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Maybury-Lewis receives Swedish award

David Maybury-Lewis, professor of anthropology and curator of South American Ethnology in the Peabody Museum, received the Anders Retzius gold medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography this spring. The medal is named for the first president and founder of the society, and it is awarded to an anthropologist every few years. Previous recipients of the award have been Fredrik Barth of Oslo University in Norway and Jack Goody of Cambridge University in England.

His majesty the King of Sweden presented the gold medal to Maybury-Lewis. The occasion was marked by a symposium dealing with major themes of Maybury-Lewis' work and a banquet. At the symposium, entitled, "anthropology, Ethnicity and Indigenous Rights," Maybury-Lewis spoke on "The Cultural Survival of Indigenous Peoples: Theoretical Issues and Practical Considerations."

Knoll receives honorary degree from Lehigh

Andrew H. Knoll, professor of biology and chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, received an honorary doctor of science degree from Lehigh University at its commencement ceremonies. Knoll was honored for his paleontological contributions to our understanding of early life on Earth.

Business School authors win accolades

Nitin Nohria, co-author of The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation (Jossey-Bass), has won the 1998 Terry Award from the Academy of Management. The award recognizes the Academy's choice of The Differentiated Network as the year's best academic book on management.

The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management (HarperBusiness), cowritten by Professor Christopher A. Bartlett, is the winner of the Igor Ansoff Strategic Management Award.

Two Business School faculty members gained top honors at the Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Book Awards. Associate Professor Clayton Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Harvard Business School Press) was named best business book overall as well as best "how-to" book. Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur (Free Press) by Professor John P. Kotter was judged the best business biography/autobiography.