Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar Award

The Department of Management at the University of North Texas is proud to honor internationally acclaimed scholars with the Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar Award. The award was originally given in 1993 to bring leading Management scholars to meet the UNT community and to present their latest research to faculty and students alike. Since its inception the department has had the fortune to give the award to some of the brightest minds and most successful management scholars in the world, a list of recipients is given below.

Dr. Raymond E. Miles, who holds an AB in Journalism and an MBA in Industrial Relations from UNT, is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkley. He has published six books and over fifty articles in a variety of areas including: leadership and managerial philosophies, organizational development and design, and alternative arrangements of strategy, structure and process. He has been named a Fellow in the Academy of Management and sits on the Board of Directors of several organizations including Union Bank of California and Granite Construction.

Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients:

Dr. Albert A. Cannella, Jr

Dr. Albert A. Cannella, Jr., the Earl P. and Ethel B. Koerner Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Tulane University was honored as our Distinguished Scholar for Fall 2009.  He spoke to our faculty and doctoral students about his current research, “Fighting while Shaking Hands:  The Antecedents of Alliance Formation between Rivals.”  Dr. Cannella’s work has been published numerous times in premier journals in the field of management including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.  We were honored to have him as our guest and look forward to maintaining our relationship with him in the future.