High Achievers

The Bud Fackler Service Award recognizes contributions to the Executive MBA Council and to Executive MBA Programs worldwide, including efforts to help other programs, to share best practices, and to raise the level of Executive MBA Programs.

The council named the award after Bud Fackler, the late director of the Executive MBA Program at the University of Chicago, one of the council’s founders, and the recipient of the inaugural award in 1987.

The council announces the Bud Fackler Award winner at its annual conference. The list of past winners includes the following outstanding leaders.

Bud Fackler Award Recipients

1987
Bud Fackler, University of Chicago

1988
Howard Lyons

1989
Tom Ference, Columbia

1990
Ernie Scalberg

1992
Chuck Hickman, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International

1993
Ed Wilson, Northwestern

1995
Susan Bunker, University of Colorado

1996
Kathryn Carlson, University of Minnesota
Dave Ewert, Georgia State University

1998
Norm Berman, New York University

1999
George Abraham, University of New Hampshire

2000
Martin Rapisarda, Vanderbilt
Erica Kantor, Northwestern

2001
Penny Oslund, University of North Carolina
Connie Rieben, Wisconsin

2002
Dave Poole, Pepperdine and Chapman

2003
Marci Armstrong, Southern Methodist University

2004
Graduate Management Admission Council

2005
Cathy Molony, Wharton

2006
Michael Saewitz, Campus Text

2007
Maury Kalnitz, first Executive MBA Council managing director