It was announced at the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession's (CSWEP) reception at the Allied Social Science Association Convention in Boston that Sandra Ohrn Moose, a Senior Vice-President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), is the second recipient of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. The Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created in January 1998 as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. Carolyn Shaw Bell, the Katharine Coman Chair Professor Emerita of Wellesley College, was the first Chair of CSWEP. The Bell award is given annually to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession, through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring of others.

Dr. Moose has had a distinguished business career with BCG. In 1963, she received her BA summa cum laude in economics from Wheaton College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. In 1968, she received her PhD in economics from Harvard University and joined BCG, serving as a director since 1975. She was in charge of BCG's New York Office from 1988-1998 and was appointed chair of the East Coast. In addition, she has other firm-wide administrative and practice responsibilities, including co-head of the East Coast consumer goods and retailing practice area. In the course of her career, she has consulted in a broad spectrum of industries dealing with a wide range of issues. Over the past ten years, she has been intensively engaged in the financial services, telephony and consumer goods industries. She is director or trustee of several business and charitable organizations, including GTE Corporation, Rohm and Haas Company, the Deaconess Medical Center, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Boston Public Library. She is also a member of The Economic Club, the Women's Forum, the Committee of 200, a nationwide organization of women business leaders, and the Council of the Harvard Graduate Society.

In the letters nominating her for the award Dr. Moose is described as a true trailblazer, someone who has served as an outstanding role model and done much to encourage the recruitment and advancement of women. Her notable accomplishments make her a worthy recipient of the second Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.

Carolyn wrote in the CSWEP 25th Anniversary Newsletter in Fall of 1997:
"We need every day to herald some woman's achievements, to tout a woman's book or painting or scholarly article, to brag about a promotion or prize and to show admiration for the efforts and influence of women, in their professional and technical and social and human endeavors of all kinds."

In the spirit of her words, the award requires that the "master" plaque be displayed prominently in a public place in the winner's local area so that others can see the achievements of the winner.

CSWEP represents women's points of views in the committee work of the American Economic Association (AEA), monitors the progress of women within the profession, and makes an annual report to the AEA on the status of women in economics. CSWEP associates are women and men in the diverse areas of the profession - in academia, government, and business. CSWEP has co-sponsored with the National Science Foundation Creating Career Opportunities for Female Economists (CCOFFE), a series of national and regional workshops which bring senior women economists together with junior female economists to form teams to improve their grant, research paper writing, and other professional skills.

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