The latest honours and prizes

The joint Executive MBA offered by ETH Zurich and the University of St.Gallen, emba X, has received its first award for Innovation in Higher Education at MERIT Summit & Awards in Paris.

Stephan Wagner, Professor for Logistics Management at D-MTEC, has received one of the highest recognitions for empirical researchers in the field of operations and supply chain management: the Academy of Management OSCM Distinguished Scholar Award.

Dr Burcu Kucukkeles, Dr Shiko Ben-Menahem and Professor Georg von Krogh, all of D-MTEC, have been selected as Distinguished Winners of the 2021 AOM Award for Responsible Research in Management. The award is co-sponsored by the Fellows of the Academy of Management (AOM) and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management. The three researchers were honoured for their work examining the repurposing of existing drugs to treat rare diseases.

Dr Katharina Fellnhofer (D-MTEC) has been awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship, which is funded by the European Commission and hosted by ETH Zurich and Harvard University. Her fellowship research initiative “Roller-Coaster” investigates entrepreneurs’ and venture capitalists’ entrepreneurial intuition in the course of financial decision-making.

Professor Georg von Krogh (D-MTEC) has been named a Fellow of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). He received this prestigious honour in recognition of his contribution to management research and education in Europe, and as a sign of appreciation for his contributions to the EURAM community.

Dr Michael Siegenthaler, from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of ETH Zurich receives the 2017 SIAF Award. The labour market expert is being honoured for his outstanding dissertation on the subject of "The Swiss Labour Market".

Hans Gersbach (D-MTEC), Professor for Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy, has been awarded the 2017 «Wissenschaftspreis» of the city of Basel for his outstanding interdisciplinary work on topics of great relevance for society and economic policy.

Torbjørn Netland, Professor for Production and Operations Management (D-MTEC), receives the 2017 Shingo Research Award for the edited book «The Routledge Companion to Lean Management». He shares the prize with co-editor Dr Daryl J. Powell.