Strategy
2025
Maria P. Roche: Recipient of the 2025 Wyss Award for Excellence in Mentoring Doctoral Students.
Andy Wu: Received the 2025 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class.
2024
Juan Alcacer: Received the 2024 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class.
Maria P. Roche: Runner-up for the Best Paper in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the 2024 Industry Studies Association Annual Conference for “You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century US Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance” with Astrid Marinoni.
Raffaella Sadun: Winner of the 2023 HBR Prize for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Reskilling in the Age of AI” (September–October 2023) with Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, and Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic.
Jorge Tamayo: Winner of the 2023 HBR Prize for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review for “Reskilling in the Age of AI” (September–October 2023) with Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun.
Tiona W. Zuzul: Included as one of the “Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants in 2024.
2023
Bharat N. Anand: Winner of the 2023 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Harvard Business School.
Maria P. Roche: Recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science.
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."
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.
2021
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).
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.
2020
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."
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.
2019
Rebecca M. Henderson: Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times.
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.
2018
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?"
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
2015
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).
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.
2013
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.
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.
2012
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.
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."
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).
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.
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.
2009
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.
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.
2007
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.
2006
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.
2002
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.
2001
Rebecca M. Henderson: Named the 2001 Teacher of the Year at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
2000
David B. Yoffie: Won the 2000-2001 Harvard Business School Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching.
1999
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).
1997
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).
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).
1988
Ashish Nanda: Recipient of the McGillicuddy Doctoral Fellowship from Harvard University, 1988.
1983
Ashish Nanda: Awarded Director's Gold Medal by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 1983.
1981
Ashish Nanda: Awarded President of India Gold Medal by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1981.
1976
Ashish Nanda: Awarded President of India Gold Medal in All India Higher Secondary, 1976.
1973
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.