2026 Michigan Ross Faculty Awards and Honors
At the Ross School of Business, faculty are often recognized for their excellence and impact in many different fields. This past year, they’ve earned awards and honors that showcase their leadership, innovative research, and important contributions to their disciplines. Below is a look at some of their recent accomplishments.
M.S. Krishnan delivered the second edition of the CK Prahalad Next Practice Oration, organized by the CK Prahalad Foundation and spearheaded by TVS Capital Funds in Chennai, India. M.S. Krishnan also received the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award.
Hyun-Soo Ahn delivered a keynote at the 2025 SBS D-Forum and conducted SBS-sponsored research on a new growth formula for South Korea.
Ravi Anupindi and colleagues on a multi-disciplinary team were awarded the 2026-2028 OVPR Impact Institutes Seed Stage Program of the University of Michigan for the proposed institute titled "The Global Supply Chain Intelligence Institute". He also chaired and hosted the 18th Global Health Supply Chain Summit.
Sue Ashford, along with her co-authors, was given the 2025 Scholarly Contribution Award from Administrative Science Quarterly for her 2019 paper, "The Agony and the Ecstasy in the Gig Economy." The award honors an article published five years prior that has subsequently had the greatest impact on organization studies.
Marcus Collins gave the keynote address at the Culture Shifters Summit, hosted at the Ross School of Business. He also emceed the Thinkers50 London Summit and Awards Gala.
Izak Duenyas was given the 2025 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society Distinguished Fellow Award.
Cheng Gao was named the inaugural Jay Lorsch Seminar Honoree at Harvard Business School and delivered a research talk on the paper “Confronting Grand Challenges: Nonprofit Actors, Institutional Voids, and the Orchestration of a New Industry” at HBS.
David Hess has become co-editor-in-chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal.
Andy Hoffman’s latest book, Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market, was awarded a silver medal in the business theory category from the Axiom Business Book Awards. It was also a finalist for the 2026 PROSE Award in the business, finance, and management category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division.
Jeremy Kress has become a fellow for Corporate Power and Financial Regulation at the Roosevelt Institute.
Venkatram Ramaswamy’s 2016 International Journal of Research in Marketing paper, “Brand Value Co-Creation in a Digitalized World: An Integrative Framework and Research Implications”, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Jan-Benedict Steenkamp Award for Long-Term Impact.
Jordan Siegel organized the Global Business and Comparative Corporate Governance Research Conference, which was hosted at Ross.
Eric Schwartz’s paper "Where A/B Testing Goes Wrong: How Divergent Delivery Affects What Online Experiments Cannot (and Can) Tell You About How Customers Respond to Advertising," is a finalist for both the 2025 Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award and the 2025 AMA/Marketing Science Institute/H. Paul Root Award.
Francesca Truffa was awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Grant for my project on “Diversifying Innovation: How Student Debt Affects Diversity in Entrepreneurship”. She also won the 2025 Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) Award for the Best Empirical Finance Paper for “Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students.”
Brian Wu was elected division chair of the Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management.
Siyu Yu has been selected as a winner of the 2026 Responsible Research in Management Award. Sponsored by the Academy of Management Fellows and the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) network, this award highlights her Organization Science article titled “The Company She Seeks: How the Prismatic Effects of Ties to High-Status Network Contacts Can Reduce Status for Women in Groups.”
