HBS Announces Doctoral Program Awards

The Harvard Business School has announced the recipients of awards for doctoral programs. These awards are the 2014 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Research as well as the Martin Awards for Excellence in Business Economics. The HBS Doctoral Programs faculty chair, Kathleen McGinn, announced the winners.

The two recipients of the 2014 Wyss Awards for Excellence in Doctoral Research are Kate Barasz (DBA, Marketing) and Frank Nagle (DBA, Technology and Operations Management).

The Wyss Awards are named in honor of Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965), who established the Hansjörg Wyss Endowment for Doctoral Education in 2004. The Wyss Endowment supports a broad range of efforts to strengthen the HBS Doctoral Programs, including fellowships and stipends for doctoral students, increased support for field research, new doctoral course development, teaching skills training and the renovation of doctoral facilities on campus.

Barasz’s work focuses on the implications of decision-making, examining the unseen and unanticipated causes and consequences of people’s choices Nagle’s research aims at quantifying the effects of digitization on how firms innovate and compete in the modern business environment.

The two winners of the Martin Awards for Excellence in Business Economics are Benjamin Hebert (Ph.D., Business Economics) and Ran Shorrer (Ph.D., Business Economics).

Hebert’s work explores the prevalence of debt securities, despite the excessive risk-taking they typically encourage. Shorrer’s research aims to develop reliable indexes for hard-to-measure systems.

The Roger Martin Fund for Doctoral Research was established in 2006 through the generosity of Roger Martin (MBA 1981), former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The fund was created in memory of HBS professor John Lintner, a world-renowned expert in finance, and one of Martin’s mentors.

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