Distinguished Service Award
This award is given annually in recognition of Professional Leadership in the scholarship and practice of Industrial Organization.
2025 Recipient
Shane Greenstein
Harvard Business School
Shane Greenstein is a pioneer of the economics of digitization and tireless servant of the profession — from founding the NBER Digitization Program to leading the IOS.
The prize committee of Francine Lafontaine, Severin Borenstein, and Ginger Jin cites Greenstein’s impressive record extending IO to strategy, regulation, history, marketing, IS, and organizational design; his seminal work and award‑winning book on the commercial internet; and his leadership launching the NBER Economics of Digitization Program. He has advised multiple U.S. agencies and served IOS as President, VP, and board member. These contributions make him our 2025 Distinguished Service honoree.
Past Recipients
2024
David Sappington, University of Florida
2023
Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan
2022
Christopher Snyder, Dartmouth College
2020 (awarded in 2021)
Margaret Slade, University of British Columbia
2019
William Rogerson, Northwestern University
2018
Michael Katz, University of California, Berkeley
2017
Lars-Hendrik Roller, Humboldt University
2016
Joseph Farrell, University of California, Berkeley
2015
Lawrence J. White, New York University
2014
Evan Kwerel, Federal Communications Commission
2013
Kenneth D. Boyer, Michigan State University
2012
John Kwoka, Northeastern University