The paper entitled "The performance effects of board heterogeneity: what works for EU banks?"  by prof. Arnaboldi, Casu, Kalotychou & Sarkisyan has been awarded the Targa ADEIMF, a prize to research excellence assigned by ADEIMF (Associazione dei docenti di economia degli intermediari e dei mercati finanziari) at the Annual ADEIMF meeting in Cagliari, on September 7th and 8th.