Slater Family Lecturer of the year prize

The Slater Family Lecturer of the Year Prize is awarded to an outstanding scholar whose work is relevant to management and related disciplines.

Management is an interdisciplinary field that examines how organizations function and evolve, drawing on research in strategy, leadership, economics, and organizational behavior.

Past winners – 2022. Professor Mathew Jackson (Stanford University) – How social networks Affect Belief, Opportunities and inequalities.

2023-2025 – The prize was not awarded.

About Ken Slater

• Ken is the managing principal in a family-owned, multigenerational real estate and investment firm with real estate holdings primarily in New England, Canada, and Texas. He is a member of the Massachusetts and Florida Bars. Ken’s family was one of the 1366 members of the New York Stock Exchange until it went public in 2006. Ken has an undergraduate degree from McGill University, and while working full time, obtained a law degree from New England School of Law.

Ken joined the board of trustees at Boston University in the last couple of years. His father, Alvin Slater (CAS’41), was involved with the University for more than 50 years. In  2005, Alvin Slater and his wife, Shirley, funded the Alvin J. Slater and Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies.

• Ken is a member of the Global Advisory Council for the Woodrow Wilson Center, a non-partisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for the policy community.

Left: Professor Mathew Jackson, first Slater Family Lecturer of the Year Prize awardee. Middle: Mr Ken Slater. Right: Professor Ran Smorodinski (dean at the time)