McKinsey Award Winners
| 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s |
| Year | First | Second |
| 1959 | Reuel Denney The Leisure Society | Donald R. Grant Illusion in Lease Financing |
| 1960 | Abram T. Collier Debate at Wickersham Mills | Theodore Levitt Marketing Myopia |
| 1961 | Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick Harrison, and Charles A. Myers Industrialism and World Society | Benjamin M. Selekman Businessmen in Power |
| 1962 | Peter F. Drucker Big Business and the National Purpose | Leland Hazard Can We Afford Our National Goals? |
| 1963 | Peter F. Drucker Managing for Business Effectiveness | James Brian Quinn and James A. Mueller Transferring Research Results to Operations |
| 1964 | Harold A. Wolff The Great GM Mystery | Charles H. Malik Ideals for Export |
| 1965 | Myles L. Mace The President and Corporate Planning | H. Igor Ansoff The Firm of the Future |
| 1966 | Jerrold G. Van Cise Regulation - By Business or Government? | Theodore Levitt Innovative Imitation |
| 1967 | H. Edward Wrapp Good Managers Don't Make Policy Decisions | James Brian Quinn Technological Forecasting |
| 1968 | Theodore Levitt Why Business Always Loses | Theodore V. Purcell Break Down Your Employment Barriers Gene E. Bradley What Businessmen Need to Know About the Student Left |
| 1969 | Melvin Anshen The Management of Ideas Harry Levinson | (none) |
| 1970 | George Cabot Lodge Top Priority: Renovating Our Ideology | Samuel A. Culbert and James M. Elden An Anatomy of Activism for Executives |
| 1971 | J. Sterling Livingston Myth of the Well-Educated Manager | Peter F. Drucker What We Can Learn from Japanese Management |
| 1972 | Theodore Levitt Production-Line Approach to Service | Myles L. Mace The President and the Board of Directors |
| 1973 | C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. Let's Get Back to the Competitive Market System | Bruce R. Scott The Industrial State: Old Myths and New Realities |
| 1974 | George Cabot Lodge Business and the Changing Society | Peter F. Drucker New Templates for Today's Organizations |
| 1975 | Henry Mintzberg The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact | Martin S. Feldstein Unemployment Insurance: Time for Reform |
| 1976 | David C. McClelland and David H. Burnham Power Is the Great Motivator | Robert N. Anthony A Case for Historical Costs |
| 1977 | Abraham Zaleznik Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? | Thomas D. Flynn Why We Should Account for Inflation |
| 1978 | Alfred C. Neal Immolation of Business Capital Richard Tanner Pascale | (none) |
| 1979 | Michael E. Porter How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy | Rosabeth Moss Kanter Power Failure in Management Circuits |
| 1980 | Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy Managing Our Way to Economic Decline | Andre Benard World Oil and Cold Reality John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter |
| 1981 | William J. Abernathy, Kim B. Clark, and Alan M. Kantrow The New Industrial Competition | Peter F. Drucker Behind Japan's Success |
| 1982 | Robert H. Hayes and David A. Garvin Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered | Bruce R. Scott Can Industry Survive the Welfare State? |
| 1983 | David A Garvin Quality on the Line | Robert Jackall Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work |
| 1984 | Richard J. Boyle Wrestling with Jellyfish | Robert S. Kaplan Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production |
| 1985 | James Brian Quinn Managing Innovation: Controlled Chaos | Pierre Wack Scenarios: Uncharted Waters Ahead |
| 1986 | Wickham Skinner The Productivity Paradox | William H. Peace I Thought I Knew What Good Management Was |
| 1987 | Michael E. Porter From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy | Henry Mintzberg Crafting Strategy |
| 1988 | George Stalk, Jr. Time - The Next Source of Competitive Advantage | Christopher W. L. Hart The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees |
| 1989 | Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad Strategic Intent | Felice N. Schwartz Management Women and the New Facts of Life Michael C. Jensen |
| 1990 | William Wiggenhorn Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education | Charles H. Ferguson Computers and the Coming of the U.S. Keiretsu C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel |
| 1991 | Andrew S. Rappaport and Shmuel Halevi The Computerless Computer Company | John Seely Brown Research That Reinvents the Corporation |
| 1992 | Charles Handy Balancing Corporate Power: A New Federalist Paper | Charles F. Knight Emerson Electric: Consistent Profits, Consistently |
| 1993 | James Moore Predators and Prey: A New Ecology of Competition | David A. Garvin Building a Learning Organization |
| 1994 | Chris Argyris Good Communication That Blocks Learning | Peter F. Drucker The Theory of the Business |
| 1995 | Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave | Charles Handy Trust and the Virtual Organization |
| 1996 | Gary Hamel Strategy as Revolution | Michael Porter What Is Strategy? |
| 1997 | Stuart L. Hart Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World | Arie de Geus The Living Company Philip B. Evans and Thomas S. Wurster |
| 1998 | Joan Magretta The Power of Virtual Integration: An Interview with Dell Computer's Michael Dell | Timothy A. Luehrman Strategy as a Portfolio of Real Options C. K. Prahalad and Kenneth Lieberthal |
| 1999 | John Hagel III and Marc Singer Unbundling the Corporation | Gary Hamel Bringing Silicon Valley Inside |
| 2000 | Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? | Michael Maccoby Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons Juan Enriquez and Ray A. Goldberg |
| 2001 | Michael Porter Strategy and the Internet | John Hagel and John Seely Brown Your Next IT Strategy |
| 2002 | Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes The Failure - Tolerant Leader | Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy |
| 2003 | Sydney Rosen, Jonathan Simon, Jeffrey R. Vincent, William MacLeod, Matthew Fox, and Donald M. Thea AIDS Is Your Business | Roderick M. Kramer The Harder They Fall |
| 2004 | Peter F. Drucker Ken Dychtwald, Tamara Erickson, and Bob Morison | Hau L. Lee The Triple-A Supply Chain |
| 2005 | Pankaj Ghemawat Regional Strategies for Global Leadership | Steven J. Spear Fixing Health Care from the Inside, Today |
| 2006 | Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility | Gary Hamel The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation |
| 2007 | Jeb Brugmann and C.K. Prahalad Cocreating Business’s New Social Compact | Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones Leading Clever People Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli |
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