Faculty

Nikos Trichakis won the 2018 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize. This award recognizes one or more outstanding paper(s) in optimization published by, or forthcoming in a refereed journal within the previous four years, authored by a young scholar (having obtained their last degree within the past eight years).  Trichakis’s winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford), is entitled, “Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization” (Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 1 (January 2014): 130-147).

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.

Juanjuan Zhang has received the 2021 John D. C. Little Award. Named after MIT Institute Professor Emeritus John D.C. Little, this award is given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science, Management Science, or another INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) journal. 

Zhang’s winning paper, coauthored with Xinyu Cao (NYU Stern, MIT Sloan PhD ‘18), is entitled “Preference Learning and Demand Forecast” (Marketing Science, 2021). 

The same paper was also a Finalist for the Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award for the best marketing paper published in an INFORMS-sponsored journal that was derived from a Ph.D. thesis (Zhang was Xinyu Cao’s thesis supervisor and paper coauthor).

In addition, Zhang’s paper entitled “Rational Herding in Microloan Markets” (Management Science, 2012), coauthored with Peng Liu (Cornell), was a finalist for the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Long Term Impact Award, given annually to a marketing paper published in Marketing Science, Management Science, or another INFORMS journal in recognition of its significant long-run impact on the field of Marketing.

Y. Karen Zheng and Retsef Levi 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. 

Haoxiang Zhu has won the 2017 Amundi Smith Breeden Prize (First Prize) for the best paper in any area other than corporate finance in The Journal of Finance, which is the official publication of The American Finance Association. Zhu’s winning paper, co-authored with Darrell Duffie (Stanford) and Piotr Dworczak (University of Chicago), is entitled, “Benchmarks in Search Markets” (The Journal of Finance, 72(5):1983-2044). The award was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association in Philadelphia.

Erin Kelly has won the 2021 Max Weber Book Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the American Sociological Association Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work.

Her winning book, “Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It” (Princeton University Press, 2020), co-authored with Phyllis Moen (University of Minnesota), was recognized among books published within the last three years (2018-2020) for its “outstanding contribution to scholarship on organizations, occupations, and/or work.”

Nick Pudar  and Rodrigo Verdi (Accounting) were named co-winners of the MIT Sloan School Teacher of the Year for the 2020-2021 academic year. Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations. Deputy Dean Michael Cusumano thanked the winners of this year's teaching awards for "exemplifying the dedication to pedagogical excellence that is so central to our mission at MIT Sloan."

Tom Kochan has won the Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. This annual award recognizes Kochan’s record of extensive and distinguished work mentoring PhD students (chairing dissertation committees for 24 students and serving on the dissertation committees of 20 others), which demonstrates not only his dedication to his students, but also his long-term impact on the field through them. 

The award citation notes that Kochan’s past doctoral students “highly value his enabling, inclusive and empowering mentoring style and his ability to provide tremendous emotional support to his students.” This award is sponsored by the Center for Executive Succession at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

The award was presented during the Academy of Management Annual Meeting. A video of Kochan’s full acceptance speech, as well as some highlighted quotes from his remarks can be viewed in this article of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan.

A video of Kochan’s full acceptance speech, as well as some highlighted quotes from his remarks can be viewed in this article of the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan.

 

Professor Thomas Kochan is one of several faculty members at MIT Sloan who have won the 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from The Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program. The other MIT Sloan winners are Barbara Dyer, Leigh Hafrey, and Christine Kelly. This award recognizes 10 exceptional courses, and honors faculty who are redefining business education, providing learning experiences that equip managers of tomorrow with the context, skills, and decision-making capabilities needed to lead in an increasingly complex business environment and world. The award celebrates innovative teaching that challenges conventional thinking and tests new approaches to divisive issues, rethinking the path forward for business and society and preparing students to make business decisions that create both financial and social value.

The winning course, 15.S02 “Bridging the American Divides: Work Community and Culture —USA Lab,” is MIT Sloan’s U.S.-focused Action Learning Lab, developed by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan in partnership with the MIT Mens et Manus America Initiative and MIT Sloan Action Learning.

Barbara Dyer, senior lecturer, is one of several faculty members at MIT Sloan who have won the 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award from The Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program. The other MIT Sloan winners are Leigh Hafrey, Christine Kelly, and Thomas Kochan. This award recognizes 10 exceptional courses, and honors faculty who are redefining business education, providing learning experiences that equip managers of tomorrow with the context, skills, and decision-making capabilities needed to lead in an increasingly complex business environment and world. The award celebrates innovative teaching that challenges conventional thinking and tests new approaches to divisive issues, rethinking the path forward for business and society and preparing students to make business decisions that create both financial and social value.

The winning course, 15.S02 “Bridging the American Divides: Work Community and Culture —USA Lab,” is MIT Sloan’s U.S.-focused Action Learning Lab, developed by the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative at MIT Sloan in partnership with the MIT Mens et Manus America Initiative and MIT Sloan Action Learning.