Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1986

FIRST PLACE

Team: CITGO
Paper: The Successful Deployment of Management Science Throughout Citgo Petroleum Corporaton
Laureates: Bell Beckert
Jim Keyes
Darwin Klingman - University of Texas at Austin
Nancy Phillips - University of Texas at Austin
David Steiger - D.S.I. Consulting
Warren Young - CITGO

FINALISTS

Team: Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Paper: PLANTES: A Modeling System for Business Planning
Laureates: Robert Breitman - Electronic Data Systems Corporation
John Lucas - Electronic Data Systems Corporation
Team: General Motors Corporaton
Paper: Reducing Logistics Costs at General Motors
Laureates: Dennis Blumenfield - General Motors
Lawrence Burns - General Motors
Carlos Daganzo - University of California at Berkeley
Michael Frick - General Motors
Randolph Hall - University of California at Berkeley
Team: George Darling & Associates
Paper: N/A
Laureates: John Lastavica
Team: Homart Development Company
Paper: Asset Divesture at Homart Developing Company
Laureates: James Beam - University of Michigan
Charles Noon - University of Michigan
Gary Salton - Homart Development Company
Team: Mobil Oil Corporation
Paper: Real-Time, Wide Area Dispatch of Mobil Tank Trucks
Laureates: Gerald Brown - Naval Postgraduate School
Carol Ellis - Mobil Oil Corporation
Glen Graves - UCLA
David Ronen - Naval Postgraduate School
Team: SANTOS Limited of Australia
Paper: Optimizing SANTOS's Gas Production and Processing Operations In Central Australia Using the Decomposition Method
Laureates: Dennis Dare - SANTOS Ltd.
Elmer Dougherty - University of Southern California
P.A. Hutchinson - SANTOS Ltd.
Enrico Lombardino - MARACO, Inc.

Interfaces Edelman Award Special Issue

Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interfaces features the Edelman papers! Read these inspiring examples of major difference-making O.R. projects.

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