Award Winners
2025 Marco van Gelderen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for “ Enterprising Skills”
2024 Boris Nikolaev (Colorado State University) for “ AI and Strategic Value Creation”
2023 Derek Lidow (Princeton University) for the “ History of Entrepreneurship”
2022 Deepak Hegde (New York University) for the “ Endless Frontier Labs"
2021 Erin Scott (MIT), Joshua Gans (University of Toronto), and Scott Stern (MIT) for “ Entrepreneurial Strategy”
2020 Betsy Campbell (Pennsylvania State University) for “Accelerator Rap”
2019 Derek Lidow (Princeton University) for “Creativity, Innovation, and Design”
2018 Abby Fifer Mandell (University of Southern California) for “Social Innovation Design Lab”
2017 Charlotte R Ren (Temple University) for “The Social Entrepreneurial Approach to Community Reintegration”
2016 Ethan Mollick (University of Pennsylvania) for “Alternate Reality Teaching of Entrepreneurship”
2015 Craig Armstrong (University of Alabama) for “New Venture Development from Opportunity to Crowdfunding Campaign”
2014 Lisa Jones Christensen (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) for “Sustainability Leadership”
2013 Reginald A. Litz (U. of Manitoba) for “Entrepreneurship as a tool of liberation and oppression”
2012 Linda Sama (St. John’s University) for “’GLOBE’ (Global Loan Opportunities for Budding Entrepreneurs), an undergraduate social entrepreneurship course”
2011 Eric Noyes (Babson College), Heidi Neck (Babson College) & Steve Schiffman (Babson College) for “Social Entrepreneurship by Design”
2010 Noam Wasserman (Harvard University) for “The Founder’s Dilemma”