Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1996
FIRST PLACE
| Team: | South African National Defense Force |
| Paper: | Guns or butter: Decision Support for Determining the Size and Shape of the South African National Defense Force |
| Laureates: |
Sally Botha - Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Ivan Gryffenberg - South African Defense Headquarters Rauten Hofmeyer - Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Jean Lausberg - South African Defense Headquarters Ruppert Nicolay - Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group Willem Smit - South African Defense Headquarters Stefanus Uys - South African Defense Headquarters Willie van der Merwe - Deloitee & Touche Consulting Group Gysbert J. Wessels - Deloitte and Touche Consulting Group |
FINALISTS
| Team: | AT&T Capital |
| Paper: | Automating Credit and Collections Decisions at AT&T Capital Corporation |
| Laureates: |
George Curnow - AT&T Capital Corporation Gary Kochman - AT&T Laboratories Steven Meester - AT&T Laboratories Dabashish Sarkar - AT&T Laboratories Keith Wilton - AT&T Capital Leasing Services |
| Team: | British National Health Services |
| Paper: | A New Formula for Distributing Hospital Funds in England |
| Laureates: |
Roy Car-Hill - University of York Geoffrey Hardman - University of York Stuart Peacock - Monash University Stephen Martin - University of York Trevor Shelton - University of York Peter Smith - University of York |
| Team: | Federal Highway Administration |
| Paper: | Pontis: A System for Maintenance Optimization and Improvement of U.S. Bridge Networks |
| Laureates: |
Kamal Golabi - Optima, Inc. Richard Shepard - Department of Transportation, State of California |
| Team: | National Car Rental Sysem |
| Paper: | Revenue management saves National Car Rental |
| Laureates: |
M.K. Geraghty - National Car Rental Earnest Johnson - National Car Rental |
| Team: | Procter & Gamble Co. |
| Paper: | Blending OR/MS, Judgement, and GIS: Restructuring P&G's Supply Chain |
| Laureates: |
Jeffrey Camm - University of Cincinnati Thomas Chorman - Procter & Gamble Co. Franz Dill - Procter & Gamble Co. James Evans - University of Cincinnati Dennis Sweeney - University of Cincinnati Glenn Wegryn - Procter & Gamble Co. |
| Team: | The Finance Ministry of Kuwait |
| Paper: | A Solution to Post Crash Debt Entanglements in Kuwait's al-Manakh Stock Market |
| Laureates: |
A.A. Eliman - San Francisco State University Maurice Gripis - LTC Techno-Economics Research Group, Inc. S. Kotob - Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research |