Faculty Awards

2024

  • Serguei Netessine – Finalist in the 2023 INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship Section’s (TIMES) best working paper competition for “Privately-Owned Battery Storage- Reshaping The Way We Do Energy”., 2023

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Lynn Wu – Kauffman Best Paper Award, 2019
  • Lynn Wu – Best Student Paper Runner up at CHITA, 2019
  • Joseph Simmons – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2019
  • Hamsa Bastani – 2nd Place, Service Science Best Paper Award, 2019
  • Hamsa Bastani – 1st Place, Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare, 2019
  • Hummy Song – Finalist, Best OM Paper in Management Science Award, 2019
  • Lynn Wu – The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award, 2019 Description

    The Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award recognizes and honors early career individuals who are on a path towards making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.

  • Gerry Tsoukalas – 2019 INFORMS Section on Finance Best Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, 2019
  • Morris A. Cohen – Plenary Speaker, International Symposium, Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association, 2019
  • Morris A. Cohen – Advisory Board, Center for Transportation & Logistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
  • Hamsa Bastani – People’s Choice Award, Early-Career Sustainable OM Workshop, 2019
  • Simone Marinesi – M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2019
  • Xuanming Su – Best Paper Award in Management Science, Finalist, 2019

2018

2017

  • Serguei Netessine – Finalist, 2015 MSOM Service Management SIG Prize for the best paper on service management published in the past three years., 2017
  • Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe – Management Science Best Paper Published in Information Systems, 2016
  • Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe – Information Systems Research, Best Associate Editor, 2017
  • Katherine L. Milkman – Finalist for the Thinkers50 Radar Award, 2017
  • Katherine L. Milkman – William F. O’Dell Award for the Most Impactful 2012 Journal of Marketing Research Article, 2017
  • Christian Terwiesch – Distinguished Fellow: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017
  • Christian Terwiesch – Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award (Philadelphia), 2017
  • Christian Terwiesch – Executive MBA Excellence in Teaching Award (San Francisco), 2017
  • Xuanming Su – MSOM Practice-Based Research Award, Finalist, 2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

  • Katherine L. Milkman – Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Scholar Award, 2012
  • Thomas Y. Lee – Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching, 2009
  • Maurice Schweitzer – Finalist for the Exeter Prize in Experimetnal Economics, 2012 Description

    Pope, D. & Schweitzer, M. Is Tiger Woods loss averse? Persistent bias in the face of experience, competition, and high stakes. American Economic Review

    This paper was one of five finalists for the 2012 Exeter Prize for the best paper published in the previous year in Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, and Decision Theory.

  • Joseph Simmons – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
  • Joseph Simmons – One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2012
  • Christian Terwiesch – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Goes above and beyond the call of duty”, 2012
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Tough, but I’ll thank you in 5 years”, 2012
  • Christian Terwiesch – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award winner, 2012
  • Gérard Cachon – “Tough, but I’ll thank you in 5 years”, 2012

2011

2010

  • Jehoshua EliashbergFellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2010
  • Maurice Schweitzer – IACM, Best Conference Paper with a Student as First Author, 2010 Description

    Brooks, A. & Schweitzer, M. (2011). Can Nervous Nelly negotiate? How anxiety causes negotiators to make low first offers, exit early, and earn less profit. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 115(1), 43-54.

    This paper won the Best Conference Paper with a Student as First Author Award at the International Association for Conflict Management Conference, 2010.

  • Jehoshua EliashbergFellow of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science, 2010
  • Maurice Schweitzer – Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA Teaching, Wharton School, 2010
  • Hummy Song – Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2010
  • Cade Massey – Google Faculty Research Grant, 2010
  • Cade Massey – Teaching Excellence Award, MBA-E Program, Yale School of Management, 2010-2011
  • Xuanming Su – Best Paper Award, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, 2010
  • Sergei Savin – Class of 1984 Award, 2010
  • Sergei Savin – “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” Award, 2010-2011
  • Sergei Savin – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
  • Sergei Savin – One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2010
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Management Science Distinguished Service Award, 2010
  • Christian Terwiesch – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
  • Christian Terwiesch – One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2010
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Tough but I will thank you in five years” award recipient, 2011
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2011
  • Kartik Hosanagar – One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2010
  • Kartik Hosanagar – “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2010
  • John C. Hershey – Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2010
  • Noah Gans – Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010-2011
  • Gérard Cachon – M&SOM Best Paper Award Finalist 2010 for “In Search of the Bullwhip Effect”, 2010
  • Karl Ulrich – Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award – MBA Program, 2010
  • Karl Ulrich – Excellence in Teaching Award – Undergraduate Division, 2010

2009

  • Lynn Wu – Best Paper Award at ICIS, 2009
  • Xuanming Su – Best Paper Award, Behavioral Operations Section, INFORMS, 2009
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2009
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Tough but I will thank you in five years” award recipient, 2009
  • Christian Terwiesch – “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2009
  • Christian Terwiesch – Executive MBA Core Teaching Award, 2009
  • Uri Simonsohn – Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 2009
  • Gérard Cachon – “Tough, But I’ll Thank You in 5 Years Award”, 2009

2008

  • Katherine L. Milkman – The Wyss Award from Harvard Business School for Excellence in Doctoral Research, 2008
  • Monique Guignard-Spielberg – Received the 2008 Computational Optimization And Applications Best Paper Award, 2008 Description

    “An Algorithm for the Generalized Quadratic Assignment Problem,” Peter M. Hahn, Bum-Jin Kim, Monique Guignard, J. MacGregor Smith and Yi-Rong Zhu, Computational Optimization and Applications,  July 2008, Vol. 40, Iss. 3, 351-372.

  • Monique Guignard-Spielberg – Received first prize at SOBRAPO Meeting in Brazil, 2008 Description

    “Algorithms for the generalized quadratic assignment problem combining Lagrangean decomposition and the Reformulation-Linearization Technique,”  Artur Alves Pessoa, Peter M. Hahn, Monique Guignard and Yi-Rong Zhu. European Journal of Operational Research, October 2010, vol. 206, issue 1, 54-63.

  • Maurice Schweitzer – Best Paper Award for the Conflict Management Division at the Academy of Management Conference, 2008 Description

    The paper (co-authored with Francesca Gino) is “In the Mood for Advice: The Influence of Emotions on Advice Taking.”

  • Morris A. Cohen – Plenary Speaker, German Operations Research Society, 2008
  • Xuanming Su – NSF CAREER Award, 2008-2013
  • Hummy Song – Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis, 2008
  • Xuanming Su – Schwabacher Fellowship, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009
  • Xuanming Su – Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award, Production and Operations Management Society, 2008
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – MSOM Distinguished Service Award, 2008
  • Christian Terwiesch – Wharton Class of 2008 “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2008
  • Noah Gans – NSF Service Enterprise Engineering Award, Co-Principal Investigator, 2008-2010
  • Gérard Cachon – MSOM Society Service award, 2008

2007

  • Karl Ulrich – Excellence in Teaching Award – The Wharton School, 2007
  • Xuanming Su – Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2007
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Finalist of the INFORMS JFIG paper competition, 2007
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Wharton MACK Center Grant, 2007
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Fishman-Davidson Center Research Grant, 2007
  • Christian Terwiesch – MBA Core Teaching Award, 2007
  • Christian Terwiesch – One of ten faculty nominated by the MBA student body for the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2007
  • Howard Kunreuther – World Economic Forum, Davos, 2007-2013
  • Kartik Hosanagar – Wharton Class of 2009 “Goes above and beyond the call of duty” award recipient, 2007
  • Kartik Hosanagar – MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2007
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 2007-2008
  • John C. Hershey – Named one of top 50 management science professors (in 225 American Business Schools), 2007
  • Monique Guignard-Spielberg – Invited to attend the XII Combinatorial Optimization Meeting in, 2007
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Institute for Operations Research and Management Science George E. Kimball Medal, in recognition of distinguished service to the profession of operations research and the management sciences, 2007
  • Morris A. Cohen – Tibbets Award, National Science Foundation – SBIR, 2007
  • Morris A. Cohen – Inaugural POMS International Distinguished Lectureship Award, 2007

2006

  • Christian Terwiesch – Miller-Sherrerd Core Teaching Award, 2006
  • Christian Terwiesch – MBA Core Curriculum Award “Goes above and beyond the call of duty”, 2006
  • Thomas Y. Lee – Wharton nominee for Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Wharton School, 2006
  • Christian Terwiesch – Teaching Awards for MBA and Executive MBA teaching, 1998-2005
  • Karl Ulrich – Distinguished Fellow – POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management, 2006
  • Xuanming Su – Junior Faculty Paper Competition, INFORMS, Honorable Mention, 2006
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Wharton WeBi Grant, 2006

2005

  • Thomas Y. Lee – David W. Hauck Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wharton School, 2005
  • Howard Kunreuther – American Association of the Advancement of Science: AAAS Fellow, 2005
  • John C. Hershey – Named a “Favorite Course” by MBA Program for Executives, 2005
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award, given in honor of Philip McCord Morse, MIT Professor and one of the founders of the field of Operations Research, 2005
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Production and Operations Management Society Fellow Award, 2005

2004

  • Katherine L. Milkman – The Lore von Jaskowsky Memorial Prize in Engineering from Princeton University, 2004
  • Katherine L. Milkman – The Willard Thorp Thesis Prize in American Studies from Princeton University, 2004
  • Katherine L. Milkman – Omega Rho Undergraduate Project Research Award from INFORMS, 2004
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Best Student Teacher Award (CMU), 2004
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – William W. Cooper Dissertation Award, 2004
  • Noah Gans – Miller-Scherrerd Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Wharton MBA Core, 2004
  • Gérard Cachon – Miller-Sherrerd teaching award: Awarded to the 8 professors with the highest core teaching evaluations, 2004
  • Cade Massey – Daimler Chrysler Elective Teaching Award, Fuqua School of Business, 2004-2005
  • Xuanming Su – George E. Dantzig Dissertation Award, INFORMS, Honorable Mention, 2004
  • Senthil Veeraraghavan – Carnegie-Bosch Grant, 2004
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Runner-up for Best Paper, International Conference on Information Systems, 2004
  • John C. Hershey – Core Teaching Award for MBA Program for Executives, 2004
  • Marshall L. Fisher – 13th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture on the Practice of Management Science, University of Cincinnati, 2004
  • Marshall L. Fisher – The paper M. L. Fisher “The Lagrangian Relaxation Method for Solving Integer Programming Problems” published in Management Science in 1981 was voted by the membership of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science as one of the ten most influential papers published in Management Science during its 50 year history, 2004
  • Morris A. Cohen – Senior Fellow, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, INFORMS, 2004
  • Gérard Cachon – MSOM Meritorious Service award, 2004

2003

  • Maurice Schweitzer – Best Empirical Paper Award in Conflict Management, AoM, 2003 Description

    Dunn, J. & Schweitzer, M. (2005). Feeling and believing: The influence of emotion on trust. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88

    This paper won the Best Empirical Paper Award in the Conflict Management Division at the Academy of Management, August 2003. A short version of this paper was published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, August 2003.

  • Christian Terwiesch – MBA Core Curriculum Award “Goes above and beyond the Call of duty”, 2003
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 2003
  • John C. Hershey – Distinguished Lifetime Service Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2003
  • Noah Gans – Mitchner Award in Quality Sciences and Quality Management, 2003
  • Noah Gans – Co-Principal Investigator, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant, 2003-2004
  • Noah Gans – Senior Personnel, NSF Engineering the Service Sector Award, 2003-2004
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Listed by ISI Web of Science Highly Cited as one of the 250 most cited researchers in economics and management, 2003

2002

  • Gérard Cachon – Tough, But I’ll Thank You in 5 Years” Award, given by the Wharton Graduate Students Association, 2002
  • Cade Massey – Daimler Chrysler Elective Teaching Award, Fuqua School of Business, 2002-2003
  • Christian Terwiesch – Teaching Excellence Award (Wharton), 2002
  • Christian Terwiesch – Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 2002
  • Christian Terwiesch – Executive MBA Teaching Award for best Core Course, 2002
  • Christian Terwiesch – Finalist in the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2002
  • Christian Terwiesch – Research Grant from Wharton e-Business Initiative for Analysis of Name-Your-Own Price Retailing, 2002 Description

    $7,000

  • Marshall L. Fisher – Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society Fellow Award, 2002
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Fellow Award, 2002

2001

  • Noah Gans – Meritorious Service Award, as Associate Editor of Operations Research, 2001
  • Ziv Katalan – MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Teaching Award, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1997, 1999, 2001
  • Christian Terwiesch – Teaching Excellence Award (Wharton), 2001
  • Christian Terwiesch – Miller-Sherrerd MBA Core Teaching Award, 2001
  • Christian Terwiesch – Finalist in the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award, 2001
  • Christian Terwiesch – Research Grant from Wharton e-Business Initiative for Analysis of Name-Your-Own Price Retailing, 2001 Description

    $17.1K

  • Howard Kunreuther – Society for Risk Analysis: Distinguished Achievement Award, 2001
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2001

2000

1999

  • Lorin M. Hitt – David Hauck Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1999
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching, 1999
  • Gérard Cachon – ‘Fuqua School of Business’ Daimler-Chrysler Teaching Award for Innovation and Excellence in an Elective Course, 1999
  • Jehoshua Eliashberg – Inaugural Winner of the Carol and Bruce Mallen Prize, 1999 Description

    For Published Scholarly Contributions to Motion Picture Industry Studies

  • Christian Terwiesch – Teaching Excellence Award (Wharton), 1999
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Runner-up for Best Paper, International Conference on Information Systems, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Telecon Award for Best Continuing Education Program, awarded for Wharton’s Program in Building a Business Case, 1999
  • John C. Hershey – Best Paper Award, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1999
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1999
  • Morris A. Cohen – Institute of Industrial Engineers Best Paper Published in IIE Transactions, 1999

1998

  • Lorin M. Hitt – National Science Foundation Career Grant Recipient, 1998
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Wharton Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching, 1998
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1998
  • Morris A. Cohen – Fellow, International Academy of Management, 1998
  • Lorin M. Hitt – Wharton Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate Division, 1998-2001
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1998
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • Noah Gans – NSF CAREER Award, 1998
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1998

1997

  • Noah Gans – Wharton MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Teaching Award, 1997-2001
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1997

1996

  • Marshall L. Fisher – Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1996

1995

  • Noah Gans – First Prize, INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 1995
  • Christian Terwiesch – Daimler Benz Research Grant as a participant of the Circle Member Group, 1995
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1995

1994

  • Ziv Katalan – First Place Student Paper Award, The ORSA Technical Section on Manufacturing and Operations Management, 1994
  • Ziv Katalan – Honorable Mention in George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 1994
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 1994

1992

  • Howard Kunreuther – Society for Risk Analysis: Elected Fellow, 1992
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, 1992

1991

  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1991

1990

  • Howard Kunreuther – Society for Risk Analysis: Outstanding Service Award, 1990
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Awrd, The Wharton School, 1990
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1990
  • Morris A. Cohen – Edelman Prize for best practice in Operations Research (finalist), 1990
  • Morris A. Cohen – S.J. Hardy Award for Best Paper in Operations Management, Decision Sciences Institute, 1990

1989

  • Jehoshua Eliashberg – The Lauder Institute Award of Honorable Mention, 1989 Description

    For the Research Paper that Best Advances the Theory and Practice of International Management Science

  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989
  • Morris A. Cohen – Lauder Institute Prize for Advances in Theory and Practice of International Management, 1989

1988

  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Class of 1984 Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • John C. Hershey – Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988

1987

  • John C. Hershey – Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence, The Wharton School, 1987

1984

  • Marshall L. Fisher – National Council of Physical Distribution Management E. Grosvenor Plowman award for the paper “Computers in Transportation: From Integration to Intelligence” (co-authored with R. Jaikumar), 1984

1983

  • Howard Kunreuther – Wharton Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 1983
  • Marshall L. Fisher – Institute of Management Science Edelman Prize, awarded to the best implementation of management science in that year, for developing and implementing a very large optimization system to control deliveries of liquid oxygen and nitrogen, 1983

1982

1980

  • Howard Kunreuther – Western Electric Fund Award, 1980 Description

    (with Paul Schoemaker and Paul Kleindorfer) for the program “Decision Sciences Applied to University Problems.” The award is given annually for outstanding achievements in the area of educational innovation in undergraduate education for business administration.

1977

  • Marshall L. Fisher – Lanchester Prize awarded to the outstanding publication in the field of operations research in that year, for the paper “Location of Bank Accounts to Optimize Float: An Analytic study of Exact and Approximate Algorithms,” Management Science 23 (coauthored with G. Cornuejols and G. L. Nemhauser), 1977

1973

  • John C. Hershey – Award winner, “Society for Management Information Systems” Awards Paper Competition, 1973

1970