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 operate in the Doctoral Applications.

Moreover, 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 small business 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 investigation focuses on behavioral economics and effectively-becoming.

“I’ve worked with Mike on so numerous projects that we’ve hit all stages of the investigation procedure. My preferred is brainstorming concepts with him,” one particular student mentioned 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 solutions and concepts, which helped me down the path I am at the moment 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 investigation 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 system, she place me on projects that had a higher opportunity of becoming published, making certain that I would be competitive in the crazy academic job marketplace,” one particular student commented. “She supported my original concepts, like consulting me on my solo-authored projects. Alison offered me with the sources and guidance I required from day one particular.”

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, like fellowships and stipends for doctoral students, enhanced assistance for field investigation, new doctoral course improvement, teaching capabilities education, and the renovation of doctoral facilities on campus.