Excellence in scholarly research, including an ongoing research program that promises to make significant contributions to our understanding of the field of business.

2021 NBD Bancorp Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Cheng Gao, Strategy

Cheng Gao is an assistant professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business. His research focuses on strategy in nascent industries, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, and nonmarket strategy.

2020: Jeremy Kress Business Law

2019: Julia Lee Cunningham, Management & Organizations

2018: Jun Li, Technology & Operations

2017: Yue Maggie Zhou, Strategy

2016: Martin C. Schmalz, Finance & Real Estate

2015: Leigh Tost, Management & Organizations

2013: Denis Sosyura, Finance & Real Estate

2012: Edward (Ned) Smith, Strategy

2011: David Mayer, Management & Organizations

2010: D. Scott DeRue, Management & Organizations

2009: Sreedhar Bharath, Finance & Real Estate

2008: Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Finance & Real Estate

2007: Michael Jensen, Strategy

2006: David Hess Law, History and Communication

2005: Michelle Hanlon, Accounting

2004: Fred Feinberg, Marketing

2003: Reuven Lehavey, Accounting

2002: Venky Nagar, Accounting

2001: Tyler Shumway, Finance & Real Estate

2000: Tim Fort Law, History and Communication

1999: Joanne Oxley, Corporate Strategy & International Business

1998: Paul Damien, Operations and Management Science 

1997 Vikram Nanda, Finance & Real Estate

1996 Kathleen Sutcliffe, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

1995 Venkat Ramaswamy, Marketing

Excellence in scholarly research, including an ongoing research program that promises to make significant contributions to our understanding of the field of business.

2021 Sanford Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Nirupama Rao, Business Economics & Public Policy

Nirupama Rao is an assistant professor of business economics and public policy at the Ross School of Business. Her research concerns the economic effects of fiscal policy, focusing on the impact of policy on firm production, investment, and pricing decisions.

2020: Derek Harmon Strategy

2019: Anna Costello, Accounting

2018: Sarah Miller, Business Economics & Public Policy

2017: Seth Carnahan, Strategy

2016: Kyle Handley, Business Economics & Public Policy

2015: Kanishka Misra, Marketing

2014: Xun (Brian) Wu, Strategy

2013: Stephen G. Leider, Technology & Operations

2012: Maxim Sytch, Management & Organizations

2011: Ran Duchin, Finance & Real Estate

2010: Catherine Shakespeare, Accounting

2009: Anocha Aribarg, Marketing

2008: Robert F. Dittmar, Finance & Real Estate

2007: Haitao Li, Finance & Real Estate

2006: Hyun Soo Ahn, Operations and Management Science 

2005: Sendil K. Ethiraj, Corporate Strategy & International Business

2004: Venky Nagar,  Accounting

2003: Jeffrey Sanchez Burks, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

2002: Roman Kapuscinski, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

2001: Ilia Dichev, Accounting

2000: Zeynep Gurhan-Canli, Marketing

1999: Fiona Lee, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management

1998: David Weinstein, Business Economics & Public Policy

1997: Dana Muir, Law, History and Communication

1996: Anand Swaminathan, Corporate Strategy & International Business

1995: Francine Lafontaine, Business Economics & Public Policy

1994: Peter Lenk, Operations and Management Science 

1993: Charles Lee, Accounting

1992: Youjae Yi

Excellence in scholarly research that goes beyond the comfort zone of incremental findings.

2021 Arnold M. and Linda T. Jacob Faculty Developmental Award

Sarah Miller, Business Economics & Public Policy

2020: Anant Nyshadham Business Economics

2019: Joline Uichanco, Technology & Operations

2018: Eric Schwartz, Marketing

2017: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Business Economics & Public Policy

2016: Stefanus Jasin, Technology & Operations

2015: Christopher Williams, Accounting

2013: Felipe Csaszar, Strategy

2012: Brent McFerran, Marketing

2011: Scott Rick, Marketing

2010: Srinivasaraghavan Sriram, Marketing

2009: Damian R. Beil, Operations and Management Science 

2008: Anirban Mukhopadhyay, Business Economics & Public Policy

The award was established to honor the memory of Professor Victor Bernard and recognizes a broad range of teaching endeavors, work with PhD students, course design, and work with colleagues.

2021 Victor L. Bernard Faculty Teaching Leadership Award

Ted London, Business Administration

Ted London is the Ford Motor Company Clinical Professor and area chair of business administration at the Ross School of Business and a senior research fellow at the William Davidson Institute. An internationally recognized expert on the intersection of business strategy and poverty alleviation, his research focuses on how organizations can achieve impact at scale, with a particular focus on building sustainable, scalable enterprises for low-income markets.

2020: James P. Walsh, Management & Organizations, Strategy

2019: Ravi Anupindi, Technology & Operations

2018: Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Business Economics & Public Policy

2017: Amitabh Sinha, Technology & Operations

2016: Gregory S. Miller, Accounting

2015: Dana Muir, Business Law

2014: Linda Y.C. Lim, Strategy

2013: Thomas J. Schriber, Technology & Operations

2012: Rajeev Batra, Marketing

2011: George J. Siedel, Law, History and Communication

2010: Michael D. Gordon, Business Administration

2009: Gautam Kaul, Finance & Real Estate

2009: Lance Sandelands, Management & Organizations

2008: Paula J. Caproni, Management & Organizations

2007: Aneel G. Karnani, Strategy

2006: William S. Lovejoy, Technology & Operations

2005: M.P. Narayanan, Finance & Real Estate

2004: Valerie Y. Suslow, Business Economics & Public Policy

2003: George D. Cameron, Law, History and Communication

2002: Richard G. Sloan, Accounting

2021 BBA Teaching Excellence Award

Marcus Collins, LEO Lecturer

Marcus Collins is an award-winning advertiser and a lecturer of marketing at the Ross School of Business, where he helps bridge the academic-practitioner gap for both degree-seeking students and business executives.

2020: Cheng Gao, Assistant Professor of Strategy

2019: Jeremy Kress, Assistant Professor of Business Law

2018: Lori Rogala, Lecturer of Business Law

2017: Mary Hinesly, Professor of Executive Education

2016: Brad Killaly, Associate Dean, FT & Global MBA Programs and Clinical Professor of Strategy

2015: Brad Killaly, Associate Dean, FT & Global MBA Programs and Clinical Professor of Strategy

2014: Scott Rick, Associate Professor of Marketing

2013: Lynn Wooten

2012: Edward (Ned) Smith

2011: Owen Wu

2010: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2009: Owen Wu

2008: Daniel Gruber

2007: Damian Beil, Professor of Technology and Operations

2006: Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2005: Victoria Johnson

2021 Full-Time MBA Teaching Excellence Award

Ryan Ball, Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting

Ryan Ball is the Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business.

2020: Lindsey Gallo, Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting

2019: Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy

2018: Ryan Ball, Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting

2017: Gautam Ahuja

2016: Ryan Ball, Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting​

2015: Aneel Karnani, Professor of Stategy

2014: Ryan Ball, Coopers and Lybrand, Norman E. Auerbach Assistant Professor of Accounting

2013: Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance

2012: Gautam Ahuja

2011: Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance

2010: Gautam Ahuja

2009: Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance

2008: Thomas Kinnear, Professor Emeritus of Marketing​

2007: Uday Rajan, David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administration

2006: Gautam Kaul, Professor of Finance

2005: Gautam Ahuja

2021 Weekend MBA Teaching Excellence Award

Chantel Lenard, Lecturer of Marketing

Chantel Lenard is an internationally experienced marketing executive who joined the faculty of the Ross School of Business in 2017.

2020: Jason Hall, Lecturer I in Business

2019: John Branch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of Yaffe Digital Media Initiative

2018: Laurie Morgan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations and Lecturer of Management and Organizations

2017: Wally Hopp, C.K. Prahalad Distinguished Professor of Business and Engineering, Professor of Technology and Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, and Associate Dean for PTMBA

2016: Aneel Karnani, Professor of Stategy

2015: John Branch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of Yaffe Digital Media Initiative

2014: Aneel Karnani, Professor of Stategy

2013: Thomas Kinnear, Professor Emeritus of Marketing​​

2012: Aneel Karnani, Professor of Stategy

2020: Pascale Leroueil, LEO Intermittent Lecturer

2019: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2018: Venky Nagar, KPMG Professor of Accounting and Teitelbaum Research Scholar

2017: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2016: Martin Schmalz

2015: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2014: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2013: Eric Svaan, Lecturer of Technology and Operations

2012: Gautam Ahuja

2011: Puneet Manchanda, Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Marketing

2009:​ Charles "Chip" Klemstine, Lecturer of Accounting

2021 Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award

Reuven Lehavy, Victor L. Bernard - Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Collegiate Professor of Accounting, Faculty Director, Paton Accounting Center

Reuven Lehavy's research interests include the usefulness of financial analysts' price targets, stock recommendations and earnings forecasts; firms' use of accounting report discretion (earnings management); and the interaction between analysts' earnings forecasts targets and firms' reporting choices.

2020: M.P. Narayanan, Robert Morrison Hoffer Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Finance

2019: Puneet Manchanda, Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Marketing

2018: Reuven "Roby" Lehavy, Victor L. Bernard- Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP Collegiate Professor of Accouting and Faculty Director, Paton Accounting Center

2017: M.P. Narayanan, Hoffer Professor of Business Administration

2016: Izak Duenyas, Herrick Professor of Business, Professor of Technology and Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering

2015: Gautam Ahuja

2014: Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2013: Izak Duenyas, Herrick Professor of Business, Professor of Technology and Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering

2012 (April): Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2012 (August): Minyuan Zhao

2011: Gautam Ahuja

2010: MP Narayanan, Hoffer Professor of Business Administration

2009: Izak Duenyas, Herrick Professor of Business, Professor of Technology and Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering

2008: MP Narayanan, Hoffer Professor of Business Administration

2007: Thomas Kinnear, Professor Emeritus of Marketing​​

2006: MP Narayanan, Hoffer Professor of Business Administration

2005: Thomas Kinnear, Professor Emeritus of Marketing​​​

2021 Global MBA Teaching Excellence Award

Felipe Csaszar, Associate Professor of Strategy

Felipe Csaszar is an associate professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business. His research focuses on how managers’ mental representations and firms’ decision-making structures affect firm-level outcomes such as innovation, speed, and profits.

2020: Priscilla Rogers, Associate Professor Emerita of Management Communication

2019: Michael Jensen, Professor of Strategy

2018: Damian Beil, Professor of Technology and Operations and Ford Motor Company Co-Director of the Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations

2017: Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2016: Bill Lanen, KPMG Professor Emeritus of Accounting and Professor Emeritus of Accounting

2015: Priscilla S. Rogers, Associate Professor Emerita of Management Communication

2014: Damian Beil, Professor of Technology and Operations and Ford Motor Company Co-Director of the Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations

2013: Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2012: Puneet Manchanda, Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Marketing

2011: Hyun-Soo Ahn, Whirlpool Corp. Research Professor of Business Administration

2010: Wally Hopp, C.K. Prahalad Distinguished Professor of Business and Engineering, Professor of Technology and Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, and Associate Dean for PTMBA

2009: Aneel Karnani, Professor of Strategy

2008: Andy Gershoff

2007: E. Han Kim, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration

2021 MAcc Teaching Excellence Award

James DeSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

James DeSimpelare's research focuses on taxation and fixed income analysis.

2020: Gwen Yu, Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting; Associate Professor of Accounting

2019: Catherine Shakespeare, , Arthur Anderson Professor of Accounting and Associate Professor of Accounting

2018: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2017: Robert "Bob" Totte, Lecturer of Accounting

2016: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2015: Charles "Chip" Klemstine, Lecturer of Accounting

2014: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2013: Feng Li

2012: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2011: Charles "Chip" Klemstine, Lecturer of Accounting

2010: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2009: Charles "Chip" Klemstine, Lecturer of Accounting

2008: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2007: George Siedel, Professor Emeritus of Business Law

2006: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2005: James deSimpelare, Lecturer of Accounting

2021 Master of Management Teaching Excellence Award

Jerry Mathis, PhD Candidate, Accounting

2020: Lori Rogala, Lecturer of Business Law

2019: John Branch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of Yaffe Digital Media Initiative

2018: Brad Killaly, Associate Dean, FT & Global MBA Programs and Clinical Professor of Strategy

2017: John Branch, Clinical Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Co-Director of Yaffe Digital Media Initiative

2016: Ari Shwayder, LEO Lecturer of Business Economics and Public Policy

2015: Brad Killaly, Associate Dean, FT & Global MBA Programs and Clinical Professor of Strategy

2021 MSCM Teaching Excellence Award

Roman Kapuscinski, John Psarouthakis Research Professor of Manufacturing Management, Professor of Technology and Operations

Roman Kapuscinski's research focuses on supply chain management and intersection of operational aspects with marketing and finance. This includes topics such as the value of information in coordinating the elements of supply chains, optimal design of production-inventory systems with capacity constraints, efficiency as a function of ownership within value chain analysis, and lead-time quotation.

2020: Sam Aflaki, Visiting Associate Professor of Technology and Operations

2019: ​Ravi Anupindi, John Psarouthakis Research Professor of Manufacturing Management, Professor of Technology and Operations, and Chair of Technology and Operations

2018: ​Roman Kapuscinski, John Psarouthakis Research Professor of Manufacturing Management, Professor of Technology and Operations, and Chair of Technology and Operations

2021 PhD Teaching Excellence Award

Fred Feinberg, Joseph Handleman Professor of Marketing, Professor of Statistics, Chair of Marketing

Fred Feinberg's research examines how people make choices in uncertain environments. His work focuses on using statistical models to explain complex decision patterns, particularly involving sequential choices among related items (e.g., brands in the same category) and dyads (e.g., people choosing one another in online dating).

2020: Katherine Burson, Associate Professor of Marketing

2019: Yue "Maggie" Zhou,  Associate Professor of Strategy

2018: Fred Feinberg,  Joseph Handleman Professor of Marketing, Professor of Statistics, and Chair of Marketing

2017: Gautam Ahuja

2016: Carolyn Yoon, Professor of Marketing

2015: Brian Wu, Associate Professor of Strategy and Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow

2014: Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Michael Stark Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance

2013: Gerald F. Davis, Associate Dean for Businees + Impact, Gilbert and Ruth Whitake Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management and Organizations

2012: Uday Rajan, David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administration, Chair and Professor of Finance and Real Estate

2011: Fred Feinberg,  Joseph Handleman Professor of Marketing, Professor of Statistics, and Chair of Marketing

2010: Gautam Ahuja

2009: Andy Gershoff

2008: Anne Harrington

2007: Gerald F. Davis, Associate Dean for Businees + Impact, Gilbert and Ruth Whitake Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management and Organizations

2006: Jane Dutton, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

2005: Sendil Ethiraj