Faculty

Valerie Karplus has won the 2019 U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Education Award, recognizing her outstanding teaching and research-advising contributions in the clean energy domain. This annual award is one of eight in different disciplines of clean energy leadership (research, entrepreneurship, law and finance, business, government, international, advocacy, and education) that honor mid-career women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and achievement in advancing and implementing clean and innovative energy solutions.  The awards are administered by the Texas A&M Energy Institute, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), and the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy, who collaborate with the U.S. Department of Energy to implement the U.S. C3E Initiative, which aims to close the gender gap and increase the participation, leadership, and success of women in clean energy fields. 

John Van Reenen has won the 25^th Annual Research Award from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation, which supports innovative research with the potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. The NIHCM Research Award recognizes outstanding publications which further innovation in health care financing, delivery, and organization or the implementation of health care policy.

Van Reenen’s winning paper, co-authored with Zack Cooper (Yale University), Stuart V. Craig (University of Pennsylvania), and Martin Gaynor (Carnegie Mellon University), is entitled, “The Price Ain’t Right? Hospital Prices and Health Spending on the Privately Insured” (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134 (1), February 2019, 51-107). The independent panel of experts who selected the winners “were impressed with the national reach of this work and its impact in transforming perceptions and raising public policy questions regarding antitrust enforcement.” 

The award was announced April 11, 2019.

In 2016, Van Reenen was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for “For services to Economics and Public Policy Making”.

In 2009, Van Reenen won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, awarded to best economist under the age of 45 “who has made a contribution that is significant to economics in Europe”. The prize is the most prestigious award in European economics: it is the European equivalent to the US Bates Clark Medal.

In 2011, Van Reenen was presented with the Arrow Prize (IHEA) for world’s best paper in health economics in 2010.

John Van Reenen has won the 2017 HBR McKinsey Award, which recognizes “practical and groundbreaking management thinking” in selecting the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. Van Reenen’s winning paper, co-authored with Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School) and Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), is entitled, “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” (Harvard Business Review, September-October 2017, 120-127).

The award was announced recently and appears in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review.

In 2014, Van Reenen was awarded the European Investment Bank Prize for Excellence in Economic and Social Research. 

Kate’s book, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery, University of Chicago Press, 2011, is the winner of the Max Weber Award from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section and the winner of the Sociology of Law Biannual Distinguished Book Award from the Law section of the American Sociological Association.

Sinan Aral and Simon Johnson were each awarded the 2017 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.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently appointed four MIT Sloan faculty members as Faculty Research Fellows, including Claudia Steinwender, who has been appointed a fellow in both the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and the International Trade and Investment programs. Christian Catalini, Namrata Kala, and Christopher Palmer were also appointed as fellows. The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization, whose affiliates have included 27 Nobel Prize winners and 13 past chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. While the NBER remains impartial and does not make public policy recommendations, NBER research findings are disseminated among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals, bringing critical information to many important public policy debates.