We are delighted to announce the winners of our 30th annual Awards and Competitions, celebrating excellence in case writing and teaching at schools of business, management and government worldwide.
The 2020 results are characterised by increasing diversity, especially in numbers of women achieving success, and also by record numbers of individuals and institutions winning their first Award or Competition. Check out our infographic below to find out more.
Congratulations to all our winners! We hope you enjoy finding out more about them.
Winners in full
Competition winners
Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria
Steven Sweldens, Stefano Puntoni, Niela Kleinsmith and Tao Yue, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Matthieu Campion, TomTom Automotive
Zoe Kinias and Felicia A Henderson, INSEAD
Alexander Korchagin, Independent author
Vera Cherepanova, Studio Etica
Award winners
Herminia Ibarra, Aneeta Rattan and Anna Johnston
London Business School
Peter Debaere
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Horacio Falcão and Heather Grover, INSEAD
Kriti Jain, IE Business School
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas and Ana Roncha
London College of Fashion
Adam Smale, University of Vaasa
Ingmar Björkman and Johanna Saarinen, Aalto University School of Business
Debapratim Purkayastha and Vinod Babu Koti
ICFAI Business School (IBS)
Ayelet Israeli and Jill Avery
Harvard Business School
Debapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao
ICFAI Business School (IBS)
W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne and Michael Olenick
INSEAD
Erwin Hettich and Günter Müller-Stewens
University of St. Gallen
What's trending?
2020 reflects growing diversity in business education. For the first time there are equal numbers of male and female Award/Competition winners: 17 male and 17 female. The preceding four years averaged just 29% of female winners
The results also showcase advancing female diversity in case protagonists across the Awards – now at a record 31%.
There were a record nine first-time, winning institutions (in 2019: five), and a record 22 first-time, individual faculty/research winners (in 2019: 18).
