RSM's Honorary Doctorates

  • 2008 Professor Hau Lee

    A world leader in supply chain management, Professor Lee has been instrumental to the development of many innovations and initiatives in his specialist fields.
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  • 2005 Professor Richard H. Thaler

    Professor Richard H. Thaler was conferred with an honorary doctorate by RSM in 2005, in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the relatively new field of behavioural finance in which he is an undoubted pioneer.
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  • 1998 Professor Peter Checkland

    Professor Checkland was conferred with an honorary doctorate in 1998 by the Faculteit Bedrijfskunde in recognition of his work in management science, specifically his development of Soft Systems Thinking and the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM).
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  • 1993 Professor Michael E. Porter

    Often cited as being the father of modern strategy, Professor Porter is seen as one of the world’s most influential thinkers in the areas of management and competitiveness.
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  • 1988 Professor Anton C.R. Dreesman

    Considered something of an entrepreneurial legend in his native Netherlands, he was the grandson of Anton Dreesman, who, with his brother-in-law and partner Willem Vroom, founded the department store chain that still bears their names (V&D).
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