Faculty

John Sterman has won the 2016 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 received the Industrial Organization Society Distinguished Fellow Award, which is given annually in recognition of excellence in research, education, and leadership in the field of Industrial Organization.

Rodrigo Verdi has received the 2016 American Accounting Association (AAA) Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award, which recognizes “accounting research of exceptional merit that has significantly impacted the discipline over a period of at least five years.” Verdi was recognized for his 2008 paper (co-authored by Holger Daske, University of Mannheim, Luzi Hail, Wharton, and Christian Leuz, Chicago Booth) entitled,“Mandatory IFRS Reporting Around the World: Early Evidence on the Economic Consequences..”

Mark Kritzman has won a 2016 Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Outstanding Article Award. The annual award recognizes research excellence in the theory and practice of portfolio management.  Honorees are chosen by subscriber vote on articles appearing in The Journal of Portfolio Management the prior year. The winning paper, co-authored with Will Kinlaw and David Turkington (both of State Street), is entitled “The Divergence of High- and Low-Frequency Estimation: Implications for Performance  Measurement” (The Journal of Portfolio Management, Vol. 41, No. 3).

Ernst Berndt has been recognized with an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel (Switzerland), for his “outstanding academic achievements in the fields of econometrics and health economics.” The university noted Berndt’s “research on the sources of innovation and the measurement of productivity,” as well as the methods he “implemented for adjusting prices of commodities whose characteristics significantly change over time.”

Erin Kelly has won the 2015 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work & Family developed this award to raise the awareness of high-quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant, and practitioner communities. This 15th Anniversary year, five finalists were selected by a committee of over 55 leading scholars.

Kristin Forbes has received a Bicentennial Medal from Williams College. The award is given to a small number of alumni each year for distinguished achievement in their fields.

Gordon Kaufman has been appointed the 2015 International Association of Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG) Distinguished Lecturer, responsible for giving a series of lectures. Kaufman gave the IAMG Distinguished Lecture at the Association’s Annual Conference in New Delhi last fall and has lectured at Stanford’s Petroleum Engineering Department and the U.S. Geological Survey’s University of Arizona branch.

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.

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.