Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1987

FIRST PLACE

Team: Syntex Laboratories, Inc.
Paper: Sales Force Sizing and Deployment Using a Decision Calculus Model at Syntex Laboratories
Laureates: Ellen Curtis - Syntex Laboratories
Leonard Lodish - University of Pennsylvania
Michael Ness - Sola-Syntex Opthalmics
M. Kerry Simpson - Information Resources, Inc.

FINALISTS

Team: LTV Steel Company-Cleveland Works
Paper: A Scheduling Model for LTV Steel's Cleveland Works' Twin Strand Continuous Slab Caster
Laureates:

Richard Box - Philip Morris, USA

Donald Herbe - LTV Steel Company

Team: North American Van Lines
Paper: Maximizing Profits for North American Van Lines' Truckload Division: A New Framework for Pricing and Operations
Laureates: Susan Atherton - North American Van Lines
Kevin Butterbaugh - North American Van Lines
Kenneth Nickerson - Stanford University
Warren Powell - Princeton University
Yosef Sheffi - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Team: Office of Technology Assessment
Paper: N/A
Laureates: Jacob Ulvila - Decision Sciene Consortium, Inc.
Team: United States Army
Paper: The U.S. Army's Occupational Speciality Manpower Decision Support System
Laureates: Donald Chung - U.S. Army
Amir Elger - General Research Corporation
Jonathan Jacobs - General Research Corporation
James Selsor - ANSER, 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.

Edelman Award Videos

View the 2012, 2011, and 2010 Edelman Award presentations for outstanding examples of difference-making OR/MS and advanced analytics in practice in the INFORMS Video Learning Center.

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