The 2023 Winner of the Mentorship Award: Blake Ashforth
Regents' Professor and Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair,
Department of Management and Entrepreneurship
W. P. Carey School of Business
Arizona State University
Blake Ashforth has made a tremendous impact on many scholars in the field. Nominators described him as “unique is his selfless kindness” and “one of the best mentors I have experienced, or even heard of” and “one of the warmest, most selfless, but simultaneously intellectually stimulating mentors I have ever had (and that I think exist in our field).” Everyone who nominated him emphasized that his mentorship extends not just to those he has an institutional affiliation with, but to anyone who reaches out to him – “While we were never at the same institution, Blake was a consistent positive presence throughout my graduate school experience”.