Faculty

Wanda Orlikowski and JoAnne Yates won the 2014 Best Information Systems Publications Award given by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The award recognizes the breadth of high-quality work that is being published in the information systems discipline across a range of journals. The winning paper (co-authored with their former doctoral student, Melissa Mazmanian, now at UC Irvine) is entitled “The Autonomy Paradox: The Implications of Mobile Email Devices for Knowledge Professionals.”

Wanda Orlikowski is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award given by the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division of the Academy of Management.

Joe Weber is the winner of the 2018 Samuel E. Seegal Faculty Prize , in recognition of his having inspired students in pursuing and achieving excellence. The prize is awarded to a faculty member for “pursuing excellence” at either MIT Sloan or the MIT School of Engineering every other year.

Mike Whinston has won the 2019 Best Paper Award from the Association of Competition Economics (ACE). This award recognizes “the best paper published on antitrust and consumer protection in the previous year in an economic journal.” Whinston's winning paper, co-authored with Gregory S. Crawford (University of Zurich), Robin S. Lee (Harvard), and Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford), is entitled “The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in Multichannel Television Markets” (Econometrica, 86(3), 891-954, May 2018).

Sean Willems, Adrien Verdelhan, Nikolaos Trichakis, Andrew Lo, Miro Kazakoff, Joseph Doyle, Kristin Forbes, and Arathi Mehrotra 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.  

Nathan Wilmers has won the Academy of Management, Organizational and Management Theory Division 2020 Best Paper Award. Wilmers was honored for his paper, “Wage Stagnation and Buyer Power: How Buyer-Supplier Relations Affect U.S. Workers’ Wages, 1978-2014.” This award recognizes “the empirical or conceptual paper submitted to the Academy of Management annual meeting that offers a significant contribution to the field of organization and management theory.”

Nathan Wilmers has won the 2021 ASQ Dissertation Award, which recognizes a paper published in Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) in the previous year that was based on a dissertation and best exemplifies the criteria for publication in ASQ, combining significant theoretical advances with extensive data collection and rigorous analysis. Wilmers’ sole-authored winning paper, published in ASQ in 2020, is entitled “Job Turf or Variety:  Task Structure as a Source of Organizational Inequality.”

The award, usually announced in person during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, (due to the pandemic) was announced recently in an ASQ letter from the Editor, which states that Wilmers’ “novel paper reveals the importance of the job itself—and the task structure within the job—to explain pay inequalities.” The award committee noted that Wilmers identifies “a really intriguing research question, develops novel theory to explain it, and writes with the requisite clarity for those not doing research on labor markets to read, understand, and appreciate.”

The 2013 WFE Award for Excellence will be awarded to Professor Robert C. Merton, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Professor Myron Scholes, Stanford Graduate School of Business and the late Fischer Black, former director of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs, in recognition of their development of the groundbreaking Black-Scholes Model in 1973. The WFE Award for Excellence is presented annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the advancement of regulated exchange markets. The award acknowledges innovation and advancement leading to greater understanding and better usage of the world's capital markets.

Professor Yasheng Huang has recently been selected in the first class of Research Associates and Fellows of the National Asia Research Program (NARP), a joint project of the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Huang and his SHASS colleague Professor M. Taylor Fravel were selected for their excellent research on policy issues of importance to United States interests in Asia.

Yasheng Huang's book Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State was cited by The Economist as one of the best books of 2008 and a pick of the pile in economics and business.