Kellogg Alumni Choice Teaching Award, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 2006.
Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, Kellogg School of Management, 2016, 2010, 1995
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He has published over 50 articles in leading professional journals in economics and business. Professor Besanko's research covers topics relating to the intersection of competitive strategy and public policy, the economics of regulation, and the theory of the firm. At the Kellogg School, he has also received the Sidney J. Lavengood Professor of the Year Award in 1995, 2010, and 2016 he is the only three-time winner of this award since its inception in 1975 and the Alumni Choice Teaching Award in 2006. Besanko has received the two most prestigious teaching awards at the Kellogg School: the L.G. In 2015, Besanko received the Aspen Institute's Faculty Pioneer Award, sometimes referred to as the Oscars for the business school world. In 2013 he was a finalist for this award. Professor Besanko teaches courses in public economics and infrastructure strategy at the Kellogg School. In 1985, he was a member of the Economics Staff at Bell Communications Research. Before joining the Kellogg faculty in 1991, Professor Besanko was a member of the faculty of the School of Business at Indiana University from 1982-1991. He received his BA in Political Science from Ohio University in 1977. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences in 1982. Besanko is a Northwestern graduate, having received his Ph.D. Professor David Besanko is the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.