Harry was elected EurOMA Fellow in recognition of his contribution to Operations Management research and education in Europe, and as a sign of respect for his service to EurOMA and to the Operations Management community in Europe. So far, the fellowship has been granted to eight leading Operations Management scholars.

EurOMA was established in 1993, with Harry Boer as one of the founding members. He has been a board member from 1993 to 2007, and has organized, and been a faculty member of, EurOMA's annual Doctoral Seminars since 2002 as well as the association's Young Scholars Workshops since 2009. In recognition for his contribution to the development of early stage researchers, the Harry Boer Best Student Paper Award was established in 2009.

Professor Raffaella Cagliano (Politecnico di Milano and EurOMA President) handing the Honory EurOMA Fellowship certificate to Professor Harry Boer at the EurOMA Conference (Cambridge, June 2011).