Harvard Business Review is pleased to announce the 2012 McKinsey Award winners Since 1959, McKinsey & Company and Harvard Business Review have presented annual awards recognizing the best articles published each year in the magazine. First Place “Accelerate!” November 2012 by John P. Kotter, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School Second Place “The New Science of Building Great Teams” April 2012 by Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a professor at MIT and the director of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program