The STR Outstanding Educator Award (created in 1987) recognizes a scholar who has demonstrated a long term commitment to and expertise in educating Strategy students. The award alternates each year between Ph.D./doctoral education and MBA/executive education. In even years like this one, STR evaluates nominees with respect to their contributions to MBA/executive education in strategic management, including evidence of outstanding teaching capabilities, an important impact on teaching pedagogy, and/or a deep passion about the subject. Before 2024 the award name was Irwin Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2024 the award changed name to STR Outstanding Educator Award.
STR Outstanding Educator Award
Irwin Outstanding Educator Award Recipients
2023
Aks Zaheer, University of Minnesota
2022
Margarethe F. Wiersema (University of California, Irvine)
2021
Edward J. Zajac (Northwestern U.)
2020
Jan W. Rivkin (Harvard U.)
2019
David C. Mowery (U. of California – Berkeley)
2018
Sharon Oster (Yale University)
2017
Glenn Carroll (Stanford University)
2016
Gautam Ahuja (University of Michigan)
2015
Dan Levinthal (University of Pennsylvania)
2014
Myles Shaver (University of Minnesota)
2013
Bernard Yeung (National University of Singapore)
2012
Henry Mintzberg (McGill University)
2011
Joseph T. Mahoney (University of Illinois)
2010
Anita McGahan (University of Toronto)
2009
Will Mitchell (Duke University)
2008
Pankaj Ghemawat (Harvard University)
2007
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford University)
2005
Jay Barney (The Ohio State University)
2003
Donald Hambrick (Pennsylvania State U.)
2001
Michael Hitt (Arizona State University)
1999
Arnold Cooper (Purdue University)
1997
David Jemison (University of Texas-Austin)
1995
William Newman (Columbia University)
1993
Michael Porter (Harvard University)
1991
Charles Summers (University of Washington, Seattle)
1989
James Brian Quinn (Dartmouth College)
1987
C. Roland Christensen (Harvard University)