Faculty

Stewart Myers has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance, for his “foundational contributions to finance since the beginning of its transformation to a rigorous science-based discipline, nearly a half century ago.” The prestigious honor recognizes Myers for “his influential research on capital structure and capital budgeting valuation.”

Andrew Sutherland has won the Best Archival Paper Award from the American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section 2020 Midyear Meeting, for the best conference paper using archival research methods. Sutherland’s winning paper, co-authored with Jonathan Cook (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board), Zachary Kowaleski (University of Notre Dame), Michael Minnis (University of Chicago−Booth), and Karla M. Zehms (University of Wisconsin−Madison), is entitled, “Auditors are Known by the Companies They Keep.” 

Andrew Sutherland (Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Accounting) has received the 25th annual Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting and Ethics from the Steed School of Accounting at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business. This award recognizes outstanding unpublished work that is interdisciplinary in “contributing to the understanding of ethical concepts, and then applying this understanding to accounting issues in an effective way.”

Sutherland’s winning paper, entitled “Supervisor Influence on Employee Misconduct,” was co-authored with Zachary T. Kowaleski (University of Texas at Austin) and Felix Vetter (University of Mannheim).

Basima Tewfik won Best Conference Paper from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) in 2019. Tewfik won for her paper,  "The Help-Decliner’s Dilemma: How to Decline Requests for Help at Work without Hurting One’s Image." The paper's co-authors are Timothy Kundro and Philip Tetlock. The paper was presented at IACM 2019 in Dublin, Ireland.

Basima Tewfik (Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies) and Ray Reagans (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management; Professor of Work and Organization Studies; and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) have each won a 2022 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their innovative use of digital tools in their teaching. 

These student-nominated, student-judged awards recognize faculty and instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 207 nominations, and 15 winners were selected.
 

David Thesmar has won the 2017 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize. This annual award recognizes outstanding papers on corporate finance published in The Journal of Finance, the official publication of The American Finance Association. Thesmar’s winning paper, published in February 2017 and co-authored with Martin Schmalz (Michigan Ross) and David Sraer (Berkeley Haas), is entitled, “Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship” (The Journal of Finance, 72(1):99-132). The award was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association.

Nikos Trichakis won third place for the 2018 INFORMS TIMES (Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section) Best Working Paper Award, for “Blockchain and the Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance,” co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College), Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), Henry Aspegren (MIT MEng grad; Tsinghua University), and Mark Weber (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikolaos Trichakis has won the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Prize. Along with co-authors David Simchi-Levi (MIT) and Peter Yun Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University), Trichakis was honored for the paper, “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks.” The Koopman Prize is given for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year.

Nikos Trichakis won the INFORMS 2018 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) SIG (Special Interest Group) Best Paper Award. His winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford) and Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), is entitled, “Is Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt?” (Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 6 (June 2017): 1657-2048).

Dimitris Bertsimas (Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Professor of Operations Research, and Associate Dean for Business Analytics) has received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Athens, the largest and oldest university in Greece. This honor is particularly significant as it is only the 33^rd honorary doctorate given by the Department of Mathematics in its nearly 200-year history.

The degree was conferred on Bertsimas at the University of Athens in a ceremony in December 2021.