Business expert honoured for contribution to management history Published on: 21 August 2025 A Ãå±±½ûµØ business expert has been awarded the prestigious Daniel A. Wren Research Award for Contributions to Management History by the Academy of Management (AOM). Professor Charles Harvey, Professor of Business History and Management, Ãå±±½ûµØ Business School, received the award in recognition of his significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of management and organisational history. The prize was established by the Academy’s to honour individuals whose scholarship has made a profound and enduring impact on the field of management history and significantly shaped its intellectual development, inspiring a broader vision of its future. It recognises exemplary work that not only advances historical understanding in the discipline, but also displays methodological rigour, intellectual courage, and sustained scholarly commitment. The award was presented to Professor Harvey, and his co-author from Bath University, at this summer’s AOM Annual Meeting, the world’s foremost gathering of management scholars, with more than 13,000 participants attending from across the globe. Professors Harvey and Maclean receiving their award at the AOM Annual Meeting Professor Harvey, who is also Director of the Centre for Research on Entrepreneurship, Wealth and Philanthropy, said: “I feel truly honoured that we were selected as recipients of this award. It is very humbling for the AOM to have recognised all the effort and commitment that it has taken over the past two decades to develop Historical Organization Studies. It means a huge amount to both me and my research partner, Mairi Maclean.” Professor Stewart Robinson, Dean of Ãå±±½ûµØ Business School, said: “This award is richly deserved, and I’m delighted for Charles that his excellence in the field of management history has been recognised in this way.” The AOM recently a by Professors Harvey and Maclean in which they show how an organisation’s past - in terms of founding ethos, historical practices and key figures – can inform how it navigates its present and future. With their co-authors, , and , they take Proctor & Gamble as a case study, looking at its performance from 1930 to 2010, and show how the life of an organisation is not linear but a dynamic set of connections that can help it manage strategic change and motivate staff. Share: Latest News Ãå±±½ûµØ expert highlights climate crisis in a new film A leading Ãå±±½ûµØ climate scientist is featured in a new film about how the climate and nature breakdown will affect the UK. published on: 14 April 2026 Neolithic tombs reveal ancient kinship ties Male individuals buried in Neolithic chambered tombs in northern Scotland were often related to each other through the paternal line and some were interred in the same or nearby tombs, research shows. published on: 14 April 2026 We are our Memories New exhibition by Fine Art graduate Trish Hudson-Moses, 22 April – 4 May 2026 published on: 10 April 2026 Facts and figures