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Faculty Research & Teaching Excellence Awards

Our faculty are at the cutting edge of business research and education. To end the 2023-2024 school year, alums and students from each MBA program recognize their most impactful professors with teaching awards. We also honor faculty members whose groundbreaking research and influential scholarship elevate Rice Business as a top-ranked institution.

PhD Mentoring Award

Kerry Back
J. Howard Creekmore Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics
Finance Area Coordinator

Professor Kerry Back is this year’s PhD Mentoring Award winner. His award was presented by Patrick Blonien, a current PhD student and an incoming Assistant Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. Kerry was the chair of Patrick’s dissertation committee.

Research Awards

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Head of Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative and Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Ralph S. O’Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship – Finance
Sora Jun
Assistant Professor of Management – Organizational Behavior
Ajay Kalra
Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Marketing
Marketing Area Coordinator
Daan van Knippenberg
Houston Endowed Professor of Management – Organizational Behavior
Ph.D. Area Advisor
Nicola Secomandi
Houston Endowment Professor of Management – Operations Management
Senior Advisor to the Dean on Energy Transition
Shiva Sivaramakrishnan
Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Accounting
Academic Director of Healthcare Programming
Tarik Umar
Verne F. Simons Distinguished Assistant Professor

Teaching Awards

Balaji Koka
Associate Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director of Global Programming
Ben Lansford
Director of the MAcc Program
Professor in the Practice of Accounting
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