Olin Business School awards are given to honor outstanding achievement. Recipients of the awards listed below are selected based on a variety of factors, and the selection process may include one or more of the following criteria: faculty vote, overall academic record and course performance.
- The Charles F. Knight Scholar Awards are presented to the top 7.5% of MBA graduates. This distinction is based on the percentage of credit hours receiving High Pass (HP) grades.
- The top 20% of graduates in each program are invited to join the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society. This distinction is based on the percentage of HP grades earned through the Fall semester of your final year. Grades earned in your final Spring semester are not used to determine the Beta Gamma Sigma award.
- The Dean’s Special Service Award is presented to those students or student organizations that have rendered extraordinary service to the school.
- The Dean’s Award for Corporate Social Responsibility recognizes a graduating MBA student who has demonstrated outstanding scholarship, leadership and/or practice in the area of corporate social responsibility.
- The Hubert C. “Hub” Moog Prize is awarded to the graduating MBA who, in the opinion of their fellow students, best exemplifies qualities of character, leadership and service, and who also enjoys the respect, admiration and affection of their classmates.
- The John Wayne Latchum Memorial Award is awarded to a graduating MBA who has best exemplified the qualities of integrity, loyalty, courage and high standards of personal conduct as judged by the faculty.
- The Joseph W. Towle Prize in Organizational Leadership is awarded to the student with the strongest academic achievement in the area of organizational leadership.
- The Milford Bohm Prize is presented to an outstanding graduate student in the field of marketing as judged by the marketing faculty.
- The Paul Cuffe MBA Award for Outstanding Leadership is awarded to a graduating African-American MBA student for outstanding leadership, academic excellence and involvement in Olin extracurricular activities.
- The Powell Niland Prize in Operations and Manufacturing is awarded to the student with the strongest academic achievement in the area of operations and manufacturing management.
- The Olin MBA Finance Award is presented to an outstanding student in the area of finance.