The Business Policy and Strategy (BPS) division of the Academy of Management requests nominations for the BPS Outstanding Educator Award to be given at next year’s annual meeting in San Antonio. The BPS Division has recognized outstanding educators since 1987. In 1991, the publishing company Richard D. Irwin established a $25,000 endowment for the award, thereafter named the Irwin Outstanding Educator Award. In 2008, the BPS division started to make this award on an annual basis.

This award is designed to recognize an established strategy scholar who has demonstrated a long-term commitment to and expertise in educating strategy students. Nominees should have at least 15 years of service since graduating from their own doctoral programs. In even years in which the Academy meetings are held, we will evaluate nominees with respect to their contributions to MBA and executive education. In odd years, we will evaluate nominees with respect to their contributions to Ph.D. and doctoral education. Since our next meeting will be in 2011, we are now soliciting nominations for scholars that have made significant contributions to doctoral education in strategic management.

Some manifestations of outstanding educator contributions might include:

  1. Demonstrated outstanding teaching capabilities over an extended period. The nominee needs to demonstrate mastery of the field and an ability to cultivate a strategic perspective in future business leaders, or the ability to enable future strategy scholars to conduct original research as well as teach effectively.(For example, former students might provide testimonials as to the impact that this individual had on their growth and development as a strategist or as a strategy scholar).
  2. Had an important impact on strategy pedagogy through demonstrated expertise or by developing new and different teaching methods or materials that were subsequently widely adopted by others. (For example, the person may have produced high-quality simulations, textbooks, business cases, or experiential exercises for strategy courses. Alternatively, the nominee may have been involved in administering a highly effective doctoral program in strategic management and/or being engaged with doctoral training in the BPS division).
  3. Cares deeply about the subject of strategic management, and about the intellectual development of his or her students.
Previous award winners are:
  • 1987: C. Roland Christensen (Harvard U)
  • 1989: James Brian Quinn (Dartmouth)
  • 1991: Charles Summer (U. of Washington)
  • 1993: Michael Porter (Harvard U)
  • 1995: William H. Newman (Columbia U)
  • 1997: David Jemison (U of Texas)
  • 1999: Arnold Cooper (Purdue U)
  • 2001: Michael A. Hitt (Arizona State U)
  • 2003: Donald C. Hambrick (Penn State U)
  • 2005: Jay Barney (Ohio State U)
  • 2007: Kathy Eisenhardt (Stanford U)
  • 2008: Pankaj Ghemawat (IESE)
  • 2009: Will Mitchell (Duke U)
  • 2010: Anita McGahan (U Toronto)

Please send your nomination(s) to William Judge, the Chair of the BPS Division Awards Committee, via e-mail ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) on or before January 10, 2011. Please note that previous award winners are not eligible. In your email please include a brief explanation as to why you are nominating the individual. Many thanks!

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