Entrepreneurial Management
2024
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of the Boston Globe's Tech Power Players 2024.
Zoe B. Cullen: Recipient of a 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship in Economics.
Archie L. Jones: Named one of 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference by Board Prospects in 2024.
Archie L. Jones: Received the 2024 Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award.
Rembrand M. Koning: Winner of the 2024 Distinguished Paper Award from the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management for “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz.
Rembrand M. Koning: Winner of the 2024 Wharton People Analytics White Paper Competition for “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz.
2023
Zoe B. Cullen: Recipient of a 2023 National Science Foundation Research Grant ($368,490) for "What's My Employee Worth? Information Frictions, Pay, and Pay Equity" with Ricardo Perez-Truglia.
Ranjay Gulati: Winner of the 2023 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Business Ethics category for Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022).
2022
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2022 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Hidden Alpha" with Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, and Stephan Heller.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of an Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant in 2022 for “Hidden Alpha” with Manuel Amman, Alexander Cochardt, and Stephan Heller.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers.
Ranjay Gulati: Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022) included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s 2022 Best Management Books.
Ranjay Gulati: Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022) included as one of the Next Big Idea Club’s 2022 Books We Can't Wait to Read.
Ranjay Gulati: Deep Purpose (Harper Business, 2022) included as one of the Porchlight Business Bestsellers of 2022.
Ranjay Gulati: Deep Purpose included as one of the Thinkers50 Best New Management Books of 2022.
Scott Duke Kominers: Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun.
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Equity” (Journal of Financial Economics, January 2022) with Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang.
Mitchell B. Weiss: Winner of the 2022 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
2021
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award in 2021 for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.
Lauren H. Cohen: “AQR’s Momentum Funds (A)” (HBS Case 211-025) with Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Christopher Malloy was selected as a Case Centre Bestselling Finance, Accounting and Control Case in 2021.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2021 John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition for “The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen.
Lauren H. Cohen: Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), 2021.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a National Science Foundation Science of Science & Innovation Policy (Sci-SIP) Award for Assessing the Impact of Non-Practicing Entities on U.S. Innovation with Umit Gurun, Scott Kominers, 2015–2021.
Lauren H. Cohen: Recipient of a 2021 Top Cited Article Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Zoe B. Cullen: Recipient of the 2021 Excellence in Refereeing Award from the American Economic Review.
Paul A. Gompers: Winner of the 2021 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” (Journal of Financial Economics, January 2020) with William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev.
Ebehi Iyoha: Winner of the 2021 Young Economists' Essay Award from the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) for “Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network.”
Archie L. Jones: Named one of the Most Influential Black Corporate Directors by Savoy Magazine in 2021.
Archie L. Jones: Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community for 2020–2021.
2020
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Selected for Boston Magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People in Boston Right Now” in 2020.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments at the Annual Meeting of the Financial Management Association with Huaizhi Chen and Umit Gurun for "Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds" (Journal of Finance, 2021).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize at the University of Cambridge Consortium on Asset Management with Huaizhi Chen and Umit Gurun for "Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds" (Journal of Finance, forthcoming).
Lauren H. Cohen: Invited to brief the United States Congress on innovation policy, 2020.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2020 Global Thought Leadership Grant on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) from Fordham University Gabelli School of Business and PVH Corp. for “The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen.
Lauren H. Cohen: Recipient of a 2020 Top Cited Article Award from Wiley Publishing for Lazy Prices (Journal of Finance, June 2020) with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Paul A. Gompers: Winner of the 2020 Journal of Financial Economics First Place Jensen Prize for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” (January 2020) with William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev.
William R. Kerr: 2020 Swedish Schumpeter Lecture at the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.
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.
Shai Benjamin Bernstein: Winner of the 2019 Charles River Associates Award for Best Paper on Corporate Finance from the Western Finance Association with Rebecca Diamond, Timothy McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada for “The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States.”
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2019 Best Paper Award in Investments at the Center for Financial Planning Academic Research Conference for “Lazy Prices” with Christopher Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Zoe B. Cullen: Winner of the 2019 Exemplary Applied Modeling Track Paper at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Economics and Computation for “Equilibrium Effects of Pay Transparency in a Simple Labor Market” with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson.
Ranjay Gulati: 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, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin.
Ranjay Gulati: 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, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin.
William R. Kerr: Winner of the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal in the International Business/Globalization category for The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society (Stanford University Press, 2018)
William R. Kerr: Included in the 2019 Thinkers50 On the Radar list—a list of "emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice."
Scott Duke Kominers: Recipient of a Washington Center for Equitable Growth Grant for research with Ravi Jagadeesan (Harvard University), Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University), and Piort Dworczak (Northwestern University in 2019.
Christopher T. Stanton: Winner of the 2019 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School.
2018
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2018 Crowell Memorial Prize For the Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for “IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice” (with Huaizhi Chen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy).
Lauren H. Cohen: Named a Poets & Quants Favorite MBA Professor of 2017.
Mihir A. Desai: Winner of the 2018 Axiom Business Book Award Bronze Medal in the Economics category for The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).
Scott Duke Kominers: Winner of a 2018 Webby Award for Best Use of Machine Learning from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Streetchange with Nikhil Naik, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo.
Scott Duke Kominers: Winner of the 2018 Western Economic Association International Best Economic Inquiry Article Award for “Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life” with Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik (January 2018).
2017
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Included as one of the 21 Most Powerful People in Boston Business in Boston Magazine in 2017.
Lauren H. Cohen: Named a Top 40 Under 40 Business School Professor Globally by Poets & Quants in 2017.
Lauren H. Cohen: Named one of Harvard Business School’s Best Teachers - CNBC, 2017.
Lauren H. Cohen: Competitor in the 2017 World's Strongest Man competition (80KG).
Ramana Nanda: Selected for a 2017 Schulze Distinguished Professorship.
Natalia Rigol: Recipient of a Bell Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2018.
2016
Shai Benjamin Bernstein: Selected as Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Scholar in Entrepreneurship, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2015-2016.
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of Boston Magazine's The 30 Most Disruptive People in Boston Tech.
Lauren H. Cohen: Set the All-Time World Record in the Squat in the 165 lb. drug-tested division of the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA) with a squat of 583 lbs in December 2016.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2016 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Lazy Prices" with Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2016 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award for "Lazy Prices" with Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2016 Jack Treynor Prize from The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (Q-Group) for "Lazy Prices" with Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2016 Best Paper Prize of the Journal of Investment Consulting Academic Paper Competition for "Cloaked Trading" with Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy.
Scott Duke Kominers: Received the 2016 Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising.
Mitchell B. Weiss: Received the 2016 Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community.
2015
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Co-winner of the 2015 Barry Shrage Community Builder Award from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Honored as The Civic Tech Innovator of the Year in 2015 by Civic Tech Challenge and Generation Citizen.
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of Boston's 50 Most Powerful People by Boston Magazine in 2015.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the Inaugural Hakan Orbay Research First Prize Award in 2015 for “Resident Networks and Corporate Connections: Evidence from World War II Internment Camps” with Umit Gurun and Christopher Malloy (Journal of Finance, 2017).
Thomas R. Eisenmann: Winner of the 2015 Case Centre Award in the Entrepreneurship category for “Dropbox: ‘It Just Works’” with Michael Pao and Lauren Barley (HBS Case 811-065).
Scott Duke Kominers: Won a 2015 Case Centre Award in the Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management Category for “Online Marketing at Big Skinny” with Ben Edelman (HBS Case 911-033).
Josh Lerner: Appointed Vice Chair, Global Agenda Council on Future of Investing, World Economic Forum, 2014-2016.
Ramana Nanda: Winner of the 2015 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship.
Natalia Rigol: Recipient of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Research and Innovation Fellowship, 2014-2015.
Mitchell B. Weiss: Winner of the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
2014
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named a 2014 "Venture Capitalist" Power Player in Digital Media by AlwaysOn.
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of Boston Magazine's Most Powerful Idea People in 2014.
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of Mashable's Top 15 People Shaping Boston's Tech Scene.
Lauren H. Cohen: Set the All-Time World Record in the Squat in the 181 lb. drug-tested division of the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA) with a squat of 630 lbs in December 2014.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2014 Crowell Memorial Prize for Best Paper on Quantitative Investing from PanAgora Asset Management for "Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News" (with Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy, 2014).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of an Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant in 2014 for “Cloaked Trading” with Dong Lou and Christopher Malloy.
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2014 Award for Academic Excellence and Alternative Investment Research from the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association.
Josh Lerner: Received the Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2013.
2013
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the Columbia Millstein Center & Investor Responsibility Research Center Grant, 2013.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2013 Fama-DFA Second Place Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for "Legislating Stock Prices" (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy, December 2013).
Scott Duke Kominers: Honored as an Outstanding Alumnus in STEM and Business by the Center for Excellence in Education in 2013.
Josh Lerner: Named one of the ten most influential academics in the institutional investing world by Asset International's Chief Investment Officer Magazine, 2013.
2012
Ranjay Gulati: Named a Birla Fellow in 2012.
Ranjay Gulati: Won the 2012 Sumantra Ghoshal Award for Rigour and Relevance in the Study of Management from London Business School.
William R. Kerr: Winner of the 2013 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship.
William R. Kerr: Winner of the 2012 FPD Academy Award for Best World Bank Research in Finance and Private Sector Development.
Josh Lerner: Named one of the 100 most influential people in private equity over the past decade by Private Equity International Magazine, 2012.
Ramana Nanda: Won 2012 World Finance Conference Best Paper for "Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation" with Matthew Rhodes-Kropf.
Natalia Rigol: Recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2013.
2011
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2011 Richard A. Crowell Memorial Award, First Prize, from PanAgora Asset Management’s Quantitative Research Institute for the best paper in the field of quantitative investment for his paper with Dong Lou, “Complicated Firms” (Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for for work on Relationships in Finance, 2009–2014.
Thomas R. Eisenmann: Won a 2011 European Case Clearing House (ecch) Award in the Strategy and General Management category for his case with Benjamin G. Edelman, "Google Inc." (HBS Case 910-036) and another ecch Award in the Entrepreneurship category for his case with Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen, and Brian Feinstein, "Facebook’s Platforms" (HBS Case 808-128).
William R. Kerr: Winner of the 2010-2011 H. Gregg Lewis Prize from the Journal of Labor Economics for his paper with William F. Lincoln “The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Innovation” (July 2010).
2010
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2010 Best Paper Prize from the Center for Research in Security Prices Forum for "Complicated Firms" (with Dong Lou, Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2010 First Prize Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition with Christopher Malloy for their paper with Lukasz Pomorski, "Decoding Inside Information" (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16454, October 2010).
Lauren H. Cohen: Presented testimony on the “Impacts of Government Spending” to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, United States House of Representatives, Sept 29, 2010.
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of an Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant in 2010 for "Complicated Firms" (with Dong Lou, Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of the 2010 First Prize in the Istanbul Stock Exchange 25th Anniversary Best Paper Competition for "Complicated Firms" (with Dong Lou, Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a Paul Woolley Centre Academic Grant in 2010 for "Complicated Firms" (with Dong Lou, Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2010 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Honor for the Best Paper in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Christopher Malloy and Andrea Frazzini, “Sell-Side School Ties” (August 2010).
Scott Duke Kominers: Winner of the 2010 Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student, given jointly by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics “for his outstanding and prolific record of undergraduate research spanning a broad range of topics, including number theory, computational geometry, and mathematical economics.”
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2010 Axiom Business Book Award Gold Medal for the Best Book on Entrepreneurship for Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2009).
Josh Lerner: Elected a Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute in 2010.
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship, given by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, and Sweden's Research Institute of Industrial Economics, for his pioneering research into venture capital and venture capital-backed entrepreneurship.
Ramana Nanda: Awarded the 2009-2010 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.
2009
Lauren H. Cohen: Received a 2009 Emerald Management Reviews Citation of Excellence Award for his paper with Andrea Frazzini, “Economic Links and Predictable Returns” (Journal of Finance, August 2008).
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of an Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) Grant in 2009 for "Decoding Inside Information" (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16454, October 2010) with Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski.
Mihir A. Desai: Runner up for the 2009 Review of Financial Studies-Michael Brennan Best Paper Prize for his paper with C. Fritz Foley and Kristen Forbes, "Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises" (November 2008).
Ranjay Gulati: Elected a fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2009.
Josh Lerner: Second Place Winner of the 2009 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for his paper with Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, and David Scharfstein, "Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets" (May 2008).
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Business, Finance, and Management category for Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2009). This award is given by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers to recognize landmark works in a field of scholarship.
Josh Lerner: Awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Munich in 2009.
2008
Lauren H. Cohen: Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008.
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2008 Smith Breeden Prize for a distinguished paper in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Andrea Frazzini, “Economic Links and Predictable Returns” (Journal of Finance, August 2008).
Mihir A. Desai: Won with C. Fritz Foley the 2008 Pearson/Prentice Hall Prize for Best Paper in Financial Management for their paper (with James R. Hines Jr.) "Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm" (2007).
Ranjay Gulati: Won the 2007–2008 Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA Program Best Professor Award.
2007
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2007 Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association, for the paper with Andrea Frazzini and Christopher Malloy, “The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns” (Journal of Political Economy, October 2008).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2007 Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal of Finance for his paper with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy, “Supply and Demand Shifts in the Shorting Market” (October 2007).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2007 Society of Quantitative Analysts Award for Best Paper in Quantitative Investments from the Western Finance Association for the paper with Breno Schmidt, “Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients” (Journal of Finance, October 2009).
Mihir A. Desai: Winner of the Second Place 2007 Jensen Prize presented by Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Corporate Finance and Organizations for his paper with Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales, "Theft and Taxes" (June 2007).
Josh Lerner: Received Honorable Mention for the City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property in 2007.
Arthur I Segel: Honored as 2007 Man of the Year by the 21st Century Fund, a foundation in Brookline Massachusetts that supports new initiatives in public education.
Arthur I Segel: Voted One of the Top 20 Most Influential People in Real Estate in the World by Private Equity Real Estate Magazine in 2007.
2006
Jeffrey J. Bussgang: Named one of Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2006.
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2006 BSI Gamma Foundation Grant, Firm Characteristics and Investment Management for the paper (with Andrea Frazzini) "Economic Links and Predictable Returns" (Journal of Finance, August 2008).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2006 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for the paper (with Andrea Frazzini) "Economic Links and Predictable Returns" (Journal of Finance, August 2008).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won the 2006 Barclays Global Investors Best Paper Prize, Asset Allocation Symposium, European Finance Association, for the paper with Breno Schmidt, “Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients” (Journal of Finance, October 2009).
Lauren H. Cohen: Won a 2006 Whitebox Grant for Research in the Behavioral Sciences.
Ramana Nanda: Received the 2005-2006 Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award.
2005
Josh Lerner: Named One of the 50 Most Influential People in Intellectual Property by Managing Intellectual Property magazine in 2005.
Josh Lerner: Nominated for the Smith Breeden Prize for Outstanding Paper published in the Journal of Finance in 2003, 2004, and 2005.
2004
Mihir A. Desai: Won the 2004 Barclays Global Investor Best Symposium Paper for his paper with Daniel Bergstresser and Joshua Rauh, “Managerial Opportunism and Earnings Manipulation: Evidence from Defined Benefit Pension Plans.”
Josh Lerner: Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What To Do About It (Princeton University Press, 2004), with Adam Jaffe, was selected by The Economist as one of the Best Business and Economics Books of the Year.
Ramana Nanda: Awarded a GBI-Stern Aspen Foundation Grant in 2004 for research on the Indian software industry.
2003
Josh Lerner: Winner of the 2003 Western Finance Association’s NASDAQ Award for Best Paper on Capital Formation for "Transaction Structures in Developing Countries: The Case of Private Equity" (with Antoinette Schoar).
2002
Paul A. Gompers: Winner of the 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research offered by the Rodney L. White Center at Wharton for "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices" (with Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2003).
Josh Lerner: Received the 2002 All Star Paper Award from the Journal of Financial Economics for “Venture Capitalists and the Decision to Go Public” (1994).
2001
Mihir A. Desai: Received the Student Association Award for Teaching Excellence from the HBS Class of 2001.
2000
Lauren H. Cohen: Winner of a Simon Kuznets Fellowship, Outstanding Undergraduate in Economics, Penn Institute for Economic Research, 2000.
1999
Josh Lerner: Named a Faculty Research Fellow in the Corporate Finance Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998-1999.
Josh Lerner: Named a Research Associate in the Productivity and Output Measurement and Corporate Finance Programs at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1999.
1998
Paul A. Gompers: Winner of the 1998 American Association of Individual Investors Award for Best Paper on Investments at the Western Finance Association Meeting.
Paul A. Gompers: Winner of the 1998 Smith Breeden Prize for Distinguished Paper in The Journal of Finance for “Myth or Reality? The Long-Run Underperformance of Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from Venture and Nonventure Capital-Backed Companies” (December 1997) with Alon Brav.
Josh Lerner: Named a Faculty Research Fellow in the Productivity and Output Measurement Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1996-1999.
1997
Josh Lerner: Named a Berol Faculty Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1996-1997.
1996
Ranjay Gulati: Won the 1996 Best Paper Award from the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management for "Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption" with James Westphal and Steve Shortell (Administrative Science Quarterly, June 1997).
1994
Paul A. Gompers: Awarded the 1994 Newcomen Business History Paper Prize for “The Rise and Fall of Venture Capital” (Business and Economic History, Winter 1994).
1993
Ranjay Gulati: Named a Harvard MacArthur Fellow for 1992–1993.
1991
Josh Lerner: Received a 1990-1991 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Consortium on Competitiveness and Cooperation at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley.
1990
Josh Lerner: Received the 1989-1990 Dively Fellowship from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Josh Lerner: Received a 1989-1991 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.