Faculty

Nikos Trichakis won the 2018 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize. This award recognizes one or more outstanding paper(s) in optimization published by, or forthcoming in a refereed journal within the previous four years, authored by a young scholar (having obtained their last degree within the past eight years).  Trichakis’s winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford), is entitled, “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization” (Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2014): 130-147).

Nick Pudar  and Rodrigo Verdi (Accounting) 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."

Tom Kochan has won the Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. This annual award recognizes Kochan’s record of extensive and distinguished work mentoring PhD students (chairing dissertation committees for 24 students and serving on the dissertation committees of 20 others), which demonstrates not only his dedication to his students, but also his long-term impact on the field through them. 

The award citation notes that Kochan’s past doctoral students “highly value his enabling, inclusive and empowering mentoring style and his ability to provide tremendous emotional support to his students.” This award is sponsored by the Center for Executive Succession at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

The award was presented during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. A video of Kochan’s full acceptance speech, as well as some highlighted quotes from his remarks can be viewed in this article of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan.

A video of Kochan’s full acceptance speech, as well as some highlighted quotes from his remarks can be viewed in this article of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan.

 

Professor Thomas Kochan is one of several faculty members at MIT Sloan who have won the 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from The Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program. The other MIT Sloan winners are Barbara Dyer, Leigh Hafrey, and Christine Kelly. This award recognizes 10 exceptional courses, and honors faculty who are redefining business education, providing learning experiences that equip managers of tomorrow with the context, skills, and decision-making capabilities needed to lead in an increasingly complex business environment and world. The award celebrates innovative teaching that challenges conventional thinking and tests new approaches to divisive issues, rethinking the path forward for business and society and preparing students to make business decisions that create both financial and social value.

The winning course, 15.S02 “Bridging the American Divides: Work Community and Culture —USA Lab,” is MIT Sloan’s U.S.-focused Action Learning Lab, developed by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan in partnership with the MIT Mens et Manus America Initiative and MIT Sloan Action Learning.

Barbara Dyer, senior lecturer, is one of several faculty members at MIT Sloan who have won the 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from The Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program. The other MIT Sloan winners are Leigh Hafrey, Christine Kelly, and Thomas Kochan. This award recognizes 10 exceptional courses, and honors faculty who are redefining business education, providing learning experiences that equip managers of tomorrow with the context, skills, and decision-making capabilities needed to lead in an increasingly complex business environment and world. The award celebrates innovative teaching that challenges conventional thinking and tests new approaches to divisive issues, rethinking the path forward for business and society and preparing students to make business decisions that create both financial and social value.

The winning course, 15.S02 “Bridging the American Divides: Work Community and Culture —USA Lab,” is MIT Sloan’s U.S.-focused Action Learning Lab, developed by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan in partnership with the MIT Mens et Manus America Initiative and MIT Sloan Action Learning.

Valerie Karplus has won the 2019 U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Education Award, recognizing her outstanding teaching and research-advising contributions in the clean energy domain. This annual award is one of eight in different disciplines of clean energy leadership (research, entrepreneurship, law and finance, business, government, international, advocacy, and education) that honor mid-career women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and achievement in advancing and implementing clean and innovative energy solutions.  The awards are administered by the Texas A&M Energy Institute, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, who collaborate with the U.S. Department of Energy to implement the U.S. C3E Initiative, which aims to close the gender gap and increase the participation, leadership, and success of women in clean energy fields. 

John Van Reenen has won the 25^th Annual Research Award from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation, which supports innovative research with the potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. The NIHCM Research Award recognizes outstanding publications which further innovation in health care financing, delivery, and organization or the implementation of health care policy.

Van Reenen’s winning paper, co-authored with Zack Cooper (Yale University), Stuart V. Craig (University of Pennsylvania), and Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University), is entitled, “The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured” (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134 (1), February 2019, 51-107). The independent panel of experts who selected the winners “were impressed with the national reach of this work and its impact in transforming perceptions and raising public policy questions regarding antitrust enforcement.” 

The award was announced April 11, 2019.

In 2016, Van Reenen was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for “For services to Economics and Public Policy Making”.

In 2009, Van Reenen won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, awarded to best economist under the age of 45 “who has made a contribution that is significant to economics in Europe”. The prize is the most prestigious award in European economics: it is the European equivalent to the US Bates Clark Medal.

In 2011, Van Reenen was presented with the Arrow Prize (IHEA) for world’s best paper in health economics in 2010.