Faculty

Don Lessard (Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, Emeritus; Professor of Global Economics and Management, Emeritus; and Professor of Engineering Systems, Emeritus) has received the 2022 Academy of Management IM (International Management) Division Hyundai Motor Eminent Scholar Award. The IM Division has a focus on content pertaining to the theory, research, and practice of management with a cross-border or cross-cultural dimension. This award recognizes Lessard’s lifetime achievement in international management scholarship. 

Retsef Levi and Tom Magnanti have received the 2016 Harold W. Kuhn Award, an annual prize which recognizes an exceptional paper published in Naval Research Logistics during the previous three years. Their winning paper, co-authored with Jack Muckstadt (Cornell University assistant professor), Danny Segev (University of Haifa), and Eric Zarybnisky (MIT SM ’03, PhD ’11), is entitled “Maintenance Scheduling for Modular Systems: Modeling and Algorithms."

Retsef Levi and Y. Karen Zheng have won the 2020 MSOM Responsible Research in Operations Management award for the paper, “The Impact of Unifying Agriculture Wholesale Markets on Prices and Farmers' Profitability,” coauthored with Manoj Rajan and Somya Singhvi. MSOM, which stands for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, presents this award in order to encourage studies that may “make the world a better place,” through “evidence-based” practices. 

Retsef Levi’s paper, “Matching Supply and Demand: Delayed Two-Phase Distribution at Yedioth Group – Models, Algorithms, and Information Technology,” was awarded the 2013 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. The prize was established in 1998 to commemorate the life and work of Daniel H. Wagner. See the winning paper, which was co-authored by Assaf Avrahami and Yale T. Herer, here.

Danielle Li has won the 2019 American Economic Journal Best Paper Award for AEJ: Applied Economics.  Li’s winning paper, “Expertise versus Bias in Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH” (AEJ: Applied Economics, 9 (2), April 2017, pp. 60-92), was also featured in the 2017 American Economic Association Research Highlight, “How Can We Make Sure the Best Medical Science Gets Funded?”

Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, 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.  

Andrew Lo and Kara Blackburn were each awarded the 2019 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, established to honor educational innovation and excellence. 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.

Lori Breslow has been honored as co-author of one of the Top Ten AERA (American Educational Research Association) Journal Articles in 2014. The article, co-authored with Jennifer DeBoer (Purdue), Glenda Stump (ASU), and Andrew Ho (Harvard), is entitled “Changing ‘Course’: Reconceptualizing Variables for Massive Open Online Courses.”

Lotte Bailyn, Professor of Management, has been named the 2009 recipient of MIT's Gordon Y. Billard Award. This award is presented annually for "special service of outstanding merit performed for the Institute," with a fund established by Mr. Gordon Y Billard, '24.

Andrew W. Lo’s book "Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought" (Princeton University Press, 2017) has won the 2018 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. The annual awards recognize “the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in 58 categories” and have been judged since 1976 by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals. The award was presented during the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.