HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Engell wins Ness Book Award

The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has awarded its Frederic W. Ness Book Award to James Engell, the Gurney Professor of English Literature and professor of comparative literature, for his book with Anthony Dangerfield, “Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money.” An analysis of the growing influence of money on educational priorities in higher education, the book raises timely issues about the perceived value of education in today’s world.

The Ness Award is given annually for the book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.

HBS-affiliated work named top management book

“From Resource Allocation to Strategy” (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Joseph L. Bower, the Donald Kirk David Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, has been named the best management book of 2006 by Strategy + Business magazine. The culmination of research Bower pioneered more than three decades ago, the book examines “how managers actually develop organizational strategy rather than how they ought to develop it,” according to the magazine.

‘Redefining Health Care’ collects Hamilton Award

“Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results,” by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, a senior institute associate at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been awarded the 2007 James A. Hamilton Award by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). Given annually, the award honors a management or health care book deemed most outstanding. “Redefining Health Care” presents a new model for the ailing U.S. health care system that focuses on improving value for patients as measured by health outcomes per dollar expended.

Hart honored for research on entrepreneurship

M.B.A. Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Emerita Myra Hart has been named a recipient of the 2007 FSF-NUTEK Award, an international prize for research on entrepreneurship and small business. The Swedish Business Development Agency and the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research (FSF) award the prize annually. Hart received the prize along with four other members of the Diana Group, a team of women from several institutions who work together to investigate the unique challenges and opportunities of female entrepreneurs. Together, these researchers have published more than 150 articles, book chapters, and papers on entrepreneurship, including more than 35 on women's entrepreneurship.

Fryer awarded Sloan Award

Assistant Professor of Economics Roland Fryer Jr. recently received the prestigious Sloan Award in the field of economics. Sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, these awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. The seven areas include chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Fryer is the associate director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

KSG student awarded prestigious press award

Kennedy School of Government (KSG) student Sareena Dalla was recently awarded a $2,000 Overseas Press Club (OPC) Foundation scholarship at the foundation's annual scholarship luncheon in New York City. A panel of leading journalists selected Dalla (and 11 others) from a pool of applicants representing 65 colleges and universities.

Dalla won the Theo Wilson Scholarship, named for the legendary New York Daily News reporter, for her essay describing how journalists could best serve as a voice for those that lack one by understanding history through the eyes of the people affected.

The OPC Foundation is the nation's largest and most visible scholarship program encouraging aspiring journalists to pursue careers as foreign correspondents.

MIND recognizes Cure Alzheimer's Fund with first philanthropic award

Established in 2001 by members of the Harvard Medical School faculty, the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) recently recognized the Cure Alzheimer's Fund with its first Philanthropic Innovation and Investment Award. The award recognizes donors who have made substantial commitments to visionary work that cannot be funded through other sources but has the potential to radically change scientific thinking and drug discovery for neurodegenerative disease.

The Cure Alzheimer's Fund, which aims to slow, stop, or reverse the disease by 2016, has generously supported Massachusetts General Hospital's Alzheimer's research labs, including MIND's Genetics and Aging Research Unit. Harvard scientists at the Genetics and Aging Research Unit are working to identify the full set of Alzheimer's genes by 2008.

Compiled by Andrew Brooks. Send Newsmakers to andrew_brooks@harvard.edu.