Every year, the SMS Awards & Honors Committee recognizes individuals and research that have made significant contributions to the field of strategic management and advance its study and practice. With these awards, SMS honors emerging scholars in the field, scholars who have demonstrated leadership and innovation, articles that have notable impacts in the field, authors of outstanding academic work, and more.
We are delighted to present the 2024 SMS Award recipients!
CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice
This award recognizes excellence in the application of theory and research in practice.
Ranjay Gulati, Harvard Business School
SMS Educational Impact Award
This award recognizes excellence in contributing to the teaching mission in strategic management.
Pinar Ozcan, Oxford University
SMS Emerging Scholar Award
This award recognizes a relatively young or new scholar, who displays exemplary scholarship that promises to have an impact on future strategic management practice.
Mark DesJardine, Dartmouth College
SMS Service Award
This award is conferred in recognition of significant and enduring service that made an outstanding and distinguished contribution to the Strategic Management Society and its members.
Pamela Barr, Professor Emerita, Georgia State University
Video Abstract Award
This award recognizes excellence in the content and quality of a video abstract for research published in SMS journals in the preceding year.
Waverly Ding, University of Maryland, Hyeun Lee, University of Toronto, and Debra Shapiro, Northwestern University
“Are entrepreneurs penalized during job searches? It depends on who is hiring”
From the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Volume 17, Issue 4
SMS New Fellows
Mary Tripsas (UC Santa Barbara) has been elected to join the SMS Fellows, an honorary society that recognizes and honors members of the Strategic Management Society who have made significant contributions to the theory and practice of strategic management.
Global Strategy Journal Best Paper Prize
Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois) and Erica Salvaj (Universidad del Desarrollo)
“Political connections, the liability of foreignness, and legitimacy: A business historical analysis of multinationals’ strategies in Chile”
From the Global Strategy Journal Volume 8, Issue 3
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Prize
Raphael (‘Raffi’) Amit, University of Pennsylvania and Xu Han (“Henry”), College of New Jersey
“Value creation through novel resource configurations in a digitally enabled world”
From the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Volume 11, Issue 3
Strategic Management Journal Best Paper Prize
Clay Christensen, Harvard University and Joseph L. Bower, Harvard University
“Customer power, strategic investment, and the failure of leading firms”
From the Strategic Management Journal Volume 17, Issue 3
