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Diploma Ceremonies Convey 2012 Awards for Graduating Ph.D., MBA, and Undergraduate Business Administration and Economics Students
Contact: Mark D. Burd 412-268-3486
Release Date: May 21, 2012
PITTSBURGH -- Commencement and diploma ceremonies held by Carnegie Mellon University and the Tepper School of Business provides ideal venues for the recognition of 2012 graduates and student honorees. The following list contains awards and student recipients among graduating Ph. D. students, MBAs, and undergraduate business administration and economics.
Ph. D. AWARDS
-The 2012 Herbert A. Simon Doctoral Dissertation Award in Behavioral Research in the Administrative Sciences
Winner: Uriel Haran
Dissertation Title: Subjective Probability Interval Estimates: A Simple and
Effective Way to Reduce Overprecision in Judgment
-The 2012 William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management or Management Science
Winner: Amin Sayedi
Dissertation Title: Essays on Sponsored Search Advertising
-The 2012 William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management or Management Science
Winner: G. Matthew Snodgrass
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Criminality and the Effect of Incarceration
-The 2012 Gerald L. Thompson Doctoral Dissertation Award in Management Science
Winner: Emre Nadar
Dissertation Title: New Markov Decision Process Formulations and Optimal
Policy Structure Assemble-to-Order and New Product
Development Problems
MBA STUDENT AWARDS
-Elliott Dunlap Smith Award
Winner: Christoph Schrey
-Robert Sullivan Distinguished Community Service Award
Winner: Kate Kastenbaum
-Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Winner: Andrew Estel
-Distinguished Service to the Tepper School of Business Award (31)
Winners: Tavishi Agrawala Lauren Meehan
Aaron Attermann Jenny Minott
Babak Bafandeh Michael Morgan
Rohan Balakrishnan Vinod Muniswamy
Ocean Dalton Shih-Wei Edward Ni
Brooks Gagstetter Madhurya Prakash
Christopher Gassman Safwan Samla
Jay Haugen Stephanie Shapiro
Hiroshi Higuchi Cristin Smith
Margaret Hodes Aubrey Smith
Christopher Ito James Solier
William J. Johnson Daisuke Tanaka
Kate Kastenbaum Chad Taylor
Courtney Keene Joseph Thaman
Manuel Laura Lapoint Mfoniso Umoh
Megan McGrath
-Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (15)
Winners: Srinivas Annadanam
Edward Brinkman
Arie Dekker
Jean El Gemayel
Arun Gupta
Matthew Jacobs
Jeffrey Mataya
Megan McGrath
Darren T. Olson
Chinmay Parikh
Alan Pruce
James Solier
Brian Vogt
Danielle White
Matthew White
UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AWARDS
-Outstanding Student Award
Winner: Cindy X. Wang
-Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (2)
Winners: Michael Chang
Alexander M. Nigra
-Distinguished Service Award
Winner: Amy Kao
UNDERGRADUATE ECONOMICS AWARDS
-Outstanding Student Award
Winners: Blake Artushin
Courtney Chin
-Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Winner: Ashish Thakrar
-Distinguished Service Award
Winner: Abbas Zaidi
-Best Senior Honors Thesis
Winner: Yaqi Niu
Thesis Title: The Determinants of Self-Employment in Mexico and Household Transitions Between 2002 and 2005
-Best Senior Project ( 6 )
Winners: Prabhvir Anand,
Claire Chin
Shomik Ghosh
Benjamin Gorman
Jennifer Sung
Steven Yang
Title: Drowning in Economic Sorrow: The Effect of Business Cycles and State Monopolies on Alcohol Consumption
About the Tepper School of Business - Founded in 1949, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (www.tepper.cmu.edu) is a pioneer in the field of management science and analytical-decision making. The school’s notable contributions to the intellectual community include eight Nobel laureates. The school is among those institutions with the highest rate of academic citations in the fields of finance, operations research, organizational behavior and production/operations. The academic offerings of the Tepper School include undergraduate studies in business and economics, graduate studies in business administration and financial engineering, and doctoral studies.
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