Faculty Awards

2025

  • Hummy Song - 1st Place, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Competition, 2025

2023

  • Hummy Song - 2nd Place, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, 2023
  • Hummy Song - Finalist, INFORMS Health Applications Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2023

2022

2021

  • Doug Present - MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020-2021

2019

  • Hummy Song - Finalist, Best OM Paper in Management Science Award, 2019
  • Doug Present - MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, 2018-2019

2018

  • Hummy Song - “Goes Above and Beyond the Call of Duty” MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award, 2018
  • Guy David - Wharton School Excellence-in-Teaching Award for the Undergraduate Division, 2018
  • Hummy Song - 1st Place, M&SOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award, 2018
  • Guy David - Wharton School Teaching Excellence Award, 2018

2017

  • Guy David - Wharton School Teaching Commitment and Curricular Innovation Award for the MBA Division, 2017

2016

  • Kevin Volpp - Article-of-the-Year Award, “Effect of Financial Incentives on Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels”, Academy Heath Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016 Description

2015

  • Hummy Song - Finalist, MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2015
  • Hummy Song - Joan P. Curhan Citizenship Award, 2015
  • Hummy Song - Honorable Mention, INFORMS Behavioral Operations Management Section Best Working Paper Award, 2015
  • Doug Present - MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014-2015
  • Hummy Song - 2nd Place, AOM Annual Meeting Health Care Management Division Best Paper Award, 2015
  • Hummy Song - Finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Competition, 2015
  • Hummy Song - 1st Place, INFORMS Health Applications Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2015

2014

  • Hummy Song - 1st Place, AcademyHealth Organizational Behavior and Management Division Best Abstract Award, 2014
  • Guy David - Wharton School Excellence-in-Teaching Award for the Undergraduate Division, 2014
  • Doug Present - MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013-2014
  • Hummy Song - Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2014

2013

  • Jeffrey H. Silber - Nancy Abramson Wolfson Endowed Chair of Health Services Research, 2013
  • Doug Present - MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2012-2013
  • Hummy Song - Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2013
  • John C. Hershey - Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2012-2013

2012

  • Kevin Volpp - Philadelphia Business Journal Innovation Award, 2012
  • Kevin Volpp - Elected to Association of American Physicians (AAP), 2012
  • Kevin Volpp - Elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (IOM), 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly - Victor R, Fuchs Lifetime Achievement Award from ASHEcon, 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly - University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, 2011-2012
  • John Whitman - MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011-2012
  • Doug Present - MBA: Excellence in Teaching Award, 2011-2012
  • Patricia M. Danzon - Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award, 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly - William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research from the Baxter International Foundation and the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, 2012
  • Mark V. Pauly - President of the American Society of Health Economics, 2012

2011

2010

  • Hummy Song - Harvard University Derek Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2010
  • Kevin Volpp - Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Research Paper of the Year for Volpp KG, Troxel AB, Pauly MV, et al. New England Journal of Medicine; 2009; 360:699-709, 2010
  • Kevin Volpp - British Medical Journal Group Awards for “Translating Research into Practice” for work on Financial Incentives and Smoking Cessation implemented by General Electric nationally for 152,000 employees January, 2010
  • John C. Hershey - Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2010

2009

  • Kevin Volpp - Time Magazine Most Significant Advances in Health 2009 A-Z. Work descibed under “I” for “Incentives”, 2009

2008

  • Hummy Song - Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis, 2008
  • Kevin Volpp - Elected to American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), 2008

2007

  • Jeffrey H. Silber - AcademyHealth Abstract-of-the-Year, 2007
  • John C. Hershey - Named one of top 50 management science professors (in 225 American Business Schools), 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly - National Institute of Health Care Management Foundation’s Research Award (with M. Kate Bundorf) for “Is Health Insurance Affordable for the Uninsured?” (Journal of Health Economics 2006), 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly - Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, 2007
  • Mark V. Pauly - John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, 2007
  • Kevin Volpp - Best Paper Award – AcademyHealth Annual R esearch Meeting (with A Rosen, P Romano, P Rosenbaum, J Silber) – “Impact of ACGME Duty Hours on Mortality Among Patients in VA Hospitals” – one of three highest rated abstracts our of about 1700 submitted., 2007
  • Kevin Volpp - Alice S. Hersh New Investigator Award, AcademyHealth, for “exceptional promise for future contributions to health services research”, 2007

2006

  • Mark V. Pauly - Spencer Kimball Article Award (with Howard Kunreuther) from the Journal of Insurance Regulation for, 2006
  • Kevin Volpp - John Thompson Award from Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) for outstanding accomplishments in health services research as a junior investigator, 2006
  • Kevin Volpp - Society of General Internal Medicine Outstanding Junior Investigator Award, 2006

2005

  • John C. Hershey - Named a “Favorite Course” by MBA Program for Executives, 2005
  • Kevin Volpp - Presidential Award for Early Career Scientistis and Engineers (PECASE) – recognized at White House by President Bush with highest honor given by US government for early career scientists, 2005

2004

  • John C. Hershey - Core Teaching Award for MBA Program for Executives, 2004

2003

  • Jeffrey H. Silber - AcademyHealth (formerly Association for Health Services Research) Article-of-the-Year, 2003
  • Jeffrey H. Silber - The Hummeler Research Prize (Article-of-the-Year), Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute, 2003
  • John C. Hershey - Distinguished Lifetime Service Award, Society for Medical Decision Making, 2003

2001

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 2001

2000

1999

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1999
  • John C. Hershey - Telecon Award for Best Continuing Education Program, awarded for Wharton’s Program in Building a Business Case, 1999
  • John C. Hershey - Best Paper Award, Journal of Risk and Insurance, 1999

1998

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1998

1997

1995

  • Patricia M. Danzon - American Risk and Insurance Association, Award for Outstanding Article, for “Alternative Liability Regimes for Medical Injuries: Evidence from Simulation Analysis,” August, 1995

1992

1991

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1991

1990

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Awrd, The Wharton School, 1990
  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1990

1989

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989
  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Core Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1989

1988

  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Excellence in Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988
  • John C. Hershey - Graduate Division Class of 1984 Teaching Award, The Wharton School, 1988

1987

  • Patricia M. Danzon - American Risk and Insurance Association, Elizur Wright Award, for Medical Malpractice: Theory, Evidence and Public Policy, June, 1987
  • Patricia M. Danzon - American Association of Risk and Insurance, Award for Outstanding Article, for “Compensation for Occupational Disease: Evaluating the Options,” Journal of Risk and Insurance, June, 1987
  • John C. Hershey - Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award for Teaching Excellence, The Wharton School, 1987

1973

  • John C. Hershey - Award winner, “Society for Management Information Systems” Awards Paper Competition, 1973

1970

  • Kevin Volpp - Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Distinguished Investigator Award for Translation from Clinical Use into Public Benefit and Policy. “Award for Career Achievement and Contribution to Clinical and Translational Science”, 1970
  • Kevin Volpp - World Economic Forum – chosen to serve on Global Advisory Council on Behavior, 1970
  • Kevin Volpp - Matilda White Riley Award For Contributions to Social and Behavioral Science, 20th anniversary of the Office of Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, NIH, 1970

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