Faculty

Deborah Ancona won the 2022 Samuel M. Seegal Faculty Prize. 
The Seegal Prize is shared with the MIT School of Engineering and is awarded every other year to a professor “who inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence.” The award was established by Paula Seegal-Thompson for her father, a member of the class of 1922. The Seegal faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

Andrew Sutherland has received the FARS Best Dissertation Award 2016 from the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section (FARS) of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Andrew’s winning dissertation is entitled “The Economic Consequences of Borrower Information Sharing: Relationship Dynamics and Investment.”

Antoinette Schoar has received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. This award was established by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2005 to inspire promising young scholars to contribute new insight to entrepreneurship. The honor, which includes a cash prize, is awarded every two years to one scholar younger than 40 "whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship."

Wanda Orlikowski has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM), in recognition of “Distinguished and Scholarly Contributions to the Profession of Management.” Orlikowski was officially inducted at the annual AOM Fellows dinner during the 79^th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston in August 2019.

Ray Reagans (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management; Professor of Work and Organization Studies; and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is a 2022 inductee as an Academy of Management (AOM) Fellow. Induction to the AOM Fellows Group recognizes AOM members who have made significant contributions to the science and practice of management.

Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles have won the 2020 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) eBusiness Section Best Paper Award. Their winning working paper, “Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Field Experiments,” was co-authored with Jeremy Yang (their MIT Sloan PhD student) and Paramveer Dhillon (University of Michigan), who is a former MIT Sloan postdoc and research associate.

Sinan Aral and Dean Eckles have won the 2020 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) eBusiness Section Best Paper Award. Their winning working paper, “Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from Large-Scale Field Experiments,” was co-authored with Jeremy Yang (their MIT Sloan PhD student) and Paramveer Dhillon (University of Michigan), who is a former MIT Sloan postdoc and research associate.

Sinan Aral has been honored with the 2017 Herbert Simon Award of Rajk László College for Advanced Studies in Budapest, Hungary, where members of the college study economics, business, and social sciences. The economics students there established the John von Neumann Award in 1995, and the business students established the Herbert Simon Award (named after Nobel laureate Herbert Simon) in 2005. The College Assembly who voted for Aral cited the way he combines “outstanding research with real-life experience,” noting that his “groundbreaking thoughts in the fields of social commerce, information diffusion in social networks and big data applications would inspire us and improve our thinking on how technology shapes the world’s business environment.” Aral will formally receive the award in 2018 when he visits Rajk László College to give a public presentation and a college seminar.

Sinan Aral has won the 2018 Fellows Choice Award (Academic division), an Excellence in New Communications Award from the Society for New Communications Research of The Conference Board (SNCR). These awards honor the work of innovative organizations and individuals “who are advancing the use of digital and social media, mobile media, collaborative technologies, virtual reality, and other emerging digital technologies to improve business, media, health, law, culture, and society.” Fellows Choice Award winners were chosen by SNCR Fellows this year for their “exemplary effort to address fake news.” Aral’s winning paper, co-authored with Soroush Vosoughi and Deb Roy (both at the MIT Media Lab in the Laboratory for Social Machines), is entitled “The Spread of True and False News Online.” NCR, a research and education institution dedicated to the advanced study of how new and emerging communications tools and technologies are affecting business, media, health, law, culture, and society, is part of The Conference Board, a global, independent business membership and research association working to provide the world’s leading organizations with the practical knowledge needed to improve performance and better serve society.

Arnoldo Hax has received the Ramon Salas Edwards Award from the Chilean Institute of Engineers in recognition of his book, The Delta Model. This award is given once every three years for the most outstanding scientific or technological research contribution related to the engineering field.