SMS Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is intended to honor the highest level of achievement in Strategic Management by a business leader. It is not an annual award and will only be given when an appropriate honoree is available. The honoree will receive a suitable plaque and will have the “citation of accomplishment” published in the Strategic Management Journal. In addition the honoree will be invited to give a lecture at the SMS Annual International Conference, which will be subsequently published in the Strategic Management Journal.
Award Criteria:
- The honoree must have demonstrated sustained strategic leadership and innovation that significantly altered strategy practice. In this regard, “sustained” means across business cycles. It is hard to envision this period being shorter than a decade.
- Furthermore, this leadership and innovation must be such that it significantly impacts strategy practice in industries beyond the home industry of the honoree, and is the subject of academic attention in major business schools.
- The honoree should be in the later stages of his/her career or be recently retired. Generally this would mean someone over 55 years of age, although occasional exceptions may occur.
The SMS Lifetime Achievement Award Committee will be composed of the Executive Committee of the SMS Board of Directors.
Past Winners
2003
- Herb Kelleher
- Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Southwest Airlines
2001
- Andrew S Grove
- Former CEO and current Chairman of the Board
- Intel Corporation