Faculty

Catherine Tucker has won the Erin Anderson Award given by the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF). The annual award recognizes an emerging female marketing scholar and mentor. “Professor Tucker … sets a leading example for women early in their career, demonstrating how they can balance their academic lives with their personal ones and find success in both areas,” stated the award committee chair.

Juanjuan Zhang  and Georgia Perakis have each received the 2014 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.

Mark Kritzman has won a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award. The annual award recognizes research excellence in the theory and practice of portfolio management. The paper, co-authored with William Kinlaw and David Turkington (both of State Street), is entitled “The Divergence of High- and Low-Frequency Estimation: Causes and Consequences.”

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.

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.

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer, Mark Kritzman has won the 2013 Peter L. Bernstein Award for Best Paper in an Institutional Investor Journal. The award honors outstanding, compelling research published in any of Institutional Investor's 10 journals over the past year. The winning paper, "Liquidity and Portfolio Choice: A Unified Approach" (The Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2013), is co-authored with Will Kinlaw and David Turkington (both of State Street). The article illustrates how managers can employ simulation techniques to quantify how much their unique portfolios benefit from liquidity or suffer from illiquidity. It also shows how they can use this information to construct portfolios that take liquidity considerations into account.

John Hauser won the Buck Weaver Award from the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science in 2013. The Buck Weaver Award is an annual award that "honors distinguished scholars and practitioners who have excelled in the achievement of rigor and relevance in marketing science."

MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Mark Kritzman has won two Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Awards, which recognize research excellence in the theory and practice of portfolio management. These annual awards for articles appearing in The Journal of Portfolio Management are based on subscriber voting. The first winning paper, "Liquidity and Portfolio Choice: A Unified Approach" (The Journal of Portfolio Management, Winter 2013), is co-authored with Will Kinlaw and David Turkington (both of State Street). The article illustrates innovative techniques for investors to determine the optimal allocation to illiquid assets. Mark's second awarded paper, "Risk Disparity" (The Journal of Portfolio Management, Fall 2013), addresses how to balance growth of portfolio wealth over time with avoidance of large draw-downs.

Swati Gupta won the Google India Women in Engineering Award in 2011. The Google India Women in Engineering Award began in 2008 as a way to recognize deserving women students in the field of Computer Science and Engineering.

John Hauser won the Churchill Award from the American Marketing Association, Market Research Special Interest Group, in 2011 for “Lifetime achievement in the academic study of marketing research.”