PhD Student Awards

Wharton Doctoral Programs

Applied Economics

Christina Zhang

  • One of the 2012 recipients of the “Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students”

Andrew Paciorek, Ph.D. 2011

  • Received the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association Dissertation Award

“Social Interaction Effects and Individual Portfolio Choice: Evidence from 401(k) Pension Plan Investors” by Timothy Lu

  • Award for the Best Doctoral Student Paper in Behavioral Finance, Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, 2011

Cindy Soo

  • AFA Doctoral Student Travel Grant, American Economic Association, 2011

Health Care Management and Economics

Shulamite Chiu

Erin Taylor

  • AHRQ Health Services Research Dissertation Grant Award, 2012

Finance

William Mann

  • Stuart I. Greenbaum Award for Best Finance Dissertation at the Annual Conference held by Washington University in St. Louis, November 1-3, 2013.

Darien Huang  

  • “Best Paper on Derivatives” at the 2013 Northern Finance Association Conference in Quebec city.

Christine  Dobridge

  • de la Cruz Fellowship for research in behavioral finance , 2012.

Brent Glover

  • Charles River Associates Award for the Best Corporate Finance Paper, Western Finance Association Meeting, 2011
  • SAC Capital Awards, Western Finance Association Meeting, 2011

Oliver Levine

  • SAC Capital Awards, Western Finance Association Meeting, 2011

James Park

  • SAC Capital Awards, Western Finance Association Meeting, 2011

Management

Justin Berg
Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for research project “Creative Forecasting: Improving the Selection and Rejection of Novel Ideas in Organizations” Faculty Advisor: Adam Grant

  • A recipient of the 2012 Penn Prize for Teaching Excellence by a Graduate Student.
  • Finalist, Best Paper, Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2010 (one of the top five papers in JOB in 2010)
  • Finalist, Best Paper in Positive Organizational Scholarship, 2010

Thomas Klueter

  • Best Conference Paper PhD Prize, Strategic Management Society, 2010
  • Nominee, Best Paper for Practical Implications Award, Strategic Management Society, 2010

Andrew Knight (placed at Washington University of St. Louis, 2010. PhD 2009)

  • Best Conference Paper Based on a dissertation, OB Division, Academy of Management, 2011

Joon Mahn Lee

  • Nominee, Best Conference Paper PhD Prize, Strategic Management Society, Miami Conference 2011

Philipp Meyer-Doyle

  • Nominee, Best Paper for Practical Implications Award, Strategic Management Society, Miami Conference, 2011

Lite Narteyx (placed at University of South Carolina, 2011. PhD Expected 2012)

  • Nominee, Best Paper for Practical Implications Awad, Strategic Management Society, Miami Conference 2011
  • Douglas Nigh Award for Best Paper by a junior scholar, IMD Division, academy of Management, 2011
  • Nominee, Robert H. Schaffer Award for the best Paper in Applied Intenational Management, IMD Division, Academy of Management, 2011
  • Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education, Dissertation Proposal Award, 2010
  • Best Paper, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) PhD Sustainability Academy, 2010
  • Nominee, Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar, 2010

Ram Ranganathan

  • Strategy Research Foundation Grant for Dissertation Proposal “Controlling or Complying? The Opportunities and Challenges of Coordinated Technological Change” Ram will present his paper as a member of a select panel of Dissertation Scholars at the Strategic Management Society’s Conference in Prague, October 7-9, 2012.
  • Finalist, Best Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, Miami Conference, 2011
  • Best Conference Paper Based on a dissertation, OB Division, Academy of Management, 2011

Operations and Information Management

Hengchen Dai

  • Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for Research Project with Marketing PhD Student Cindy Chan, Don’t Tell Me What to Do!  Consumer Reviews Are Valued Less for Experiential Purchases.  Faculty Advisor: Cassie Mogilner

Santiago Gallino

  • Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for Research Project, Online-Offline Retail Dilemmas: An Empirical Analysis of ‘Showrooming’ Faculty Advisor: David Bell

Dokyun Lee

  • Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for Research Project, “Friending Consumers”:  The Effect of Advertising Content on Consumer Engagement in social Media and Online Retail.   Faculty Advisor: Kartik Hosanagar

Alison Wood

  • Best Conerence Paper with a Student as First Author, International Association for Conflict Management, 2010
  • Winkelman Fellowship, 2010-2013
  • Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center Ackoff Fellowship, 2009-2011

Joel Wooten

  • Mack Center Fellowship, 2011-2012

Statistics

Julie Novak

  • Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for research project A Model for Estimation of Anonymous Visits on Websites.   Faculty Advisors: Eric Bradlow (primary), Elea Feit, Shane Jensen

Jose Zubizarreta

  • President Guttman Leadership Awward –Spring 2012

Emil Pitkin

  • First Prize in the Penn Art of Research Symposium, May 2012

Marketing

Jonathan Berman

  • A winner of the 2013 MSI Alden G. Clayton Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition.

Valeria Montero

  • Baker Center PhD Grant 2013 for Research, Project Multi-Partner Loyalty Programs  Faculty Advisor: Eric Bradlow

Kyu Kim

  • 2013 JCR Ferber Award for Dissertation Paper ” Space, time and intertemporal preferences”.