The 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, given by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, has gone to HBS assistant professor Rawi Abdelal for National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective (Cornell University Press, 2001). (Please see related story here.)

The Journal of Finance has honored several HBS faculty members: Assistant Professor Malcolm P. Baker has won the 2002 Brattle Prize for the best paper in corporate finance for "Market Timing and Capital Structure," [pdf file] cowritten with Jeffrey Wurgler (Ph.D., Business Economics, 1999). The 2002 Smith Breeden Prize for best paper, excluding corporate finance, has gone to Associate Professor Mark L. Mitchell, Todd Pulvino (Ph.D., Business Economics, 1996), and Assistant Professor Erik Stafford for "Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets."

Professor Christopher A. Bartlett and Professor Sumantra Ghoshal (DBA 1986) of the London Business School have won the 2002 Award in Leadership and Corporate Governance from the Association of Executive Search Consultants for their article "Building Competitive Advantage through People," which appeared in the winter 2002 MIT Sloan Management Review.

Professor Max H. Bazerman is a recipient of the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award. Based on student nominations, this award is offered annually by the Graduate Student Council of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding mentors of graduate students among the University's faculty and to promote throughout the Harvard community a broader understanding of the importance of mentoring. Associate Professor Amy C. Edmondson is a previous winner.

Assistant Professor Estelle S. Cantillon, who earned her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2000, has won the David A. Wells Prize for her dissertation, "Essays in Auction Theory and Political Economy." The prize recognizes the Harvard Economics Department's best doctoral dissertation and is awarded only when an "exceptional thesis is produced." Among past winners are University Professor Michael E. Porter (1973-74) of Harvard and Nobel laureates Paul A. Samuelson (1941-42) of MIT and A. Michael Spence (1971-72) of Stanford.

The University of Delaware has awarded an honorary degree to Professor Emeritus Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., describing him as "the world's foremost business historian." The citation noted Chandler's role as the preeminent authority on the evolution of the modern corporation. Chandler has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Business History Conference, an association of business historians.

The George & Robin Raymond Family Business Institute has awarded a grant and research fellowship to Senior Lecturer John A. Davis to support his eight-year research project and book on the successful practices of family businesses.

The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul Gompers and coauthors Joy L. Ishii and Andrew Metrick for their paper "Corporate Governance and Equity Prices" [pdf file].

"Managing Multi-Site Nonprofits," by Professor Allen Grossman and Professor V. Kasturi Rangan, has received the annual Editors' Prize for the best scholarly paper in the journal Nonprofit Management and Leadership for 2002. This paper emerged from the School's 1998 Social Enterprise Research Forum.

Professor Geoffrey G. Jones has won the premier business history prizes in both the United States and Great Britain for his book Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Oxford University Press, 2000). The book received the 2001 Wadsworth Business History Prize as the work by a British scholar that has made the most "significant contribution to the study of business history." The volume also won the 1998-2000 Harvard-Newcomen Book Award in Business History. Conferred once every three years by the editorial board of the Business History Review, the award recognizes the best work in the field of business history published in the United States.

The Intelligent Community Forum, a unit of the World Teleport Association that focuses on communities' use of broadband technology for economic development, has presented its Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year Award to Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. The award recognizes ongoing research, writing, and teaching that aims to guide communities, leaders, and private-sector organizations as they make the transformation into the Digital Age. Kanter has also received an honorary degree from Tulane University for her "innovative work on strategic leadership for change that has altered the way business and government approach the global economy."

Professor Robert S. Kaplan has received several major awards in the field of accounting: The American Accounting Association honored him with a Wildman Medal for his book The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (coauthored by David P. Norton, DBA 1973; HBS Press, 1996). Presented annually, the award recognizes a work that has had significant influence on both practice and research in public accounting. The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) presented Kaplan with its R. Lee Brummet Distinguished Service Award for contributions to the IMA and the academic community.

The fifteenth anniversary issue of Risk magazine has included University Professor Robert C. Merton in its Risk Hall of Fame, one of fifty "pioneers in risk management" so honored. The publication has also presented him with its 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Assistant Professor Youngme Moon has been selected as the 2002-03 Hellman Faculty Fellow at HBS. The Hellman Faculty Fellowship Fund was recently established by F. Warren Hellman (MBA 1959) and his wife, Patricia C. Hellman, to assist talented junior professors who have distinguished themselves.

Professor Emeritus Howard Raiffa, a pioneer in the field of decision analysis, has received an honorary degree from Harvard University. An originator of the "decision tree," he has done extensive work in developing techniques to help decision makers think more systematically about complex choices involving uncertainties and tradeoffs.

Associate Professor Scott A. Snook has received the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Award for his book Friendly Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq (Princeton University Press, 2000). This honor is granted annually to the book published during the past two years that is judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the advancement of management knowledge.

Assistant Professor Luis M. Viceira and Professor John Y. Campbell of the Harvard Economics Department are cowinners of the seventh annual Paul A. Samuelson Award for their book Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors (Oxford University Press, 2002). Administered by the TIAA-CREF Institute, the award recognizes outstanding original scholarship on lifelong financial security that has practical implications for individuals and financial planners.

Associate Professor Michael Watkins has received the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's 2002 book award for Breakthrough Business Negotiation: A Toolbox for Managers (Jossey-Bass, 2002). He won the 2001 award as well for Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts (Jossey-Bass, 2001), coauthored by Susan Rosegrant. The CPR Institute is the leading U.S. organization of dispute resolution professionals.

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