BOSTON—Two Harvard Business enterprise College (HBS) faculty members, Professor Michael Norton and Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks, have been awarded Wyss Awards for Excellence in Mentoring. Now in its 15th year, the Wyss Awards winners are selected by Doctoral students for their function in the Doctoral Applications.

On top of that, senior faculty member Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business enterprise Administration in the Technologies and Operations Management Unit, and junior faculty member Alexandra Feldberg, assistant professor in organization administration, have been chosen as the runners-up for the outstanding nominations they received.

The winners and runners-up had been chosen from a pool of a lot more than 23 faculty nominees. In maintaining with tradition, the major advisors of the choice committee chairs and award winners of the previous 5 years had been excluded from consideration.

Professor Michael Norton

Michael I. Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business enterprise Administration, a member of Harvard’s Behavioral Insights Group, and the head of the Negotiation, Organizations &amp Markets Unit. His analysis focuses on behavioral economics and nicely-becoming.

“I’ve worked with Mike on so quite a few projects that we’ve hit all stages of the analysis course of action. My preferred is brainstorming concepts with him,” a single student stated about Norton. “I’m most grateful for the time he’s prepared to commit with me to brainstorm research and he also pushes me to get inventive with strategies and concepts, which helped me down the path I am presently on.”

Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks

Alison Wood Brooks is the O’Brien Associate Professor of Business enterprise Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow I the Negotiation, Organizations &amp Markets Unit. Her analysis examines people’s conversational behavior and the psychology that underlies it.

“Working with Alison has been an absolute game-changer for me. From the moment I started my doctoral plan, she place me on projects that had a higher possibility of becoming published, making sure that I would be competitive in the crazy academic job industry,” a single student commented. “She supported my original concepts, which includes consulting me on my solo-authored projects. Alison supplied me with the sources and guidance I necessary from day a single.”

The Wyss Awards are named in honor of Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA 1965) who, in 2004, established the Hansjoerg Wyss Endowment for Doctoral Education. The Wyss Endowment supports a broad variety of efforts to strengthen the HBS Doctoral Applications, which includes fellowships and stipends for doctoral students, elevated assistance for field analysis, new doctoral course improvement, teaching expertise education, and the renovation of doctoral facilities on campus.