{"id":30275,"date":"2022-03-16T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=30275"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:41:59","slug":"professor-profiles-robert-pindyck-mit-sloan-school-of-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/professor-profiles-robert-pindyck-mit-sloan-school-of-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Profiles: Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School of Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Robert-Pindyck-MIT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-18470 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Robert-Pindyck-MIT-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Profiles: Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School of Management - mbaMission\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Robert-Pindyck-MIT-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Robert-Pindyck-MIT.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we profile\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitsloan.mit.edu\/faculty\/detail.php?in_spseqno=41022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Robert Pindyck<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0from the MIT Sloan School of Management.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRobert Pindyck<\/strong>, who is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics and a professor of applied economics at MIT Sloan, has won multiple teaching awards going back more than 25 years, including an MIT Sloan Outstanding Teaching Award, the MIT Sloan Excellence in Teaching Award, and the school\u2019s Teacher of the Year Award. More recently, Pindyck and a fellow faculty member received the 2018 Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching, described on the MIT Sloan site as \u201cthe most prestigious teaching prize offered by the School.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students and alumni with whom we spoke made note of Pindyck\u2019s intense passion, which inspires his students to involve themselves ever more deeply into the material they are studying. A Sloan graduate described Pindyck\u2019s \u201ctremendous authority,\u201d which the professor balanced with \u201cimmense accessibility,\u201d and a second-year teaching assistant in Pindyck\u2019s \u201cIndustrial Economics [for Strategic Decisions]\u201d course once noted in an MIT Sloan Students Speak blog post that working with him was \u201ca great learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the MIT Sloan School of Management and 16 other top-ranked MBA schools, check out our free\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.mbamission.com\/collections\/insider-s-guides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>mbaMission Insider\u2019s Guides<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we profile\u00a0Robert Pindyck\u00a0from the MIT Sloan School of Management. 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