Faculty

Kara Blackburn (Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication) was named winner of the Sloan School Teacher of the Year for the 2022-2023 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.”

Kara Blackburn and Andrew Lo were each awarded the 2019 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.

Kara Blackburn has won a 2020 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for her work teaching on campus and/or remotely. Blackburn won the award along with fellow Sloan faculty members Vivek Farias, Michelle Hanlon, Alexandre Jacquillat, Miro Kazakoff, Ben Shields, and Rodrigo Verdi. 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 were co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year, students submitted a total of 487 nominations for 232 faculty and instructors, and 30 winners were selected by Dean of Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal and Vice Chancellor Ian Waitz, with help from MIT Open Learning staff. 

Bob Gibbons has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy announced its 2009 Class of Fellows on April 20th. The Academy, established in 1780, is one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and is a center for independent policy research. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Robert McKersie and his co-author Richard Walton (Emeritus, HBS) were honored by the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) at a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of their 1965 classic book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. LERA presented McKersie and Walton with a citation that described the book as “A Landmark Contribution to Industrial Relations and Social Science Theory, Teaching, and Practice.”

Catherine Tucker has won the Erin Anderson Award given by the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF). The annual award recognizes an emerging female marketing scholar and mentor. “Professor Tucker … sets a leading example for women early in their career, demonstrating how they can balance their academic lives with their personal ones and find success in both areas,” stated the award committee chair.

Hui Chen has won the 2019 North America Arthur Warga Award for Best Paper in Fixed Income—from the Society of Financial Studies— for his paper 
"Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets."  The paper's co-authors are Zhuo Chen, Zhiguo He, Jinyu Liu, and Rengming Xie. Two Arthur Warga Awards are presented every year year.

Jared Curhan has won a 2019 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for his work in the 15.672 (Negotiation Analysis) class. This student-nominated award recognizes faculty and instructors who have used digital technology to improve teaching and learning for MIT students. Student nominations particularly praised Curhan’s use of an online platform and interactive application to facilitate and enhance experiential learning in the classroom. The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. 
Curhan is the first winner from Sloan for this relatively new award.  

Michael Cusumano has won the 2019 Abbie Griffin High Impact Award, which recognizes the most influential article published in the Journal of Product Innovation Management in the last five years. Cusumano’s winning paper, co-authored with Annabelle Gawar (University of Surrey, UK;  2000 MIT Sloan PhD in Management of Technology and Innovation), is entitled, “Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation” (Journal of Product Innovation Management (2014) 31(3):417-433). The selection committee noted that his paper addresses “a very important topic in today’s academic research as well as managerial practice,” has “a large number of citations from the very best academic journals,” and includes “a number of concrete industry examples, and importantly, provides a set of managerial practices for effective platform leadership,” as well as outlining “several relevant platform-related research questions that are being tackled by researchers.”

David Rand has won the 2020 Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS) Early Career Impact Award of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM). This award recognizes early-career scientists of FABBS member societies who have made major research contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior, especially those whose outstanding research contributions are accompanied by outreach activities that increase public awareness of science.  Second, Rand is a winner of the inaugural AMA-EBSCO Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing from the American Marketing Association, with financial support from EBSCO and in partnership with the Sheth Foundation and Responsible Research in Business & Management network. The award honors outstanding research that produces both credible and useful knowledge that can be applied to benefit society. 
Rand’s nominated paper for the award, co-authored with Gordon T. Kraft-Todd (Yale), Bryan Bollinger (Duke Fuqua School of Business), Kenneth Gillingham (Yale School of Management), and Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics), is entitled “Credibility-enhancing displays promote the provision of non-normative public goods” (Nature 563, 245-248 (2018). The paper was deemed to exemplify the Seven Principles of Responsible Research, in support of “better marketing for a better world.”