MBA Teaching Awards

The Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award

This year’s recipient of the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award is Cade Massey, a practice professor, in the operations, information & decisions department. The award is presented annually to a member of the Wharton MBA faculty who exemplifies outstanding teaching quality in the classroom. Nominees are selected through a vote of current MBA students. He was  chosen from among the nominees by a committee of past recipients, Wharton students and senior administrators. 

The Class of 1984 Award

The Class of 1984 Award is presented annually to the member of the Wharton MBA faculty with the highest average instructor rating on his or her course evaluations over the previous two semesters (Fall 2015 and Spring 2016). This year’s recipient is Adam Grant,
Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Management. 

Excellence in Teaching

Jennifer Blouin, associate professor of accounting

Eric Bradlow, K.P. Chao Professor of Marketing, Statistics & Education

Kartik Hosanagar, professor, operations,
information & decisions

Joan Lamm-Tennant, adjunct professor of business economics & public policy

Asuka Nakahara, lecturer, real estate

Emil Pitkin, lecturer, statistics

Nicolaj Siggelkow, David M. Knott Professor, management

Joseph Simmons, associate professor, operations, information & decisions 

Teaching and Curricular Innovation

Peter Fader, Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor; professor of marketing, for Wharton Online Ordinal Peer Performance Evaluation Engine (WHOOPPEE)

Corinne Low, assistant professor, business economics & public policy, for Microeconomics for Managers

Arthur van Benthem, assistant professor, business economics & public policy, for Energy Markets and Policy

Senthil Veeraraghavan, associate professor, operations, information & decisions, for Operations Strategy

Core Curriculum Awards—“Goes above and beyond the call of duty”

Adam Grant, Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Management

Emil Pitkin, lecturer, statistics

G. Richard Shell, Thomas Gerrity Professor; professor of legal studies & business ethics and management

Jules van Binsbergen, associate professor of finance

Lisa Warshaw, director, Wharton Communications Program

“Tough but we’ll thank you in five years”

Wayne Guay, Yageo Professor of Accounting

Corinne Low, assistant professor, business economics & public policy

Jules van Binsbergen, associate professor of finance

Senthil Veeraraghavan, associate professor, operations, information & decisions

Undergraduate Teaching Awards

Rapaport Family Undergraduate Core Teaching Award

One award is given to a member of the standing faculty teaching a core course. Selection is based upon course evaluations. 

Diana C. Robertson, James T. Riady Professor; professor of legal studies & business ethics

Undergraduate Excellence in Teaching Award in the Standing Faculty

Ten awards are given to members of the standing faculty, based upon their course evaluations and recommendations from both their department chairs and students.

Thomas Donaldson, Mark O. Winkelman Professor; professor of legal studies & business ethics

Peter Fader, Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor; co-director, Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative; professor of marketing

Kartik Hosanagar, professor, operations, information & decisions

Robert Jensen, David B. Ford Professor; professor of business economics & public policy; department chair, business economics & public policy

Katherine Klein, Edward H. Bowman Professor; professor of management; vice-dean, Wharton Social Impact Initiative

Katherine Milkman, associate professor of operations, information & decisions

Samir Nurmohamed, assistant professor of management

G. Richard Shell, Thomas Gerrity Professor; professor of legal studies & business ethics and management; chair, legal studies & business ethics

Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance

J. Michael Steele, C.F. Koo Professor; professor of statistics; professor of operations, information & decisions

William G. Whitney Award

Five awards are given to non-standing faculty based upon their course evaluations.

Steven Blum, lecturer, legal studies & business ethics

Stewart D. Friedman, practice professor of management; director, Wharton Work/Life Integration Project

Jerrilyn Greene Marston, lecturer, legal studies & business ethics

Morvarid Taheripour, lecturer, legal studies & business ethics

David Wessels, adjunct associate professor of finance