Summa Cum Laude

One of only seven instructors across the UW to receive its highest teaching honor, Beard displays tireless dedication to student development, coaching case competition teams, advising organizations and leading study tours in addition to her undergraduate courses in marketing and international business.

A researcher of world-class reputation, Bond will set the agenda for research published in the preeminent scholarly journal in the field of finance when he joins its top editorial team in June 2016. He’s one of 37 Foster faculty members currently leading the editorial review process at a top-tier academic journal.

Brogaard’s status as an international expert in high frequency trading is confirmed with this award recognizing his influential paper connecting hyper-fast computerized trading with improved price discovery in the financial markets.

A prolific and influential researcher, Burgstahler will lead the premier professional association of accounting academics in the world in 2016-17.

Chen is only the ninth winner of this international award that recognizes extraordinary career contribution to the creation and dissemination of management knowledge with a focus on China.

Karpoff is one of only eight recipients of this international award from the influential Drexel Center; company includes serious contenders for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Koski is the first three-time winner of Foster’s highest teaching award which was established in 1998 by PACCAR Inc. Her three wins have come at the intervals of 2001, 2008 and 2015.

The HR Division of the Academy tallies Lee’s career—85 papers in top journals, co-author of seminal job embeddedness theory, past president of the Academy of Management and editor of the Academy of Management Journal—and says “bravo!”

One more career accolade for the former Foster associate dean and FASB member who co-authored 19 books and more than 100 journal articles and won the Wildman Medal from the American Accounting Association.

Another of only seven instructors across the UW system to receive the university’s highest teaching honor, Panke peppers her graduate entrepreneurship courses with case studies and industry experts, equipping students to navigate the ambiguity germane to new ventures.

It’s the third time in five years that Palmatier has won the Stern Award, this time in recognition of his influential 2007 Journal of Marketing paper on the drivers of successful inter-organizational relationship performance.

In addition to being named a Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar and winning the AMA’s Paul E. Green and Donald R. Lehmann Awards in the past three years, Rutz finds himself among the most prolific scholars in the field of marketing for the second time.

When the greenest school in America calls you out for your contribution to sustainability, it’s something special. Stearns teaches a course in sustainability, advises Foster’s Net Impact club, and inspires MBAs to consider the economic, social and environmental impact of every business decision.

Tan’s achievement in information systems research has earned him one of the most prestigious academic awards in China and a chaired visiting professorship at the nation’s elite Tsinghua University.