Faculty

Erin Scott and Scott Stern have each won the 2021 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, for their Entrepreneurial Strategy course developed with co-winner Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) and first launched at MIT Sloan and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
This annual award, sponsored by Yeshiva University, honors development and implementation of an innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy. Evaluation of entrepreneurship courses is based on the innovativeness of the content and pedagogical process, demonstrated and potential impact and transferability, and the course’s relevance (to both students and entrepreneurial practice). The award committee recognized Entrepreneurial Strategy as “one of the very finest innovations in the area of entrepreneurship this year.”

Kerry Siani (Assistant Professor of Finance) has won an MIT Sloan School Outstanding Teacher Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. Mohammed Fazel Zarandi (Senior Lecturer in Operations Research/Statistics; Research Scientist) also won an Outstanding Teacher Award.  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.”

Duncan Simester and Catherine Tucker have won the 2020 Weitz-Winer-O’Dell Award from the American Marketing Association. This award recognizes a Journal of Marketing Research article published five years earlier that has made the most significant, long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice. Their winning paper, “Harbingers of Failure” (Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 52, No. 5, October 2015), was co-authored with Song Lin (HKUST Business School), who was an MIT Sloan PhD student when the paper was written (PhD 2015), and Eric Anderson (Kellogg School of Management), who also obtained his PhD at MIT Sloan (in 1995).

Sinan Aral has been appointed to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alan Turing Institute in London — the British national institute for data science, headquartered at the British Library. Created in 2015 by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and five founding universities (Cambridge, Oxford,  Edinburgh, University College London, and Warwick), the Institute’s mission is “to make great leaps in data science research in order to change the world for the better.” The seven-member Scientific Advisory Board, an independent group which will provide strategic advice to the institute’s Board of Trustees and leadership team on its research program, includes experts from organizations around the world in academia, industry, and government, with a diverse range of skills and specializations spanning privacy, machine learning, engineering, microeconomics, and entrepreneurship.

Eric So and Vivek Farias (Operations Management) were each awarded the 2020 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 Jamieson faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

Anna Stansbury and Rodrigo Verdi (Accounting) each received an Outstanding Teacher Award at the MIT Sloan Excellence in Teaching Awards. Each year, students nominate instructors for these teaching awards and the final recipients are chosen based on the quantity and quality of their nominations.
 

Erin Scott and Scott Stern have each won the 2021 Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management, for their Entrepreneurial Strategy course developed with co-winner Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) and first launched at MIT Sloan and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
This annual award, sponsored by Yeshiva University, honors development and implementation of an innovation in entrepreneurship pedagogy. Evaluation of entrepreneurship courses is based on the innovativeness of the content and pedagogical process, demonstrated and potential impact and transferability, and the course’s relevance (to both students and entrepreneurial practice). The award committee recognized Entrepreneurial Strategy as “one of the very finest innovations in the area of entrepreneurship this year.”

Steven Eppinger has received the 2015 Distinguished Speaker Award from the Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section (TIMES) of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). This award recognizes Eppinger as “an outstanding academic leader in the field of technology management.”

Steven Eppinger has been honored with Runner Up for thePOMS (Production and Operations Management Society) Wickham Skinner Award fo rBest Paper published in Production and Operations Management during 2013. The winning paper, "Structuring Work Distribution for Global Product Development Organizations," is co-authored with MIT Sloan PhD graduate Anshuman Tripathy.

Steven Eppinger is the recipient of the PICMET Medal of Excellence Award, given by the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). This award “recognizes extraordinary achievements of individuals in any discipline for their outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology management.”