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:
- 1993 – Dr. Raymond E. Miles
- 1995 – Dr. John B. Cullen
- 1995 – Dr. Nina Gupta
- 1995 – Dr. G. Douglas Jenkins, Jr.
- 1995 – Dr. Richard A. Cosier
- 1997 – Dr. Charles C. Snow
- 1998 – Dr. Barbara B. Flynn
- 1999 – Dr. Dennis W. Organ
- 2001 – Dr. William Glick
- 2002 – Dr. David L. Olson
- 2005 – Dr. W.C. Benton
- 2005 – Dr. Michael Hitt
- 2009 – Dr. Albert A. Cannella, Jr
- 2010 – Dr. Richard A. Cosier
- 2012 – Dr. Kimberly Eddleston
Dr. Kimberly Eddleston
2012 – Dr. Kimberly Eddleston
Dr. Kimberly Eddleston from Northeastern University spoke to our faculty and doctoral students in the Department of Management on November 9, 2012 as our Raymond E. Miles Distinguished Scholar. Her presentation was entitled, “The Family in Family Business: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” Dr. Eddleston is the Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor and the Daniel and Dorothy Grady Research Fellow at Northeastern. In addition she is a Research Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. She has published numerous articles in premier journals, and currently serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Family Business Strategy.



