2010 EDISON ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS
A.G. Lafley & Dr. Susan Hockfield

The Edison Achievement Award recognizes distinguished business executives who have made a significant and lasting contribution to innovation, marketing and human-centered design throughout their careers. This honor is bestowed among the elite within corporate America because the Edison Achievement Award winners' accomplishments serve as an inspiration industry wide.

2010 Edison Achievement Award Winners

A.G. Lafley is the retired Chairman, President, and CEO of Procter & Gamble. Lafley led the transformation of P&G during the nine years he served as CEO. He focused the Company on core businesses and brands, faster-growing and higher-margin beauty, grooming and health care businesses, and winning in developing markets. He made P&G a more consumer-driven and externally focused company. And, he helped shape a more diverse, open and collaborative culture in which innovation is the primary driver of business and financial growth.

Dr. Susan Hockfield has served as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since December 2004. A strong advocate of the vital role that science, technology, and the research university play in the world, she believes that MIT can best advance its historic mission of teaching, research, and service by providing robust and sustained support for the ideas and energies of its faculty and students.

Sample of Past Winners

• David Kelley, Founder and Chairman IDEO
• Dr. Susan Desmond Hellmann, President New Product Development Genentech
• Ted Turner, Vice Chairman Time Warner Inc.
• Reuben Mark, Chairman and CEO Colgate-Palmolive
• Martha Stewart, Chairman Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, LLC.
• J.W. Marriott Jr. Chairman and CEO Marriott International
• Nolan Archibald, Chairman and CEO Black and Decker
• Arthur Martinez, Chairman and CEO Sears, Roebuck and Company

These awards are granted under the aegis of the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University, a globally recognized research network dedicated to the study of innovation and its application in the 21st Century.