Faculty

Vivek Farias and Tavneet Suri have each received approval from the MIT Research Support Committee for $50,000 of funding from the Solomon Buchsbaum Research Fund. This fund's purpose is "to launch new research initiatives that cut across disciplinary lines" in "support of innovative ideas advanced primarily by young faculty."

Ezra Zuckerman Sivan was named a winner of the 2019 Cooley-Mead Prize for best article, Social Psychology section of the American Sociological Association, for his paper “The Authentic Appeal of the Lying Demagogue: Proclaiming the Deeper Truth about Political Illegitimacy." The paper's co-authors are Oliver Hahl and Minjae Kim.

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 This award recognizes exceptional unpublished academic papers that provide the most significant original approaches to investment issues, offering practical insights for taxable investor or tax-exempt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.

S.P. Kothari was designated as a 2017 Presidential Scholar by the president of the American Accounting Association (AAA). Kothari delivered a commissioned Presidential Research Lecture as a plenary speaker at the AAA’s 2017 annual meeting in San Diego. The Board of Directors of the AAA has requested that The Accounting Review publish his talk, which was entitled "The Governance Role of Accounting Information: Challenges Facing Users, Producers, and Standard Setters,” as part of the Presidential Research Lecture series.

Deborah Ancona, along with Bob Pindyck, was awarded the 2018 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.

Deborah Ancona won the 2022 Samuel M. Seegal Faculty Prize. 
The Seegal Prize is shared with the MIT School of Engineering and is awarded every other year to a professor “who inspires students in pursuing and achieving excellence.” The award was established by Paula Seegal-Thompson for her father, a member of the class of 1922. The Seegal faculty prize is selected by a review committee at MIT.

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.”

Antoinette Schoar has received the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship. This award was established by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2005 to inspire promising young scholars to contribute new insight to entrepreneurship. The honor, which includes a cash prize, is awarded every two years to one scholar younger than 40 "whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship."

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.