Faculty

Rodrigo Verdi and Nick Pudar (System Dynamics) were named co-winners of the MIT Sloan School Teacher of the Year for the 2020-2021 academic year. Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year's teaching awards for "exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan."

Rodrigo Verdi has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for his work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Verdi won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Kara Blackburn, Vivek Farias, Michelle Hanlon, Alexandre Jacquillat, Miro Kazakoff, and Ben Shields. These student-nominated awards recognize faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards were co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year, students submitted a total of 487 nominations for 232 faculty and instructors, and 30 winners were selected by Dean of Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, with help from MIT Open Learning staff. 

Swati Gupta won the Class of 1934 CIOS Honor Roll in both 2021 and 2020 at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gupta won this honor while she was an assistant professor and Fouts Family Early Career Professor there.

Swati Gupta received the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award in 2019. The CRII Award is a junior faculty award, and Gupta won it while she was an assistant professor at the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Swati Gupta won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Real-Time Decision Making, and was subsequently selected to be funded as a Microsoft Research Fellowship in the spring of 2018.

Gupta also won a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship for Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization in the fall of 2017.

The Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowships, given by the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley, are awarded to young scientists within five years of earning their PhD.

John Hauser has been recognized with an honorary doctorate from the Erasmus School of Economics at Erasmus University. Hauser was recognized in the laudatio as “one of the main founders of marketing science as a discipline.”  Hauser was also cited as one of the “most rigorous scholars in the field.” The degree was conferred in Rotterdam on November 8, 2016.

Rodrigo Verdi has received the 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, which recognizes “accounting research of exceptional merit that has significantly impacted the discipline over a period of at least five years.” Verdi was recognized for his 2008 paper (co-authored by Holger Daske, University of Mannheim, Luzi Hail, Wharton, and Christian Leuz, Chicago Booth) entitled,“Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences..”

John Hauser won the Buck Weaver Award from the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science in 2013. The Buck Weaver Award is an annual award that "honors distinguished scholars and practitioners who have excelled in the achievement of rigor and relevance in marketing science."

Swati Gupta won the Google India Women in Engineering Award in 2011. The Google India Women in Engineering Award began in 2008 as a way to recognize deserving women students in the field of Computer Science and Engineering.

John Hauser won the Churchill Award from the American Marketing Association, Market Research Special Interest Group, in 2011 for “Lifetime achievement in the academic study of marketing research.”