The following is a list of Conference Awards. Please see the NACRA Awards Policy 2022 for more details.
| Conference Awards | Description |
|---|---|
| Best Case (Gold, Silver, Bronze) |
Awarded to top three cases presented at a NACRA conference. |
| Best Student-Authored Case | Awarded to a case whose author (s) are students |
| Best Newcomer Case | Awarded to best case by author/s attending their first NACRA conference. |
| Best Case Written in Chinese | Best case in track |
| Best Case Written in French | Best case in track |
| Best Case Written in Spanish | Best case in track |
| Ethics Case Award | Best ethics, CSR, governance, or sustainability case in any track. |
| Jonathan Welch Award | Outstanding case in accounting, finance, or economics; commemorates distinguished service to NACRA by Jonathan Welch. |
| Ruth Green Award | Best case where all authors’ primary affiliation is with institutions outside North America. |
| Curtis E. Tate Jr. Award and CRJ Case Awards | The Tate award, with a prize of $2,000, is given to the best CRJ case published in the preceding year’s volume. Recognition is also given to the second and third best cases published in the CRJ in the preceding year. |
Other NACRA awards include are the President’s Award for Outstanding Service, Distinguished Contributor Award, the Above & Beyond Award, and NACRA Fellow.
2023 Conference Award Winners
Gold: Facebook and the Future of Instagram Kids
Author (s): W. Scott Sherman, Randall D. Harris, Anne T. Lawrence
Silver: Sling Aircraft: Gearing Up for the Big Time
Author (s): McEdward Muriimbika, Amanda Bowen, Claire Beswick
Bronze: Creating a More Sustainable World with Livestock Water Recycling
Author (s): Brooke Klassen, Stephanie Yong
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Crypto and the Condo: Purchasing Real Estate Through the Second United States NFT Auction
Author (s): Charles M. Hilterbrand, Jr. Sergio Gárate
The Ruth Green Award: South Africa’s Solidarity Fund: Navigating the Shores of Uncertainty and Crisis
Author (s): Keratiloe Sishoma Mogotsi, Clare Mitchell
Ethics Case Award: Just Do It: Challenge Sneaky Conflicts
Author (s): Carolyn Conn, Sherron Watkins
Cases in Portuguese: Trade-offs da Sustentabilidade Corporativa: As Tensões do Tripé da Sustentabilidade
Author (s): Patricia Taeko Kaetsu, Júlia Mitsue Vieira Cruz Kumasaka, Tânia Casado
2022 Conference Award Winners
Gold: Caged or Cage-Free
Author(s): Karen Boroff, Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, Karen Meleta, Chief Communications Officer, Wakefern Corp., Paula Alexander, Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University
Silver: Mercado Libre and TuCarro.com
Author(s): Ignacio Osuna, Marketing and Operations Management, INALDE Business School, Javier Silva, Business School, University of San Andres
Bronze: Carol Aldana: Is it time to give up?
Author(s): Juan Parra, INALDE Business School, Claudia Alvarez, INALDE Business School
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Exchange rate crisis of Pakistan
Author(s); Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad, Lahore University of Management Sciences
The Ruth Green Award: JAC: The challenge of democratizing the electric car in Mexico
Author(s): Silvia Cacho-Elizondo, Marketing, IPADE Business School
Ethics Case Award: The American Contract Bridge League: How to catch and punish cheaters, online and off?
Author(s): Janis Gogan, Information & Process Management, Bentley University
Ashok Rao, retired, Rochester Institute of Technology
Cases in French: *SeventyOne Percent: from the beaches to the world* _Quelle stratégie de communication pour une marque de cosmétiques responsable et lifestyle ?
Author(s): Marie-Catherine Mars, EDHEC Business School, Victor Mejía, IUT, Laboratoire GRM, Université Côte d’Azur
Cases in Russian: Особенности управления франчайзинговой сетью на примере компании «Додо Пицца»
Features of the Franchise Network Management on the example of the “Dodo Pizza” Company
Author(s): Alima Buganova, Narxoz University
Cases in Portuguese: Na Rota de sol
Author(s): Eveline Iannarelli, Business Administration, Universidade de São Paulo, Tania Casado, Business Administration, Universidade de São Paulo
Cases in Chinese: Dahan Group: Develop New Business
Author(s): Zaiyang Xie, Zhejiang University of Technology, Roger Chen，University of San Francisco, William Wei，Fairleigh Dickinson University, Xiaohua Yang，University of San Francisco
2021 Conference Award Winners
Gold: Kehe Distributors LLC: The Shore Power Projec:
Author (s): Michelle DeMoss and Ram Subramanian
Silver: Boeing 2020: Firm Survival and Corporate Governance
Author (s): Randall D. Harris and Walter Scott Sherman
Bronze: Diablo Consulting Inc: Dissension in the Ranks
Author (s): Suneel Upda
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ENACTUSOC: Motivating a Student Leadership team During a Global Pandemic
Author (s): Kerry Rempel, Stacey Fenwick and Kyleen Myrah
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Buying a Caribbean Condo During a Pandemic: Valuing a Vacation Rental Property Using Free Cash Flows
Author (s): Louis Gattis
The Ruth Green Award: UNACEM
Author (s): Gustavo Calatrava and Javier J. O. Silva
Special Award for Innovation in Case Writing: The Monkey’s Breaking the Law? Exploring Employee Relations in the Midst of Interpersonal Conflict
Author (s): Robert A. MacDonald and Frannie Branswell
Ethics Case Award: S H E: Style Her Empowered
Author (s): Michael McCollough
Cases in Russian: Profound English School
Author (s): Krisitina Ryabova
2020 Conference Award Winners
Gold: Change in the time of COVID: Determining How a Lived Experience Circle on Homelessness Adapts Their Team Development Model
Author (s): Kyleen Myrah and Kerry Rempel
Silver: Urban Axes: First Mover in US Experiential Entertainment
Author (s): Marilyn Anthony and Shreshthi Mehta
Bronze: Throwback Brewery: Performance Appraisal Decisions to Ring in the New Year
Author (s): Danielle Clark, Armand Gilinsky Jr., and Allo Gilinsky
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Is This Recommendation In My Client’s Best Interest? Mutual Fund Selection Under Fiduciary Standards
Author (s): Jan Serrano and Marie DeVincenzo
The Ruth Green Award: MercadoLibre, Inc.—Fresh Products: In or Out?
Author (s): Javier J. O. Silva, Enrique Chamas, Eduardo Catalán Villegas
Best Newcomer Case: Love Books: Passion and Purpose Driving the Small Business of Paper Book Sales
Author (s): Verity Hawarden and Amy Moore
Ethics Case Award: Go Baby Go: Scaling a Social Movement around Mobility
Author (s): Maria Ballesteros-Sola and Stephanie Raible
The Best Student Authored Case: Vectra Digital: Capturing Artificial Intelligence Value after Adoption
Author (s): Chrissann Ruehle
Cases in Chinese: 猪”事可为：正邦生猪养殖业务模式创新 (Pig-breeding has a brilliant future: The business model innovation of Zhengbang swine industry)
Author (s): Fucai Lu, Jingbo Hu, Guanying Lin, Haibo Hu, Xin Wang, and Kevin Zhao
Cases in Spanish: Nutripunto y la propuesta de alimentos balanceados para Ubate
Author (s): Ignacio Osuna
2019 Conference Awards
Gold: Sizable: Crowdfunding Campaign! …Again
Author (s): Olga Kandinskaia and Nancy Huyghebaert
Silver: Scaling Columba Leadership’s Impact
Author (s): Michael Goldman, Maria Ballesteros-Sola, and Anthony Wilson-Prangley
Bronze: A Good Blockchain Shepherd?
Author (s): Janis Gogan and Howard Goode
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: EyeTrack: Envisioning Solutions
Author (s): Elizabeth Grace and Catherine Lycurgus
Cases in Chinese: The application of Value Stream Mapping in Low-Volume High Variety Enterprises
Author (s): Jianyu Zhang, Yinghua Zhang, and Hui Han
Cases in French: Sophie la Girafe : Comment continuer à grandir ?!
Author (s): Christine Kratz and Jacky Koehl
Cases in Spanish: La Fuerza De Ventas De Top Consulting
Author (s): Juan Parra and Cindy Pinzón
NACRA President’s Award for Outstanding Service: A. Kay Guess
2018 Conference Awards
Gold: Vista Outdoor: A Business Portfolio Under Stress
Author (s): John Lawrence
Silver: Snakes & Lattes
Author (s): Eric Dolansky
Bronze: Rules and Standards in Tax Incentives
Author (s): Michael Jones
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Zorbas Bakeries (Cyprus): Launching a New Concept Store in New York?
Author (s): Olga Kandinskaia
Cases in French: Pour vous depanner, AlloVoisins actionne 10 millions de sonneries!
Author (s): Catherine Lejealle
Cases in Spanish: ISA y la decision estratgica de InterNexa
Author (s): Ignacio Osuna and Cindy Pinzon
Best Newcomer Case: Walked into a Lamppost?
Author (s): Samantha Champagnie and Kristen Gallagher
2017 Conference Awards
Gold: ESSEN: Cooking Is Good for You
Author (s): Javier Silva and Gustavo Calatrava
Silver: Launching a Craft Cidery: High Quantity or High Quality?
Author (s): Kathryn Savage and Tierney Schipper
Bronze: Elzra Corporation
Author (s): Eric Dolansky
Ruth Green Award (for the best case by authors from outside North America): Veritas, The first Real Food Supermarket
Author (s): Alfred Vernis and Lourdes Urriolagoitia
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: Infiniti HR: Target or Acquirer?
Author (s): Karen Hallows and Sue White
Cases in French: Moustache Bikes
Author (s): Christine Kratz
Cases in Spanish: Ecoservices: Saneando La Cultura Interna
Author (s): Juan Parra
Best Newcomer Case: Ready or Not
Author (s): Terry McGovern
2016 Conference Awards
Gold: The Incident at Kabul
Author (s): Karen Boroff and Matthew Pratt
Silver: Peer Feedback at Stress Engineering Services
Author (s): Joseph Kavanagh, Sanjay Mehta, Donya Brewer, Kaitlyn Cole, and Matt Mistuc
Bronze: Redefining the Super Bowl
Author (s): Michael Goldman, Nola Agha, and Maximillian Duran
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Delta Plastics of the South: Conserving Water in the Delta
Author (s): David Graham Hyatt
The Jonathan Welch Memorial Award: The Almost Perfect CPA
Author (s): Carolyn Conn and Fred Tedesco
Ruth Green Award: Nissin Foods
Author (s): Ignacio Osuna Soto, Javier J.O. Silva, and Charles Muller Sanchez
Best Case Written in French: Kaviari:Le Caviar a L’etat Pur
Author (s): Ronald Kamin
Best Case Written in Spanish: TigoUNE: La centralidad del cliente en una integración cultural
Author (s): Ernesto Barrera and Natalia Arbelaez
2015 Conference Awards
Gold: General Motors
Author (s): Randall D. Harris and W. Scott Sherman
Silver: A Lapse of Judgment
Author (s): Syeda Maseeha Qumer, Debapratim Purkayastha, and Vijaya Narapareddy
Bronze: A Brand under Attack: The Boycott of Stoli Vodka and the Power of Social Media
Author (s): Grishma Shah, Janet L. Rovenpor and Musa Jafar
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Adam’s Ribs: An Adventure in Food Cartology
Author (s): Lisa Eshbach and Nancy M. Levenburg
Best Case Written in French: La Maison de Cognac Remy Martin
Author (s): Valentina Kirova and Marie-Noelle Rimaud
Ruth Green Award: KH Loreda: Internationalizing a Local Champion
Author (s): Josep Franch, Ivo Fink, and Augusti Casas.
Best Newcomer Case: Making the Case for Cargo Flights to Guadalajara
Author (s): Sarah Elizabeth Clark, Elisabeth Burgess, and Alejandro Allera Mercadillo.
Giving Voice to Values Award Refusing to Join the Looting Bandwagon
Author (s): Cynthia A. Ingols
Above and Beyond Award (For Outstanding Contribution to the NACRA Annual Conference): Javier Silva
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