Featured Awards
KidneyX EMPOWER: Living Link Prize award
DonorForward: Turning unused donor readiness into non-directed kidney transplants. A structured identification and decision aid system to expand the living donor pool.
2026 Jack Treynor Prize
The Q Group’s annual Jack Treynor Prize recognizes superior academic working papers with potential applications in the fields of investment management and financial markets. Each year, Q awards three prizes for prepublication working papers produced by post-doctoral researchers who are employed full-time by academic institutions. The Prize was first instituted in 2014.
Faculty Commitment to Excellence Award
The Columbia Business School (CBS) Executive MBA Faculty Commitment to Excellence Award is an honor established by the EMBA Class of 1991 in memory of Professor Margaret K. Chandler. It is presented to faculty members who make exemplary, outstanding contributions to the EMBA class experience.
AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for Responsible Research in Marketing
This award honors outstanding research that produces both credible and useful knowledge that can be applied to benefit society. A diverse team of scholars with input from dozens of subject matter expert reviewers selected the winners out of a pool of over 30 nominations. The winning work exemplifies the Seven Principles of Responsible Research that support the general notion of “better marketing for a better world.”
These principles include:Service to Society: Development of knowledge that benefits business and the broader society, locally and globally, for the ultimate purpose of creating a better world.Valuing Both Basic and Applied Contributions: Contributions in both the theoretical domain to create fundamental knowledge and in applied domains to address pressing and current issues.Valuing Plurality and Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Diversity in research themes, methods, forms of scholarship, types of inquiry, and interdisciplinary collaboration to reflect the plurality and complexity of business and societal problems.Sound Methodology: Research that implements sound scientific methods and processes in both quantitative and qualitative or both theoretical and empirical domains.Stakeholder Involvement: Research that engages different stakeholders in the research process, without compromising the independence of inquiry.Impact on Stakeholders: Research that has an impact on diverse stakeholders, especially research that contributes to better business and a better world.Broad Dissemination: Diverse forms of knowledge dissemination that collectively advance basic knowledge and practice.Funded via support from the AMA and EBSCO, the award is co-sponsored by the Sheth Foundation and presented in cooperation with Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM). Both Distinguished Winners and Winners receive grant money to continue their efforts in the field.
Finalist for Best Paper Award at Journal of Consumer Research
This grant highlights exceptional achievements and Areas of Expertise. This curated acknowledgement showcases Columbia Business School's commitment to fostering valuable research, insights, and knowledge.
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Finalist for Best Paper Award at Journal of Consumer Research
This grant highlights exceptional achievements and Areas of Expertise. This curated acknowledgement showcases Columbia Business School's commitment to fostering valuable research, insights, and knowledge.
2026 Jack Treynor Prize
The Q Group’s annual Jack Treynor Prize recognizes superior academic working papers with potential applications in the fields of investment management and financial markets. Each year, Q awards three prizes for prepublication working papers produced by post-doctoral researchers who are employed full-time by academic institutions. The Prize was first instituted in 2014.
Honorary Doctorate
This grant highlights exceptional achievements and Areas of Expertise. This curated acknowledgement showcases Columbia Business School's commitment to fostering valuable research, insights, and knowledge.
Jensen Prize for the best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Financial Economics
The Jensen Prize, awarded annually by the journal, recognizes the top two papers across the fields of corporate finance, organizations, capital markets, and asset pricing. The prize is named after economist Michael C. Jensen, a pioneer in agency theory and co-founder of the journal.
KidneyX EMPOWER: Living Link Prize award
DonorForward: Turning unused donor readiness into non-directed kidney transplants. A structured identification and decision aid system to expand the living donor pool.
Notable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award
The award recognizes one paper each year for an outstanding contribution to the management accounting literature. The selection considers the paper’s relevance to management accounting theory, practice, or instruction; its broad appeal; originality and innovativeness; contribution to knowledge; and impact on other research.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute Senior Fellowship
The award has been given for Nataliya Wright's research on the role of frontier entrepreneurial firms’ strategic choices in the global diffusion of AI.
2026 Illinois Strategic Organizations Initiative (ISOI) Best Paper Award
The ISOI Best Paper Award is an annual academic honor presented by the Illinois Strategic Organizations Initiative (ISOI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Gies College of Business. It recognizes outstanding, transdisciplinary research that bridges fields like strategic management, organization theory, and social psychology.
Future of Finance Award
Bruno Pellegrino (CBS) and Damien Capelle (IMF) were selected as the inaugural recipients of the AFA Future of Finance Award for the paper "Unbalanced Financial Globalization" which will be presented in a Special Session at the 2027 AFA Annual Meeting.
The Future of Finance Award recognizes those who have written a paper that is both innovative and creative, and that challenges existing approaches in financial economics. These criteria include novel methodology (including theory and econometrics) and interdisciplinary approaches.
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2026 FARS Midyear Meeting Excellence in Reviewing Award
To recognize reviewers that demonstrate excellence in reviewing papers as part of the paper selection process for the FARS Midyear Meeting and AAA Annual Meeting. An excellent review is one that is comprehensive, clear, constructive, and civil; i.e., it provides valuable and detailed feedback for improving the paper in a way that is not demeaning to the authors and that is comparable to a review written for a journal submission.