Faculty

The University of Geneva is recognizing Henry “Jake” Jacoby with an honorary doctorate. He was proposed by the University’s School of Economics and Management, to honor his contributions in the area of climate change and in thanks for his strong ties with the School’s project in this area, related to the integration of natural and social sciences in policy analysis of the climate threat. The degree will be conferred in the fall of 2019.

Alexandre Jacquillat (Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor of Operations Research/Statistics) and Andrew Sutherland (Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Accounting) were each awarded the 2023 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching Award is the most prestigious teaching prize offered by the school. The award was established in 2006 and is awarded each year to two MIT Sloan faculty members, as well as two electrical engineering and computer science faculty members, for their contributions to educational excellence at MIT. The Jamieson faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

Alexandre Jacquillat has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for his work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Jacquillat won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Kara Blackburn, Vivek Farias, Michelle Hanlon, Miro Kazakoff, Ben Shields, and Rodrigo Verdi. 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. 

The Leonard G. Abraham Prize is given annually to the best original paper published in the past year in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Jim Orlin received the award for the paper, "Preconfiguring IP-over-Optical Networks to Handle Router Failures and Unpredictable Traffic," co-authored with Murali Kodialam, T. V. Lakshman, and Sudipta Sengupta.

Jared Curhan received the "Most Influential Article" award from the Academy of Management (Conflict Management Division) at its 73rd Annual Meeting held in Orlando in early August. The winning paper, entitled "What do people value when they negotiate? Mapping the domain of subjective value in negotiation," is co-authored with Hillary Anger Elfenbein and Curhan's MIT Sloan doctoral student, Alice Xu.

The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative’s Aggregate Confusion Project won the Institutional Investor’s 2022 Allocators’ Choice Award for Partnership of the Year.

The MIT award winners are:
Jason Jay (team leader; director of the Sustainability Initiative; senior lecturer);
Florian Berg (project co-founder; research scientist);
Julian Koelbel (project co-founder; research affiliate);
and Roberto Rigobon (Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics).

In addition to the MIT team, the initiative includes the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, Qontigo, MFS Investment Management, AQR Capital Management, and Asset Management One. The project works to reduce the level of noise in ESG (environmental, social, and governance) measurement by improving data available to managers and allocators.  More information about the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative’s Aggregate Confusion Project is online here.

Jim Orlin has won the ACM SIGecom Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on E-commerce) Test of Time Award, which recognizes papers published between 10 and 25 years ago that have had “significant impact on research or applications that exemplifythe interplay of economics and computation.” Orlin’s winning paper, (co-authored with John J. Bartholdi, III of Georgia Tech), is entitled “Single Transferable Vote Resists Strategic Voting.” The award committee characterized this paper as being one of two that in many ways catalyzed an entire field, noting its influence on the subfield of computational social choice.

AAAS Fellows are recognized by their peers for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. This honor recognizes Utterback's "distinguished contributions to the fields of technological and scientific innovation in engineering and industry through his longtime leadership efforts in research, teaching, and technology." The new AAAS Fellows were announced in the journal Science on November 29.

The papers being reprinted in the Classics Issue is: Peter Guadagni and John Little, "A Logit Model of Brand Choice Calibrated on Scanner Data," originally published in 1983. This Classics Issue celebrates foundation research that is highly cited. Editorials from Editors-in-Chief along with author commentaries are included with the articles in this special issue.

John Little was honored by friends, colleagues, former students, and many others at a "John D. C. Little Festschrift Celebration," which took place June 6-7 at the 2009 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference held at the University of Michigan. A festschrift is a volume of papers written to honor an individual, which in Little's case, will eventually include about 20 papers and be published in 2010. Among John's achievements, he is famous for Little's Law in queuing, decision calculus models for marketing managers, his paper on marketing decision support systems, and his role in creating marketing science as a field. Other well-known research by John includes papers on choosing advertising media schedules, adaptive control of promotional spending, brand-size choice models calibrated on scanner panel data, and marketing mix models for consumer packaged goods.