Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 2007

FIRST PLACE

Team: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Paper: Operations Research Advances Cancer Therapeutics
Laureates: Eva Lee - Georgia Institute of Technology
Marco Zaider - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

FINALISTS

Team: Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Paper: Optimizing Distribution at Coca-Cola Enterprises
Laureates: Corne Aantjes - ORTEC
Tim Hyatt - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Michael Jacks - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Goos Kant - Tillsburg University
Team: DaimlerChrysler (Daimler AG) & J.D. Power and Associates
Paper: PIN Incentive Planning System: A Decision Support System for Planning Automobile........
Laureates: Deirdre Borrego - J.D. Power and Associates
Irina Ionova - J.D. Power and Associates
Alexei Khavaev - J.D. Power and Associates
William Shearin - Daimler Chrysler Corporation (Daimler AG)
Jorge Silva-Risso - University of California at Riverside
Team: Hewlett-Packard Company
Paper: Procurement Risk Management (PRM) at Hewlett-Packard Company
Laureates: Dwight Branvold - Hewlett-Packard Company
Matt Gaskins - Hewlett-Packard Company
Jerry Hwang - Hewlett-Packard Company
Patty Mackenroth - Hewlett-Packard Company
Venu Nagali - Hewlett-Packard Company
Mark Pridgen - Hewlett-Packard Company
David Sanghera - Hewlett-Packard Company
Patrick Scholler - Hewlett-Packard Company
Greg Shoemaker - Hewlett-Packard Company
Tim Thurston - Hewlett-Packard Company
Team: United States Coast Guard
Paper: Operations Research Enhanced SCM at the Aircraft Repair and Supply Center at U.S. Coast Guard
Laureates: Vinayak Deshpande - Purdue University
Kent Everingham - United States Coast Guard
Gary Polaski - United States Coast Guard
Frederick Riedlin - United States Coast Guard
Michael Shirk - United States Coast Guard

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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