POMS Best Paper/ Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management Award 2012
The paper « Decentralization and Earmarked Funding in Humanitarian Logistics for Relief and Development » won the best paper award competition for the Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management track.

The paper is a joint work of KLU’s Professor Maria Besiou, Professor Pedraza-Martinez from Indiana University and INSEAD Professor Luk N. van Wassenhove. Both, Professor Besiou and Professor Pedraza-Martinez are visiting scholars at INSEAD and were former postdoctoral research fellows at the Social Innovation Centre.

European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition 2011 - European Categories/ Corporate Social Responsibility 2011 Award

« Walmart: Love, Earth » by N. Craig Smith and Robert J. Crawford.

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European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition 2010 - European Categories/ Corporate Social Responsibility 2009 Award

« Agility: A Global Logistics Company and Local Humanitarian Partner » by

Rolando M. Tomasini, Margaret Hanson and Luk N. Van Wassenhove.

European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition 2010 - European Categories/ Supply Chain Management 2009 Award

« The Yogyakarta Earthquake: IFRC's Experiences with the Regionalized Supply Chain » by Aline Gatignon, Luk N. Van Wassenhove and Aurelie Charles.

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European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition - European Categories/ Corporate Social Responsibility 2009 Award

« Hayleys PLC: Focusing on Corporate Responsibility » by Luk Van Wassenhove and Mark Lee Hunter.

 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition - European Categories/ Public Sector Innovations 2009 Award

 « Safety in Numbers: Reducing Road Risk with Danida's Multi-Sector Partnership » by Gatignon Aline and Luk Van Wassenhove.

 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition - European Categories/African Business Cases 2009 Award

« Paving the Road to Healthy Highways: A partnership to Scale up HIV & AIDS Clinics in

Africa » by Aline Gatignon and Luk Van Wassenhove.

 Lifetime Achievement Award 2009

Aspen Institute Centre for Business Education - European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS). The Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 meant to recognize European Faculty Pioneers has been received by Professor Luk Van Wassenhove.

The Faculty Pioneers Awards recognise that the commitment of business school faculty is critical in ensuring the mainstreaming of social and environmental issues in business education and practice. Since 2003, Aspen has partnered with EABIS to honour European faculty members who have demonstrated great vision and outstanding leadership in integrating social and environmental issues into research, teaching, student communities and corporate practice.

 Manufacturing Service Operations Management Society Distinguished Fellows Award 2009

The award established to recognise outstanding research and scholarship in operations management has been received by Professor Luk Van Wassenhove.

 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College on Sustainable Operations - PhD Proposal Competition 2009

The PhD proposal competition has the purpose of highlighting the most promising PhD research projects in the field of sustainable operations and providing visibility to the doctoral students carrying out these initiatives. The winner of the PhD Proposal Competition 2009 is Alfonso Pedraza Martinez, PhD Humanitarian Research Group.

Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Skinner Award 2009 Professor Paul Kleindorfer and Nitin Bakshi of London Business School received the Production and Operations Management Society Skinner Award 2009 for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management: “Co-opetition and Investment for Supply-Chain Resilience” POMS 18 (6) p.583-603.

 Production Planning & Control Award 2009

Professor Luk Van Wassenhove, Marc Chouinard, Daoud Aït-Kadi, and Sophie D’Amours 2009 received the Best Paper Award 2009 for Production Planning & Control: “Conceptual Framework for the Design and Management of Value Loops”, published in Production Planning & Control, Vol. 20, No. 8, 2009, pp. 703-723.

 Teaching Achievements Award 2009

Rolando Tomasini and Professor Luk Van Wassenhove have been given the award for their series of cases, articles, reports and courses developed on Humanitarian Logistics. Together they have published 30 case studies, 15 articles, reports and a book. Their material has been widely adopted by several schools including INSEAD, Georgia Tech, Hanken, Cranfield, Georgetown, and Dartmouth. Several humanitarian organisations like United Nations Joint Logistics Center and the International Federation of the Red Cross have adopted the material for their internal management training. As we hear of disasters in countries such as Haiti and Chili, it is gratifying to know that members of our profession are turning their skills to contribute to addressing the OM issues related to meeting humanitarian needs.

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 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition 2008

Professor Mark Lee Hunter and Professor Herminia Ibarra received the EFMD Award 2009 in the Entrepreneurship Category with "Vivienne Cox at BP Alternative Energy (A)".

 IDEA Award 2008

Professor Filipe Santos received the IDEA Award 2008 for the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management in the category of Research Promise with "Constructing Markets and Shaping Boundaries: Entrepreneurial Power in Nascent Fields".

 Outstanding Teacher for Elective Courses/ INSEAD EMBA Programme Award 2008
The award has been received by Professor Filipe Santos.

 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition 2008

Professor N. Craig Smith received the EFMD Award 2008 in the Ethics and Social Responsibility Category with "The Wal-Mart Supply Chain Controversy".

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