About Us

  		 
John E. Hughes/USASBE Award for Entrepreneurial Advocacy

← Return to the USASBE Awards page

Award named after its first recipient John E. Hughes. This award is presented to an individual or organization that has consistently contributed encouragement; support; physical, intellectual, and/or spiritual resources; time; talent and/or skills; development; and/or financial contribution to further the cause of entrepreneurship.

Year Winner University/Institution
2012 Patricia Greene Babson College
2011 Raymond Smilor Texas Christian University
2010 Steve Mariotti National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
2009 John Pappajohn  
2008 Fred Kiesner Loyola Marymount University
2007 Donald F. Kuratko Indiana University – Bloomington
2006 Gerald E. Hills University of Illinois at Chicago
2005 Robert Brockhaus The Brockhaus Group
2003 John Hughes John E. & Jeanne T. Hughes Foundation