Tepper School Honors Exceptional Doctoral Students at 2025 Awards Ceremony

Each year, the Tepper School of Business recognizes the achievements of its doctoral students whose work reflects the rigor and innovation at the core of the school’s mission. At this year’s Ph.D. Awards Ceremony — held in the PNC Rooms of the Tepper Building — top honors were awarded across disciplines for research that is shaping the frontiers of knowledge.

Egon Balas Award for Best Student Paper in Operations Research/ACO

Sebastián Vásquez Llorente was selected for his paper, “Mixed-Integer Bilevel Programs with Multiple Noncooperative Followers.” Established in 2004, the award honors the legacy of Egon Balas (1922–2019), a trailblazer in operations research and long-time faculty member at the Tepper School from 1967–2019 holding the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research chair.

Award Committee: Karan Singh (Chair), Emily Diana

Dipankar and Sharmila Chakravarti Doctoral Fellowship Award in Recognition of Outstanding Contributions to Research to Marketing

Liying Qiu was recognized for outstanding contributions to research in marketing. The award, established in 2014, is endowed by Tepper School Ph.D. alumnus Dipankar Chakravarti (Ph.D. ’79) and Sharmila Chakravarti.

Award Committee: Tim Derdenger (Chair), Alan Montgomery

Paul S. Goodman Doctoral Dissertation Award

Jenny Oh received the Goodman Award, which honors excellence in organizational behavior and theory. Established in 2016, the award commemorates Paul S. Goodman (1937–2012), a scholar, author, and filmmaker who held the Richard M. Cyert Professorship of Organizational Psychology at the Tepper School.

Award Committee: Denise Rousseau (Chair), Gerard Beenen, Rangaraj Ramanujam

Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory

Nicholas C. Hoffman was honored with this prestigious award, established in 1954 in memory of Alexander Henderson. The fellowship recognizes exceptional research in economic theory. Four past recipients of this award have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Award Committee: Stephen Spear, Laurence Ales, Ali Shourideh, Ariel Zetlin-Jones