2013 HBR McKinsey Awards

The HBR McKinsey Awards, judged by an independent panel of business and academic leaders, commend outstanding articles published each year in Harvard Business Review. The awards were established in 1959 to recognize practical and groundbreaking management thinking. Learn more at hbr.org/mckinseyawards. First Place The Focused Leader December 2013 Renowned psychologist Daniel Goleman looks at how leaders husband their most valuable resource: their own attention. Goleman is codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University and the author of Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. The Finalists “Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems October 2013 The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has arguably achieved the longest-running record of radical invention in history. Regina E. Dugan and Kaigham J. Gabriel, DARPA’s former director and deputy director, explain how. Dugan is now a vice president of engineering and the director of the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group at Google, and Gabriel is the deputy director of ATAP. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care October 2013 Michael E. Porter, one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy, and Thomas H. Lee, the former network president of Partners HealthCare, lay out a fundamentally new approach to addressing health care’s rising costs and uneven quality. Porter is the Bishop Lawrence University Professor at Harvard University, and Lee is the chief medical officer at Press Ganey. Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner April 2013 Excluding crowdsourcing from the corporate innovation tool kit means losing an opportunity. Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani describe how best to tap the power of the crowd. Boudreau is an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School and a research fellow at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS). Lakhani is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and the principal investigator of the Harvard-NASA Tournament Lab at IQSS. Judges Beth Comstock, Chief marketing officer, GE Boris Groysberg, Professor, Harvard Business School Joan Magretta, Senior institute associate, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School Roger Martin, Premier’s chair in productivity and competitiveness and academic director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management Michael Mauboussin, Managing director and head of global financial strategies, Credit Suisse Christopher Meyer, CEO, Nerve LLC Vineet Nayar, Founder, Sampark Foundation Alex “Sandy” Pentland, Professor and director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory and the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, MIT Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever Eric Ries, Entrepreneur and author, The Lean Startup Donald Sull, Senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management

2013 HBR McKinsey Awards

Partner Center