Faculty

John Hauser has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher from the ISI Web of Science since 2006. According to the ISI, Highly Cited Researchers encompass a diverse range of research fields in the sciences and social sciences.

John R. Hauser was elected as a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) in 2006. INFORMS Fellows are chosen for 
"their lifetime achievement in operations research and the management sciences."

John Hauser and John D.C. Little were elected as inaugural Fellows of ISMS (the INFORMS Society of Marketing Science) at the 30th Annual Marketing Science Conference in Vancouver, BC. The 10 Fellows Awards were given in recognition of significant, long-term contributions in research, education, and service to the Society of Marketing Science's efforts to improve the understanding and practice of marketing.

John Hauser won the Parlin Award from the American Marketing Association in 2001. The AMA describes this award as “the oldest and most distinguished award in the marketing research field.” The award was established as a tribute to Charles Coolidge Parlin, known as the founder of marketing research, according to the AMA.

John Hauser won the Paul D. Converse Award in 1996 for “outstanding contributions to the development of the science of marketing.” The American Marketing Association established the Converse Award in 1946.

John Hauser won the MIT Sloan School Excellence in Teaching Award in 1994. Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards, and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations.

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 exemplify the 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.

Otto Scharmer has received the Leonardo Award 2016 in Thought Leadership, a Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award addressing the “future of learning.” The award recognizes the value and contribution of Scharmer’s management method “Theory U.”

Anna Stansbury, Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies, has won the 2021 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Award (First Prize). With this annual award, the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research recognizes the best PhD dissertations on employment-related policies and issues, from any academic discipline, but requiring a substantial policy thrust to inform better policymaking.

Stansbury’s winning dissertation is entitled “Essays on Power in Labor Markets.” For more detail beyond her dissertation summary, these full papers are very similar to the three essays in her dissertation:

1) “Employer Concentration and Outside Options”

2) “The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis”

3) “Do US Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the FLSA and NLRA?”

and “Under the Wage Floor:  Exploring Firms’ Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage”

The recent award announcement regarding the winners notes the “path-breaking contributions to our understanding of some of the most salient employment issues of our time, including the bargaining power of workers…” that “…undoubtedly will influence not only future academic research but also our thinking about a range of state and federal social policies” (Susan N. Houseman, Vice President and Director of Research at the Upjohn Institute).

Eric von Hippel is the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This career-achievement award is granted "to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future." The award honors von Hippel’s groundbreaking research on user innovations and his work fostering international exchange and scientific discussions around user innovation and open source innovation, including initiating the Open and UserInnovation Conference, which is now an internationally acclaimed forum. 

Von Hippel was also awarded an honorary doctorate of economics and social science by the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, a major German technical university, "for his path-breaking contributions in the research area of user innovation and for his tireless efforts to support young researchers in their academic career paths." This is his third honorary doctorate.