Faculty

Adrien Verdelhan has received the 2017 AQR Insight Award First Prize, sponsored by AQR Capital Management. This award recognizes exceptional unpublished academic papers that provide the most significant original approaches to investment issues, offering practical insights for taxable investor or tax-exempt institutional portfolios. The winners are invited to present their new research at AQR. Verdelhan’s winning paper, co-authored with Wenxin Du (Federal Reserve Board) and Alexander Tepper (Columbia University), is entitled "Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity.”

Michelle Hanlon was designated as a 2020 Presidential Scholar by the president of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Hanlon delivered a commissioned Presidential Research Lecture as a plenary speaker at the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting of the AAA in August. The Accounting Review will publish her talk, which was entitled "The Possible Weakening of Financial Accounting from Tax Reforms,” as part of the Presidential Research Lecture series, by request of the AAA Board of Directors.

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.”

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 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.

Dimitris Bertsimas and a team he led with MIT students and researchers from Janssen Research & Development, who developed the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, has received the 2021 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (First Place) from INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). The award, sponsored by the Analytics Society of INFORMS, Kinaxis, and Adelphi University, recognizes the creative and unique application of a combination of analytical techniques in a new area.

In their winning application, entitled “Data-driven COVID-19 Vaccine Development for Janssen,” Bertsimas’s team guided Johnson & Johnson on where to perform the clinical trials for its COVID-19 vaccine. The team also included Michael Lingzhi Li (MIT PhD student advised by Bertsimas) and Omar Skali Lami (MIT PhD student advised by both Bertsimas and Georgia Perakis); Hamza Tazi Bouardi (BCG GAMMA; MIT MBAn ’20, formerly advised by Bertsimas); Ali Haddad-Sisakht (Dynamic Ideas, LLC); and Najat Khan, Jennings Xu, Jose Zamalloa, Amir Hashemi, Ankit Lodha, Yuqi Shang, Kris Standish, Shi-hua Yu, Levon Demirdjian, Xiaoying Wu, and Sid Jain (all from Janssen Pharmaceuticals).

The award was announced at the Virtual 2021 INFORMS Business Analytics Conference. More details can be found in this MIT News article.

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.”