The Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division

And McGraw Hill

Present the

Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award

The Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division and McGraw Hill present an annual award ($1500) to the person(s) who develops and implements an innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy for either graduate or undergraduate education.  The innovation must be a full course or program of courses that is focused on entrepreneurship.   Although innovations of individual exercises are certainly valuable, they will not be considered for this award. 

The purpose of the award is to encourage not only innovations in pedagogy, but also dissemination of such innovations.   Criteria for evaluation of nominations include the novelty/innovativeness of the pedagogy; how transferable it is to other schools or professors; and support for the nomination from students, alumni, administrators, the community, etc.

Self-nominated proposals are encouraged!  Nominations should include the following materials:

¨       a 100 word abstract of the innovation

¨       a 3-5 page description of the innovation, including why it is novel and transferable

¨       any supporting exhibits including supporting letters from students or other educators who have experienced or used the new pedagogy (please limit this to no more than 5 supporting documents. Lengthy supporting documentation is not encouraged.)

¨       Nominations and supporting exhibits should be submitted electronically to the Award Chair, so that materials can be shared with the entire Award Committee.

Submissions must be received by May 31, 2009.  The nominations will be judged by members of the Entrepreneurship Division Teaching Committee, and the winner will be notified by the end of June.  The award winner must attend the annual Academy of Management Conference to receive their award at the Entrepreneurship Division Business Meeting.

Please direct nominations and questions to:           

Linda Edelman – Award Chairperson

Bentley University                                                                                                                                        

e-mail: ledelman@bentley.edu

Phone: 781-891-2530

Committee Members:

Melissa Cardon, Pace University

Heidi Neck, Babson College

Andrew Corbet, RPI

Tom Mierzwa, Univ. of Maryland

Jeff McMullen, Univ. of Indiana      

Linda F. Edelman

Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Bentley University

319 Adamian Academic Center

175 Forest Street

Waltham, MA 02452-4705

781-891-2530

ledelman@bentley.edu