McKinsey Award Winners for Best HBR Articles

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M c K i n s e y A w a r d W i n n e r s f o r B e s t H B R A r t i c l e s
For the past 43 years, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has offered awards for
the best articles published each year in HBR. These awards, judged by an independent panel of
leaders in the business community, recognize outstanding works that are likely to have a major
influence on the actions of business managers worldwide.
A look back over all the McKinsey Award winners—since 1959—provides a history lesson in the
development of management thinking over recent decades.
To explore any of these articles, go to www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/adv_search.asp.
Year
Author
Article
2001
Michael E. Porter
“Strategy and the Internet”
Clayton M. Christensen,
“Skate to Where the Money Will Be”
Michael Raynor,
and Matthew C. Verlinden
John Hagel III and John Seely Brown
“Your Next IT Strategy”
2000
Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones
“Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?”
Michael Maccoby
“Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros,
the Inevitable Cons”
Juan Enriquez and Ray A. Goldberg
“Transforming Life, Transforming Business:
The Life-Science Revolution”
1999
John Hagel III and Marc Singer
“Unbundling the Corporation”
Gary Hamel
“Bringing Silicon Valley Inside”
1998
Joan Magretta
“The Power of Virtual Integration:
An Interview with Dell Computer’s Michael Dell”
Timothy A. Luehrman
“Strategy as a Portfolio of Real Options”
C.K. Prahalad
“The End of Corporate Imperialism”
and Kenneth Lieberthal
1997
Stuart L. Hart
“Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World”
Arie de Geus
“The Living Company”
Philip B. Evans
“Strategy and the New Economics of Information”
and Thomas S. Wurster
1996
Gary Hamel
“Strategy as Revolution”
Michael E. Porter
“What Is Strategy?”
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1995
Joseph L. Bower
“Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave”
and Clayton M. Christensen
Charles Handy
“Trust and the Virtual Organization”
1994
Chris Argyris
“Good Communication That Blocks Learning”
Peter F. Drucker
“The Theory of the Business”
1993
James F. Moore
“Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition”
David A. Garvin
“Building a Learning Organization”
1992
Charles Handy
“Balancing Corporate Power: A New Federalist Paper”
Charles F. Knight
“Emerson Electric: Consistent Profits, Consistently”
1991
Andrew S. Rappaport
“The Computerless Computer Company”
and Shmuel Halevi
John Seely Brown
“Research That Reinvents the Corporation”
1990
William Wiggenhorn
“Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education”
Charles H. Ferguson
“Computers and the Coming of the U.S. Keiretsu”
C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel
“The Core Competence of the Corporation”
1989
Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
“Strategic Intent”
Felice N. Schwartz
“Management Women and the New Facts of Life”
Michael C. Jensen
“Eclipse of the Public Corporation”
1988
George Stalk, Jr.
“Time—The Next Source of Competitive Advantage”
Christopher W.L. Hart
“The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees”
1987
Michael E. Porter
“From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy”
Henry Mintzberg
“Crafting Strategy”
1986
Wickham Skinner
“The Productivity Paradox”
William H. Peace
“I Thought I Knew What Good Management Was”
1985
James Brian Quinn
“Managing Innovation: Controlled Chaos”
Pierre Wack
“Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead”
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1984
Richard J. Boyle
“Wrestling with Jellyfish”
Robert S. Kaplan
“Yesterday’s Accounting Undermines Production”
1983
David A. Garvin
“Quality on the Line”
Robert Jackall
“Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work”
1982
Robert H. Hayes
“Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered”
and David A. Garvin
Bruce R. Scott
“Can Industry Survive the Welfare State?”
1981
William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark,
“The New Industrial Competition”
and Alan M. Kantrow
Peter F. Drucker
“Behind Japan’s Success”
1980
Robert H. Hayes
“Managing Our Way to Economic Decline”
and William J. Abernathy
Andre Benard
“World Oil and Cold Reality”
John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
“Managing Your Boss”
1979
Michael E. Porter
“How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Power Failure in Management Circuits”
1978
Alfred C. Neal
“Immolation of Business Capital”
Richard Tanner Pascale
“Zen and the Art of Management”
1977
Abraham Zaleznik
“Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?”
Thomas D. Flynn
“Why We Should Account for Inflation”
1976
David C. McClelland
“Power Is the Great Motivator”
and David H. Burnham
Robert N. Anthony
“A Case for Historical Costs”
1975
Henry Mintzberg
“The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact”
Martin S. Feldstein
“Unemployment Insurance: Time for Reform”
1974
George Cabot Lodge
“Business and the Changing Society”
Peter F. Drucker
“New Templates for Today’s Organizations”
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1973
C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
“Let’s Get Back to the Competitive Market System”
Bruce R. Scott
“The Industrial State: Old Myths and New Realities”
1972
Theodore Levitt
“Production-Line Approach to Service”
Myles L. Mace
“The President and the Board of Directors”
1971
J. Sterling Livingston
“Myth of the Well-Educated Manager”
Peter F. Drucker
“What We Can Learn from Japanese Management”
1970
George Cabot Lodge
“Top Priority: Renovating Our Ideology”
Samuel A. Culbert
“An Anatomy of Activism for Executives”
and James M. Elden
1969
Melvin Anshen
“The Management of Ideas”
Harry Levinson
“On Being a Middle-Aged Manager”
1968
Theodore Levitt
“Why Business Always Loses”
Theodore V. Purcell
“Break Down Your Employment Barriers”
Gene E. Bradley
“What Businessmen Need to Know About
the Student Left”
1967
H. Edward Wrapp
“Good Managers Don’t Make Policy Decisions”
James Brian Quinn
“Technological Forecasting”
1966
Jerrold G. Van Cise
“Regulation—By Business or Government?”
Theodore Levitt
“Innovative Imitation”
1965
Myles L. Mace
“The President and Corporate Planning”
H. Igor Ansoff
“The Firm of the Future”
1964
Harold A. Wolff
“The Great GM Mystery”
Charles H. Malik
“Ideals for Export”
1963
Peter F. Drucker
“Managing for Business Effectiveness”
James Brian Quinn
“Transferring Research Results to Operations”
and James A. Mueller
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1962
Peter F. Drucker
“Big Business and the National Purpose”
Leland Hazard
“Can We Afford Our National Goals?”
1961
Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop,
“Industrialism and World Society”
Frederick Harbison,
and Charles A. Myers
Benjamin M. Selekman
“Businessmen in Power”
1960
Abram T. Collier
“Debate at Wickersham Mills”
Theodore Levitt
“Marketing Myopia”
1959
Reuel Denney
“The Leisure Society”
Donald R. Grant
“Illusion in Lease Financing”
To explore any of these articles, go to www.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/adv_search.asp.
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