Student Paper Competition
2011 First Place:
Jun Li,
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Winning material:
“Are Consumers Strategic? Structural Estimation from The Air-Travel Industry”
Purpose of the Award
The INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) announces the Student Paper Competition. Two awards are given annually for papers judged to be the best in the field of Operations Management.
The first prize is accompanied by a $500 honorarium. The second prize is accompanied by a $300 honorarium. Prizes will be awarded at the Fall INFORMS meeting. In addition, all finalists will be awarded $100. The number of finalists will depend on the number of entries. Typically there are five or six finalists.
Finalists will be invited to submit abstracts of their paper for publication in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. (Under INFORMS policy, the publication of such abstracts in no way conflicts with submission of the full manuscript for review to any INFORMS or other journal for publication.)
Past Awardees
| 2011 | First Place Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Second Place Turgay Ayer, University of Wisconsin, Madison | |
| Finalist Robert L. Bray, Stanford University | |
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Kenan Arifoglu,
Northwestern University |
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| Morvarid Rahmani, Anderson School of Management, UCLA | |
| Sam Aflaki, INSEAD | |
| 2010 | First Place Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Second Place Mazhar Arikan, Purdue University | |
| Finalist Anicham Kumarasamy, Stanford University Jose Guajardo, University of Pennsylvania Sripad Devalkar, University of Michigan Sam Aflaki, INSEAD | |
| 2009 | First Place Denis Saure, Columbia University |
| Second Place Mehmet Begen, University of British Columbia | |
| Finalist Onesun Yoo, UCLA | |
| Ying Rong, Lehigh University | |
| Biyu He, Stanford University | |
| Ali Ekici, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| 2008 | First Place Jagpreet Chhatwal, Merck Research Laboratories |
| Second Place Guoming Lai, Carnegie Mellon University | |
| 2007 | First Place Tong Wang, INSEAD |
| Second Place Soo-Haeng Cho, UCLA | |
| Honorable Mention Gongtao (Lucy) Chen, National University of Singapore | |
| Richard Lai, Harvard Business School | |
| Pamela Pen-Erh Pei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Shanshan Hu, University of Michigan Ross School of Business | |
| 2006 | First Place Itay Gurvick, Columbia Business School |
| Second Place Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Sarang Deo, UCLA -- Anderson School of Management | |
| Honorable Mention Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| Sang-Hyun Kim, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Chris P. Lee, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2005 | First Place Owen Wu, University of British Columbia |
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Second Place
Guillaume Roels,
UCLA Anderson School of Management |
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| Ping Josephine Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Honorable Mention Richard Lai, Harvard University | |
| Qian Liu, Columbia University | |
| Gigi Yuen, Northwestern University | |
| 2004 | First Place Retsef Levi, Cornell University Martin Pal, Cornell University |
| Second Place Ravi Subramanian, University of Michigan (with Sudheer Gupta and Brian Talbot) | |
| Finalist Gad Allon, Northwestern University | |
| Felipe Caro, UCLA | |
| Holly Lutze, University of Texas | |
| Honorable Mention Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan | |
| 2003 | First Place Amar Sapra, Cornell University |
| Second Place Jiri Chod, University of Rochester | |
| Honorable Mention Aydin Alptekinoglu, UCLA | |
| Li Chen, Stanford University | |
| Gurhan Kok, Duke University | |
| Victor Martinez de Albeniz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| 2002 | First Place Xinxin Hu, University of Michigan |
| Second Place Xin Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Woonghee Tim Huh, Cornell University | |
| Finalist Natalia Golovachkina, Cornell University | |
| Justin Ren, Boston University | |
| Jinxin Yi, CMU | |
| 2001 | First Place Kevin H. Shang, University of California, Irvine |
| Second Place Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University | |
| Rene Caldentey, New York University | |
| 2000 | First Place Jeremie Gallien, MIT |
| Second Place Serguei Netessine, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Finalist Michael Fry, University of Michigan Maher Lahmar, University of Minnesota Sergie Savin, Columbia University | |
| 1999 | First Place L. Beril Toktay, MIT |
| Second Place Prashant Fuloria, Stanford University | |
| Itir Karaesmen, Columbia University | |
| Honorable Mention Apurva Jain, Purdue University | |
| James Treharne, Auburn University | |
| 1998 | First Place Xiaomei Ding, University of British Columbia |
| Second Place Jeremie Gallien, MIT | |
| Honorable Mention Carolos Bispo, Carnegie Mellon University John Hollywood, MIT | |
| 1997 | First Place Daniel Adelman, University of Chicago |
| Second Place Roman Kapuscinski, University of Michigan Ross School of Business | |
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Honorable Mention
Scott Carr,
University of California-Los Angeles Kaan Katircioglu |
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| Kaan Katircioglu | |
| 1996 | First Place Stefanos A. Zenios, Stanford University |
| Second Place Siddharth Mahajan | |
| Finalist Philip Kaminsky Anand Iyer Srinagesh Gavirneni |
