Faculty

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.”

International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT) has recognized Ed Roberts, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology, and Eric von Hippel, Professor of Management of Innovation, as two of the top 50 authors of technology and innovation management over the last 5 years. This exceptional achievement places Roberts and von Hippel within the top 1% of all researchers in the field.

Wanda Orlikowski and JoAnne Yates won the 2014 Best Information Systems Publications Award given by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The award recognizes the breadth of high-quality work that is being published in the information systems discipline across a range of journals. The winning paper (co-authored with their former doctoral student, Melissa Mazmanian, now at UC Irvine) is entitled “The Autonomy Paradox: The Implications of Mobile Email Devices for Knowledge Professionals.”