Faculty

John Van Reenen has won the 2017 HBR McKinsey Award, which recognizes “practical and groundbreaking management thinking” in selecting the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. Van Reenen’s winning paper, co-authored with Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School) and Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), is entitled, “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” (Harvard Business Review, September-October 2017, 120-127).

The award was announced recently and appears in the May-June issue of Harvard Business Review.

In 2014, Van Reenen was awarded the European Investment Bank Prize for Excellence in Economic and Social Research. 

Kate’s book, Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery, University of Chicago Press, 2011, is the winner of the Max Weber Award from the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section and the winner of the Sociology of Law Biannual Distinguished Book Award from the Law section of the American Sociological Association.

Sinan Aral and Simon Johnson were each awarded the 2017 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 National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently appointed four MIT Sloan faculty members as Faculty Research Fellows, including Claudia Steinwender, who has been appointed a fellow in both the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and the International Trade and Investment programs. Christian Catalini, Namrata Kala, and Christopher Palmer were also appointed as fellows. The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization, whose affiliates have included 27 Nobel Prize winners and 13 past chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. While the NBER remains impartial and does not make public policy recommendations, NBER research findings are disseminated among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals, bringing critical information to many important public policy debates.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has recently appointed four MIT Sloan faculty members as Faculty Research Fellows, including Christian Catalini, who has been appointed a fellow in the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program. Namrata Kala, Christopher Palmer, and Claudia Steinwender were also appointed as fellows. The NBER is the nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization, whose affiliates have included 27 Nobel Prize winners and 13 past chairs of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. While the NBER remains impartial and does not make public policy recommendations, NBER research findings are disseminated among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals, bringing critical information to many important public policy debates.

Speakers for this annual lecture, which was named in honor of a former dean, are chosen based on excellence and relevance of their work to a wide range of fields in the school. Through a competitive process their faculty identifies a leading scholar whose work is both highly impactful but also attractive to the broad set of interests among management faculty members. JoAnne Yates will give her lecture at McGill on April 18 in Montreal.

Don Lessard is one of three MIT faculty members awarded "Class of 1960 Fellows" support. Other faculty recipients are Vladimir Bulovic from Electrical Engineering and Washington Taylor from Physics. Taken together, the Class of 1960 funds will be focused on developing the core of the evolving energy curriculum at MIT.

Alan White was recognized as the architect of Sloan's China Management Education Project, which has contributed greatly to the development of Fudan's IMBA program (and which has been an anchor of Sloan's international educational programs).

Andrew Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, is one of the 198 new members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Members of the Academy include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.