Peter Tufano: Named Dean's Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School, 1985–1988.
1985
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Fellowship in Chinese Studies from the American Council of Learned Societies for 1984–1985.
1983
William C. Kirby: Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for 1983.
1982
William C. Kirby: Received a History of Science and Technology Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for 1982.
1980
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities for 1979–1980.
1979
Peter Tufano: Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1979.
1978
William C. Kirby: Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for 1977–1978.
1977
William C. Kirby: Received a Center for European Studies Research Grant from the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for 1977.
1976
William C. Kirby: Received a Harvard History Research Grant for Europe in 1976.
William C. Kirby: Awarded a National Defence Foreign Language Fellowship for 1975–1976.
1975
William C. Kirby: Winner of a Harvard University Graduate Fellowship, 1973–1976.
1973
William C. Kirby: Named a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin for 1972–1973.
1972
William C. Kirby: Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 1972.