Faculty

Basima Tewfik (Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies) and Ray Reagans (Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management; Professor of Work and Organization Studies; and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) have each won a 2022 Teaching with Digital Technology Award from MIT for their innovative use of digital tools in their teaching. 

These student-nominated, student-judged awards recognize faculty and instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT. This recognition also gives the MIT community the opportunity to learn from their innovative practices. The awards are co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor. This year students submitted a total of 207 nominations, and 15 winners were selected.
 

David Thesmar has won the 2017 Brattle Group Distinguished Paper Prize. This annual award recognizes outstanding papers on corporate finance published in The Journal of Finance, the official publication of The American Finance Association. Thesmar’s winning paper, published in February 2017 and co-authored with Martin Schmalz (Michigan Ross) and David Sraer (Berkeley Haas), is entitled, “Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship” (The Journal of Finance, 72(1):99-132). The award was presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association.

Nikos Trichakis won third place for the 2018 INFORMS TIMES (Technology, Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section) Best Working Paper Award, for “Blockchain and the Value of Operational Transparency for Supply Chain Finance,” co-authored with Jiri Chod (Boston College), Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), Henry Aspegren (MIT MEng grad; Tsinghua University), and Mark Weber (MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab).

Nikolaos Trichakis has won the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Prize. Along with co-authors David Simchi-Levi (MIT) and Peter Yun Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University), Trichakis was honored for the paper, “Designing Response Supply Chain Against Bioattacks.” The Koopman Prize is given for the outstanding publication in military operations research of the previous year.

Nikos Trichakis won the INFORMS 2018 MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management) iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations, and Risk Management) SIG (Special Interest Group) Best Paper Award. His winning paper, co-authored with Dan A. Iancu (Stanford) and Gerry Tsoukalas (Wharton), is entitled, “Is Operating Flexibility Harmful Under Debt?” (Management Science, Vol. 63, No. 6 (June 2017): 1657-2048).

Dimitris Bertsimas (Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor of Management, Professor of Operations Research, and Associate Dean for Business Analytics) has received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Athens, the largest and oldest university in Greece. This honor is particularly significant as it is only the 33^rd honorary doctorate given by the Department of Mathematics in its nearly 200-year history.

The degree was conferred on Bertsimas at the University of Athens in a ceremony in December 2021.

Jim Utterback is the recipient of a 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences (IEMS) at Northwestern University, in recognition of his accomplishments and distinguished career contributions to the field of entrepreneurship and innovation.

Adrien Verdelhan has won the 2018 Amundi Pioneer Prize (formerly named the Amundi Smith Breeden Prize)—First Prize—for the best paper in any area other than corporate finance published in The Journal of Finance, which is the official publication of The American Finance Association and one of the most widely cited academic journals in finance as well as in economics.  Verdelhan’s winning paper, co-authored with Wenxin Du (Chicago Booth) and Alexander Tepper (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), is entitled, “Deviations from Covered Interest Rate Parity” (The Journal of Finance, 73(3):915-957, June 2018).

Vivek Farias has received the 2016  Best OM Paper in Management Science Award from the MSOM (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management) Society of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences). Vivek was honored for his 2013 paper (co-authored with Srikanth Jagabathula of NYU Stern and Devavrat Shah of MIT EECS) entitled, “A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data.”

Vivek Farias has won the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Revenue Management and Pricing section prize, which recognizes the “best contribution to the science of pricing and revenue management published in English.” Farias was honored for his 2013 Management Science paper (co-authored with Srikanth Jagabathula of NYU Stern and Devavrat Shah of MIT EECS), “A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Choice with Limited Data.”