Howard E. Aldrich, Kenan professor and chair of sociology in UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences, won a mentoring award from the entrepreneurship division of the national Academy of Management.
Aldrich, who also is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Kenan-Flagler Business School, was honored in August for his work with graduate students at the academy’s annual meeting in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was “Doing Well by Doing Good.”
Aldrich, who has been at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1982, researches entrepreneurship, the origins of new organizational populations, gender differences in business management and organizational evolution. Among his research projects is a study of the process by which entrepreneurial teams are founded, and it focuses on the similarity and differences between team members.
He has served on the boards of a number of startup companies, particularly in the high-tech and information technology sectors.
In 2000, the academy’s organization and management theory division recognized Aldrich for a distinguished career of scholarly achievement. That same year, his book “Organizations Evolving” won the academy’s best management book award.
Founded in 1936, the academy serves more than 18,000 members in 102 nations.
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu