The Top 15% Teaching Awards are to be given out once a year, in the fall semester, based on faculty performance during the previous academic year. For this award, the academic year is defined as consisting of the fall semester, the winter semester, the spring semester and summer semester sessions I and II, in that order. There are three categories of awards.
- Category 1 awards go to the Top 15% of full-time faculty (primarily tenure-track and Tyser Teaching Fellows).
- Category 2 awards go to the Top 15% of lecturers, adjunct faculty and PhD students.
- Category 3 awards will be made to the top 15% of faculty teaching in the MBA core and/or other courses with more than 65 students.
2011-12 Winners
| NAME | DEPARTMENT | CATEGORY |
|---|---|---|
| Rajshree Agarwal | Management & Organization | Category 1 |
| Joe Bailey | Decision, Operations & Information Technologies | Category 1 |
| Scott Benjamin | Management & Organization | Category 2 |
| Eugene Cantor | Accounting & Information Assurance | Category 2 |
| Melissa Carrier | Management & Organization | Category 2 |
| Gilad Chen | Management & Organization | Category 3 |
| Wilbur Chung | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 1 |
| Gary Cohen | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 1 |
| Joseph Colantuoni | Finance | Category 2 |
| Nicole Coomber | Management & Organization | Category 2 |
| Cristian Dezso | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 3 |
| Stephanie Eckerd | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 1 |
| David Godes | Marketing | Category 3 |
| Curt Grimm | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 1 |
| Gerard Hoberg | Finance | Category 1 |
| Jian-Yu (Fisher) Ke | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 2 |
| Michael Kimbrough | Accounting & Information Assurance | Category 3 |
| Sarah Kroncke | Finance | Category 2 |
| Albert Kyle | Finance | Category 1 |
| Shreevardhan Lele | Decision, Operations & Information Technologies | Categories 1 & 3 |
| Charles Olson | Logistics, Business & Public Policy | Category 3 |
| Joseph Perfetti | Finance | Category 2 |
| Nagpurnanand Prabhala | Finance | Category 1 |
| Ariel Ramirez | Accounting & Information Assurance | Category 2 |
| Rebecca Ratner | Marketing | Category 1 |
| Joyce Russell | Management & Organization | Categories 1 & 3 |
| Myeong-Gu Seo | Management & Organization | Category 1 |
| Joydeep Srivastava | Marketing | Category 1 |
| Tunay Tunca | Decision, Operations & Information Technologies | Category 3 |
| Vijaya Venkataramani | Management & Organization | Category 1 |
| Yajun Wang | Finance | Category 1 |
| Michel Wedel | Marketing | Category 1 |
| Russell Wermers | Finance | Category 1 |
| Karen Wouters | Management & Organization | Category 1 |
| Jie Zhang | Marketing | Category 1 |
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