Alumni Achievement Awards

Alumni Achievement Awards have been awarded since 1968.

2026

2026 Award Recipients

H. Lawrence Culp Jr. (MBA 1990)
Chairman and CEO, GE Aerospace; Former Chairman & CEO, General Electric Company; Former President & CEO, Danaher Corporation

Paul J. Finnegan (MBA 1982)
Cofounder and Chairman, Madison Dearborn Partners

Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990)
Civic Partner and Former Chair, Baton Rouge Area Foundation; Cofounder, Echoing Green Fellowship; Cofounder, City Year, Inc.

The Honorable W. Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975)
US Senator from Utah, 2019–2025; Governor of Massachusetts, 2003–2007; Cofounder, Bain Capital

2025

2025 Award Recipients

Bonnie R. Cohen (MBA 1967)
Trustee, DC Public Libraries; Chair, DC Public Library Foundation; former Under Secretary of State for Management

Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
Vice Chairman, EMEA, General Atlantic; former Italian Minister for Innovation, Digital Transition, and Space

Deborah A. Farrington (MBA 1976)
Managing Partner and Cofounder, StarVest Partners LP

Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
Cofounder and Chairman, GMO; Founder, Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment

John Rice (MBA 1992)
Founder and CEO, Management Leadership for Tomorrow

2024

2024 Award Recipients

Peter O. Crisp (MBA 1960)
Co-Founder and former Managing Partner, Venrock Associates

John B. Hess (MBA 1977)
CEO, Hess Corporation

Desiree Rogers (MBA 1985)
Co-Owner, CEO, Black Opal LLC

Gerald W. Schwartz (MBA 1970)
Founder and Chairman, Onex Corporation

Gwill E. York (MBA 1984)
Founding Managing Director, Lighthouse Capital Partners

2023

2023 Award Recipients

Reshma Kewalramani, MD, FASN (GMP 18, 2015)
CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998)
COO and Treasurer, Ford Foundation; Founder, Moms of Black Boys United

Raymond J. McGuire (JD/MBA 1984)
President, Lazard

Antonis C. Samaras (MBA 1976)
Member, Hellenic Parliament; Greek Prime Minister, 2012–2015

Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972)
Chairman, CEO, and Cofounder, Blackstone

2022

2022 Award Recipients

Patricia C. “Tosh” Barron (MBA 1972)
Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation

Salman A. Khan (MBA 2003)
Founder and CEO, Khan Academy

Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982)
Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition

Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970)
Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc.

Robert B. Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963)
Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

2021

2021 Award Recipients

Ray Dalio (MBA 1973)
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates

H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA 1933), posthumous award
HBS Distinguished Service Award, 1987

Mezuo O. Nwuneli (MBA 2003)
Managing Partner, Sahel Capital Agribusiness Managers Ltd.; Cofounder, AACE Foods

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999)
Managing Partner, Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition; Cofounder, AACE Foods; Founder, LEAP Africa

Terry Virts (GMP 11, 2011)
Retired NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander

Deborah Winshel (MBA 1985)
Managing Director, Global Head of Social Impact, BlackRock

2019

2019 Award Recipients

Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

2018

2018 Award Recipients

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

2017

2017 Award Recipients

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

2016

2016 Award Recipients

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

2014

2014 Award Recipients

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998 / JD 1999
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

2013

2013 Award Recipients

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

2012

2012 Award Recipients

Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Franklin P. "Pitch" Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

2011

2011 Award Recipients

Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

2010

2010 Award Recipients

Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986
James Dimon, MBA 1982
Allan W. B. Gray, MBA 1965
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
Marvin S. Traub, MBA 1949

2009

2009 Award Recipients

William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
Kathryn E. Giusti, MBA 1985
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A. B. 1961
Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984
Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

2008

2008 Award Recipients

John Doerr, MBA 1976
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959

2007

2007 Award Recipients

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

2006

2006 Award Recipients

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

2005

2005 Award Recipients

Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

2004

2004 Award Recipients

D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

2003

James E. Burke, MBA 1949
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D., 57th PMD 1989
Howard E. Cox Jr., MBA 1969
William Elfers, MBA 1943
Daniel S. Gregory, MBA 1957
Henry F. McCance, MBA 1966
Charles P. Waite, MBA 1959

2002

Raymond V. Gilmartin, MBA 1968
Orin C. Smith, MBA 1967
Marjorie M. T. Yang, MBA 1976
Egon P. S. Zehnder, MBA 1956

2001

William F. Connell, MBA 1963
T. J. Dermot Dunphy, MBA 1956
Richard B. Fisher, MBA 1962
Amy Schiffman Langer, MBA 1977
Bert W. M. Twaalfhoven, MBA 1954

2000

Gordon M. Binder, MBA 1962
Peter A. Brooke, MBA 1954
Orit Gadiesh, MBA 1977
Robert L. Louis-Dreyfus, MBA 1973
Thomas G. Stemberg, MBA 1973

1999

W. Don Cornwell, MBA 1971
Bruce W. Ferguson, JD/MBA 1981
John F. Keane, Sr., MBA 1954
Arthur C. Martinez, MBA 1965
David W. Thompson, MBA 1981
Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, 90th AMP
Scott L. Webster, MBA 1981

1998

Ralph M. Barford, MBA 1952
Frank Batten, MBA 1952
David J. Dunn, MBA 1961
Ann M. Fudge, MBA 1977
Ellen R. Marram, MBA 1970
Robert F. McDermott, MBA 1950

1997

Matthew W. Barrett, 85th AMP
Charles A. Coverdale, MBA 1971
Victor K. Fung, Ph.D. '71 (Harvard University)
William W. George, MBA 1966
Stephen P. Kaufman, MBA 1965
Ruth M. Owades, MBA 1975
John C. Waddell, MBA 1965

1996

Scott D. Cook, MBA 1976
Marlene R. Krauss, MBA 1967
Andrew K. Ludwick, MBA 1969
Yawand-Wossen Mangasha, MBA 1956

1995

Jean Bernhard Buttner, HRPBA '58
Charles R. Lee, MBA 1964
Bert N. Mitchell, 10th OPM
Ratan N. Tata, 71st AMP
Thomas C. Theobald, MBA 1960

1994

Amos B. Hostetter, Jr., MBA 1961
Richard L. Menschel, MBA 1959
Donald M. Stewart, 91st AMP
William P. Wilder, MBA 1950
Richard P. Wollenberg, MBA 1938

1993

Elaine L. Chao, MBA 1979
Robert Cizik, MBA 1958
Walter Y. Elisha, MBA 1965
Charles D. Ellis, MBA 1963
Dean F. LeBaron, MBA 1960
Erling S. Lorentzen, MBA 1948

1992

Dennis F. Hightower, MBA 1974
K. J. Luke, MBA 1938
Dean O. Morton, MBA 1960
Robert D. Orr, MBA 1942
Frank Shrontz, MBA 1958
Harold Tanner, MBA 1956

1991

George B. Beitzel, MBA 1952
Robert M. Halperin, MBA 1952
Sandra L. Kurtzig, 4th OPM

1990

Daniel B. Burke, MBA 1955
Alain M. Gomez, 20th PMD
Thomas S. Murphy, MBA 1949
Jesse Philips, MBA 1939

1989

Vincent L. Gregory, Jr., MBA 1949
Christopher Hogg, MBA 1962

1988

Luther Foster, MBA 1936
John J. Nevin, MBA 1952
C. D. Spangler, Jr., MBA 1956

1987

Eneko de Belausteguigoitia, 85th AMP
Arthur Rock, MBA 1951

1986

Edson D. de Castro, MBA 1963
Carol R. Goldberg, 57th AMP
Peter Lougheed, MBA 1954
C. Peter McColough, MBA 1949

1985

Philip Caldwell, MBA 1942
William G. McGowan, MBA 1954
Kaneo Nakamura, 50th AMP
John S. R. Shad, MBA 1949

1984

Daniel Janssen, MBA 1962
Richard H. Jenrette, MBA 1957
Robert E. Kirby, MBA 1956
Burton G. Malkiel, MBA 1955

1983

Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., MBA 1955
Robert H. Malott, MBA 1950
Donald C. Platten, 50th AMP
Julia M. Walsh, 41st AMP

1982

William H. Draper III, MBA 1954
James L. Ferguson, MBA 1951
Roy M. Huffington, 76th AMP

1981

Fletcher L. Byrom, 21st AMP
Jaquelin H. Hume, MBA 1930
Rene McPherson, MBA 1952

1980

John W. Hanley, MBA 1947
John L. Weinberg, MBA 1950
John C. Whitehead, MBA 1947

1979

Walter A. Haas, Jr., MBA 1939
Samuel C. Johnson, MBA 1952
Lucius Theus, 57th AMP

1978

Henry B. Schacht, MBA 1962
Charles E. Spahr, MBA 1939
William H. Wendel, MBA 1940

1977

William M. Agee, MBA 1963

1976

Christiane Scrivener, 66th AMP

1974

Stewart S. Cort, MBA 1936

1973

Donald S. Perkins, MBA 1951

1972

Alden W. Clausen, 50th AMP

1971

Robinson F. Barker, 30th AMP
Edward W. Carter, MBA 1937

1970

Joseph C. Wilson, MBA 1933

1969

Charles F. Myers, Jr., MBA 1935

1968

Robert S. McNamara, MBA 1939