Faculty

Stew Myers's appointment was announced earlier this month at the ECGI's General Assembly in Barcelona. The ECGI, which was founded in 2002, is an international scientific non-profit association. It provides a forum for debate and dialogue between academics, legislators and practitioners, focusing on major corporate governance issues and thereby promoting best practice.

Stew Myers is a co-winner of the 2009 III Edition of the Jaime Fernandez de Araoz Corporate Finance Award, which was created to encourage the development of knowledge within the field of corporate finance by rewarding individuals or teams that contribute to this field through their research work or applied experience. The award was for the paper "The Internal Governance of Firms" (joint with Viral V. Acharya and Raghuram Rajan), for opening new and pathbreaking insights into corporate governance structures which had not been explored up to date in the classical agency theory perspective, as well as opening very promising research possibilities for scholarly work in this area.

Stewart Myers has won the 2015 Onassis Prize for Finance, for his “foundational contributions to finance since the beginning of its transformation to a rigorous science-based discipline, nearly a half century ago.” The prestigious honor recognizes Myers for “his influential research on capital structure and capital budgeting valuation.”

Andrew Sutherland (Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Accounting) and Alexandre Jacquillat (Class of 1942 Career Development Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor of Operations Research/Statistics) 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.

Andrew Sutherland has won the Best Archival Paper Award from the American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section 2020 Midyear Meeting, for the best conference paper using archival research methods. Sutherland’s winning paper, co-authored with Jonathan Cook (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board), Zachary Kowaleski (University of Notre Dame), Michael Minnis (University of Chicago−Booth), and Karla M. Zehms (University of Wisconsin−Madison), is entitled, “Auditors are Known by the Companies They Keep.” 

Andrew Sutherland (Ford International Career Development Associate Professor of Accounting) has received the 25th annual Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting and Ethics from the Steed School of Accounting at the University of Oklahoma’s Price College of Business. This award recognizes outstanding unpublished work that is interdisciplinary in “contributing to the understanding of ethical concepts, and then applying this understanding to accounting issues in an effective way.”

Sutherland’s winning paper, entitled “Supervisor Influence on Employee Misconduct,” was co-authored with Zachary T. Kowaleski (University of Texas at Austin) and Felix Vetter (University of Mannheim).

Basima Tewfik won Best Conference Paper from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) in 2019. Tewfik won for her paper,  "The Help-Decliner’s Dilemma: How to Decline Requests for Help at Work without Hurting One’s Image." The paper's co-authors are Timothy Kundro and Philip Tetlock. The paper was presented at IACM 2019 in Dublin, Ireland.

Basima Tewfik (Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies) and Ray Reagans (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management; Professor of Work and Organization Studies; and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) have each won a 2022 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their innovative use of digital tools in their teaching. 

These student-nominated, student-judged awards recognize faculty and instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. 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 207 nominations, and 15 winners were selected.
 

David Thesmar has won the 2017 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize. This annual award recognizes outstanding papers on corporate finance published in The Journal of Finance, the official publication of The American Finance Association. Thesmar’s winning paper, published in February 2017 and co-authored with Martin Schmalz (Michigan Ross) and David Sraer (Berkeley Haas), is entitled, “Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship” (The Journal of Finance, 72(1):99-132). The award was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association.

Sinan Aral, Jackson Lu, Hal Gregersen, Andy McAfee, and Geoff Parker have received Thinkers50 honors. Since 2001 Thinkers50 has recognized leading business and management ideas every two years with their Top 50 global rankings of the most influential business thinkers, emerging Radar ones to watch, and Distinguished Achievement Awards in specific management categories – “the Oscars of Management Thinking” (Financial Times). 

Sinan Aral, David Austin Professor of Management and Professor of Information Technology and Marketing as well as Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE), has won the 2021 Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, which "celebrates the thinker who has done the most to convert the digital language of the 0 and 1 into useful human insights,” whose “research and insights shed the newest and most original light on the new digital reality.”

The top 50 honorees on the Thinkers50 2021 Ranking of Management Thinkers include:

Sinan Aral, who “forensically and persuasively gets to the reality inside social media and tech”;

Hal Gregersen, Senior Lecturer of Work and Organization Studies (WOS) and former Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, a “catalytic questioner and global innovator, exploring how asking the right questions builds leadership and innovation, and drives purposeful change”;

Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist and Co-Director of the MIT IDE, who with Erik Brynjolfsson (former IDE Director) “launched into the thought leadership stratosphere in 2014 with The Second Machine Age”—“their work continues to provide a road-map for success in a digital economy”;  and

Geoff Parker, Visiting Scholar at the IDE, who with Marshall Van Alstyne (former Visiting Scholar at the IDE) “developed the concept of two-sided markets, which is used extensively in platform business models, and delivered the first comprehensive analysis of platform technology.”

In addition, each January Thinkers50 announces 30 emerging thinkers “with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice” to watch in the year ahead, and the Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2021 included Jackson Lu, Mitsui Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies.  The citation notes his being the first “to systematically research the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ phenomenon” experienced by Asians in the United States, with “The Bamboo Ceiling: Why East Asians but Not South Asians Are Underrepresented in Leadership Positions in the United States” (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), co-authored with Richard Nesbitt (Univ. of Michigan) and Michael W. Morris (Columbia).

Jackson Lu was also subsequently shortlisted for the Thinkers50 2021 RADAR Thinker Award—which recognizes the emerging scholar “most likely to shape the future of business and business thinking,” whose “work has the potential to challenge the way we think about management”—“for his impactful research on cross-cultural management and psychology, especially his research on the ‘Bamboo Ceiling’ faced by Asians.”