About the Bradford-Osborne Research Award
Bill Bradford (left) and Al Osborne (right)
Named for its founders, William “Bill” Bradford and Alfred “Al” Osborne Jr. who, over their 40+ year careers, have published more than 60 research articles focused on entrepreneurs of color and the dynamics of their businesses. Their funding of this award is yet another of their many innovations.
Bill is an Emeritus Dean and Emeritus Professor of the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Al is the founder and faculty director of the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management where he is also a Professor of Global Economics, Management, and Entrepreneurship. In addition to recognizing groundbreaking research, the award seeks to stimulate additional research, provide public and corporate policy makers with insights to guide decision-making, and equip business support organizations to deliver impactful programming.
This award is carefully curated and administered by UW Foster Consulting and Business Development Center.
2024 Winner
Revealing and Mitigating Racial Bias and Discrimination in Financial Services
Dr. Maura Scott is the Dr. Persis E. and Dr. Charles E. Rockwood Eminent Scholar in Marketing in the Dr. Persis E. Rockwood School of Marketing at Florida State University’s College of Business (Ph.D. Arizona State University, M.S., and B.S. Purdue University). Her research interests include consumer behavior, consumer and societal well-being, public policy, and services marketing. Her research examines how to help improve consumers’ financial, health and food decisions, particularly among vulnerable populations.
Dr. Scott is joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPP&M). She also serves as associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing Research, and area editor for the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. She previously served as associate editor for the Journal of Marketing. She is an editorial review board member of leading journals including the Journal of Marketing and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Joint authors:
Sterling Bone, Glenn Christensen, Anneliese Lederer, Martin Mende, Brandon G. Christensen, and Marina Cozac.
2024 Award Ceremony
The award will be presented on April 27, 2024, at the University of Washington Foster School of Business in Seattle, WA.
Previous Award Winners
2023 Can FinTech reduce disparities in access to finance? Evidence from the paycheck protection program by Professor Isil Erel and Jack Liebersohn
2022 Black and White: Access to Capital Among Minority-Owned Start-ups by
Robert Fairlie, Alicia Robb, and David T. Robinson
2021 The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions by Robert Fairlie
2020 The Colorblind Crowd? Founder Race and Performance in Crowdfunding by
Peter Younkin and Venkat Kuppuswamy
Lifetime Leadership Award
Timothy Bates
Distinguished Professor of Economics, Wayne State University (ret.)
Since 1973, Tim has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed articles, 30 articles in the business and popular press, and five books on issues related to entrepreneurs of color. Before teaching at Wayne State, he was Chair of the Urban Policy Analysis graduate programs and Professor of Urban Policy Analysis at the New School for Social Research, and Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Vermont. He has also taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.
2025 Call for Submissions
The Bradford-Osborne Research Award aims to advance scholarly research on entrepreneurship and business ownership by under-represented minority individuals, families, and communities in the United States. Papers published in peer-reviewed journals over the last four years (2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) will be considered. The award recipient(s) will receive a $5,000 prize and present their paper in 2025 at an awards ceremony at the University of Washington M.G. Foster School of Business. The Foster School will provide travel expenses for this presentation. For co-authored papers, the prize will be shared by the lead authors.
The application is now closed. Call for submissions will open in late November 2024.
Contact
For questions about submission or general topics on the award, please contact Jasper Kinnay at [email protected]