Faculty

Joann de Zegher won the People’s Choice Award at the 2019 Early-Career Sustainable OM Workshop, where she presented her most recent working paper.  Her winning working paper, co-authored with Hamsa Bastani (Wharton), is entitled, “Do Policies with Limited Enforcement Reduce Harm? Evidence from Transshipment Bans.”

Dimitris Bertsimas has been named the 2016 IFORS Distinguished Lecturer by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.  He delivered this lecture at the 28th European Conference on Operational Research, at the Poznan University of Technology in Poland, on July 4, 2016.

Dimitris Bertsimas has received the 2016 Harold Larnder Prize, an annual award recognizing an individual who has achieved international distinction in operational research, from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). He delivered the Harold Larnder Memorial Lecture at the 58th Annual CORS Conference, at the Banff Centre in Canada, on May 30, 2016.

Dimitris Bertsimas’s teaching has been included in the "Class Central's Top 50 MOOCS of All Time” (2017 edition) list, based on thousands of reviews by Class Central users. MOOCs are Massive Open Online Courses, free to anyone with an internet connection. Class Central reports there are now over 8,000 MOOCs offered by around 750 universities worldwide. Bertsimas’s course 15.071x The Analytics Edge, delivered via edX, was one of four MIT courses  in the “Top 50 MOOCS of All Time” list. The award was announced last month in a Class Central blog post.

Doug Ready is a winner of the 2013 Thinkers50Award. The Thinkers50 list, published every two years, is a global ranking of individuals viewed as being among the most influential management thinkers in the world. The honor recognizes Ready’s many influential publications on talent management, leadership, and leading enterprise-wide change in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review over the past two decades.

Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, Miro Kazakoff, Andrew Lo, Arathi Mehrotra, Nikolaos Trichakis, Adrien Verdelhan, and Sean Willems have each won a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their work teaching on campus and/or remotely. 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 are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 230 nominations for 104 faculty and instructors, and 23 winners (35% from MIT Sloan) were selected by Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, in partnership with a panel of MIT students.  

 Dean Eckles has won a 2018 Amazon Research Award, which recognizes and funds outstanding research projects conducted by PhD students or postdocs under the supervision of the faculty member awardee. Research areas considered for the award are computer vision; economics; knowledge management and data quality; machine learning algorithms and theory; natural language processing; online advertising; operations research and optimization; personalization; robotics; search and information retrieval; security, privacy and abuse prevention; and speech.  Eckles’s awarded research project is entitled, “Complex modeling and inference with online rating data.”  The award winners and projects appear on this Amazon Research Awards page

Ed Roberts, together with his wife Nancy, received the 2021 Leaders in Philanthropy Award of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). The award citation honors “their extraordinary charitable giving to numerous organizations in Boston and throughout New England, which has not only greatly impacted their community, but also inspired countless others to give back.”

When presenting the award, David Woodruff, president of the Massachusetts AFP and MIT’s associate vice president and COO for Resource Development, praised Ed and Nancy Roberts for their decades of passionate support of the arts and education in Boston, citing their major gifts to numerous nonprofit organizations, including MIT, Lesley University, and Boston University, as well as the Huntington Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the music and theatre communities of the White Mountains.  

For 40 years, Nancy Roberts was a professor at Lesley University, where she pioneered the utilization of computers in the classroom, and for 60 years Ed Roberts has been a faculty member at MIT Sloan, with extensive contributions in advanced technology management and entrepreneurship.

"The Monosson Prize for Entrepreneurship Mentoring recognizes those who support and guid business pioneers who are blazing new pathways in entrepreneurship," and Ed was awarded for his extensive mentoring of aspiring entrepreneurs in the classroom and entrepreneurs active in the business world.

International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) has recognized Ed Roberts, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology, and Eric von Hippel, Professor of Management of Innovation, as two of the top 50 authors of technology and innovation management over the last 5 years. This exceptional achievement places Roberts and von Hippel within the top 1% of all researchers in the field.