TORONTO, January 31, 2001 -- A prestigious professor of operations management and an assistant professor of finance are the winners of the Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching at the Rotman School of Management.

Oded Berman, professor of operations management, receives the Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Research. During his career Prof. Berman has published more than 110 refereed articles and has contributed to several books in his field. He is an Associate Editor of the journals Management Science, Operations Research and Transportation Science and a member of the editorial board of Computers and Operations Research and the Journal of Service Research. His main research interests include: operations management in the service industry, logistics and software reliability. He has served as Associate Dean, Programs at the Rotman School. Prof. Berman received his PhD in 1978 from MIT and has been at the University of Toronto since 1990.

Alexandra MacKay, assistant professor of finance, receives the Roger Martin and Nancy Lang Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prof. MacKay has taught finance courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels including courses on financial engineering in the Rotman MBA program consistently winning praise from both colleagues and students for her leadership in the classroom. Her research interests include fixed income markets, term structure estimation, imbedded options, pension funds and accounting for derivatives. Recent work by Prof. MacKay has been published or is under review at several major finance academic journals including the Canadian Investment Review, the European Finance Review, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She joined the University of Toronto in 1996.

The awards were established in 1999 by a generous donation to the Rotman School by Dean Roger Martin and his wife, Nancy Lang. The purpose of the awards is to recognize and encourage the research and teaching activities of faculty members at the Rotman School.

Recently ranked by Business Week in the top tier of business schools in the world, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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