Awards and Honors

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The New (Ab)Normal was selected by Inbound Logistics as one of their highlighed supply chain books.  

The New (Ab)Normal was selected as the 2020 BIBA® Non-Fiction: Business/Global Economics Winner!

The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, 2015), was selected by Strategy + Business Magazine as the Best Business Book on Strategy in 2016.

"Most corporate managers and business school professors simply accept globalization as an unalloyed good. After all, if your goal is to sell more of something, more potential customers must be better than fewer. But although globalization does hold out the promise of boosting revenues, cutting costs, or both, it also exposes companies to all manner of new risks. Yossi Sheffi’s The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, 2015), our choice for the best business book on strategy this year, does an excellent job of covering the most important of those risks as well as best practices in everything from preparation to monitoring to drawing up crisis playbooks. 

And it does so while focusing on a relatively obscure corporate competence: supply chains. An entire book on supply chains would seem to be a slog and particularly narrow. 

But The Power of Resilience is actually a bit of a page turner, with implications that go beyond tactics to strategy. Sheffi delivers exactly what his subtitle promises. He makes a compelling argument in support of proactive moves designed to enhance redundancy and flexibility, while swatting away superficial conclusions such as the idea that supply chain resiliency is an expensive option that pays off only in a disaster." 

—Adapted from “Planning for Unpredictability,” by Duff McDonal

Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, 2012), was named an Honorable Mention in the Business, Finance & Management category at the 37th Annual PROSE Awards — the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.

The 37th Annual PROSE Awards were presented at the Association of American Publishers' Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Conference in Washington. The PROSE Awards honor the best in professional and scholarly publishing, as judged by peer publishers, librarians and academics. This 37th annual competition attracted 518 entries of books, reference works, journals and electronic products in more than 40 categories.

The Whitman School of Management's Franklin Supply Chain Management Advisory Board selected Professor Yossi Sheffi to receive the Salzberg Lifetime Award in 2011.

The Salzberg Medallion has come to be recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the field of transportation and supply chain management. Sheffi was selected because of his lifetime achievements in the field of logistics and supply chain management.

As a respected scholar, educator, innovator, and entrepreneur his contributions have made and will have a lasting legacy in supply chain management. 

At the Harry E. Salzberg Memorial program on Thursday, October 6, 2011, Prof. Sheffi delivered an acceptance speech titled, "Risk and Resilience - a Look into the Future". 

Congratulations letter from MIT President Susan Hockfield.

Original award letter from Dean Melvin Stith of the Whiteman School of Management at Syracuse Univeristy 

Following 18 months of deliberations by faculty of the University of Zaragoza—with testimonies from the University's Research Institute, the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), the Department of Design and Manufacturing Engineering, the University of Zaragoza Doctoral Committee, and the Advisory Board—the Rector of the University of Zaragoza announced on October 27, 2010 that the University was to award the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to Professor Yossi Sheffi.

 The ceremony took place on February 11, 2011 at the University of Zaragoza's Paraninfo Building, where all major formal ceremonies involving the Government of Aragon and the University of Zaragoza take place.

Professor Sheffi's Doctor Honoris Causa speech.

Original award letter.

The Aragón International Prize, one of the most prestigious awards granted annually by the Government of Aragón in Spain, was created to recognize ongoing efforts in culture, science, technology, or human values that provide significant benefit for the community or a noteworthy example for the Aragónese society. 

Professor Yossi Sheffi accepted the award on behalf of MIT for his instrumental role in the development of the Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC). 

In 2003, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (CTL), led by Professor Sheffi, partnered with the Government of Aragón to create the ZLC, a world-class research institute associated with the University of Zaragoza, specializing in research and graduate studies in logistics and supply chain management. Since then, faculty and students at both CTL and ZLC have worked together to create new processes, concepts, and technologies while developing the future leaders for global supply chains.

Letter from Manuel J. López Pérez - University of Zaragoza Rector

The Eccles Medal was established in honor of the late Admiral Henry Eccles, one of the most highly respected logisticians of the 20th Century. 

SOLE - The International Society of Logistics presents this award to recognize outstanding achievements in the development of logistics education. Professor Sheffi received the Eccles medal at the annual SOLE conference in Orlando, FL, where he also gave the keynote address.

Professor Sheffi was awarded one of Spain's top honors in the area of logistics - the PLAZA 2006 Award - presented by the Government of Aragón, in Spain.  

The President of Aragon Marcelino Iglesias Ricou presented the award to Dr. Sheffi at a special ceremony held in Zaragoza, Spain on October 5, 2006.

A jury of librarians, booksellers and reviewers named Professor Sheffi's book The Resilient Enterprise (MIT Press) ForeWord Magazine's 2005 Book of the Year in the category of Business and Economics.

Financial Times reporter James Pickford names The Resilient Enterprise one of the best business books of 2005—in a list meant to help holiday shoppers pick out the perfect gift for the business-minded.

The Accenture Prize is given annually to the best paper published in the International Journal of logistics Management. It is based on the recommendation of other authors and the journal's editorial board.

The winning paper was Supply Chain Management Under the Threat of International Terrorism, by Professor Yossi Sheffi. 

It was published in the International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp 1 - 11, 2002. It was also reprinted in the Defense Transportation Journal, October 2002, pp 11-18.

The Distinguished Service Award (DSA) is the highest honor that the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals bestows on an individual. It is given to a person who has made significant, career-long contributions to the logistics profession.

The Anderson Prize is given annually to the best paper published in the International Journal of logistics Management. It is based on the recommendation of other authors and the journal's editorial board.

The winning paper was A Review and Evaluation of Logistics Metrics, by Chris Caplice and Yossi Sheffi. It was published in the International Journal of Logistics Management, 5(2):11-28, 1994.

The E. Grosevenor Plowman Prize is awarded annually at the Educators' Conference, which takes place in conjunction with the annual conference of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP). 

From among those papers accepted for presentation at the educators' conference, the best research is selected by the Editorial Review Panel to be presented with the distinguished E. Grosvenor Plowman Award.

The winning paper was Shipper/Carrier Interaction in the Transportation Market: An Analytical Framework, by Yossi Sheffi. It was presented during the Educators Conference preceding annual CSCMP meeting in St. Louis, MO, on October 1985. It was published in the Journal of Business Logistics, 7(1):1-27, March 1986.

The Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research and management science is given once a year. The purpose of the Franz Edelman competition is to call out, recognize and reward outstanding examples of management science and operations research practice.

The honorary mention was given for the paper Maximizing Profits for Truckload Carriers: A New Framework for Pricing and Operations, by Warren Powell, Yossi Sheffi, Ken Nickerson, Kevin Butterbaugh and Susan Atherton. It was published in Interfaces, 18(1):21-42, January-February 1988.

The best teacher award is given annually to the faculty member in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who is recognized by the faulty and students as an outstanding teacher. The award is given at a department-wide faculty dinner at the beginning of every academic year.