Best Working Paper Award

2024 First Place

Winning material: Green E-commerce: Environmental Impact of Fast Delivery

Purpose of the Award

The goal of this Competition is to highlight the best working papers in the area of Behavioral Operations.

The awards will be given annually at the INFORMS Annual meeting and will recognize papers as follows:

  • First prize (recognized with a certificate or plaque, and a $500 prize)
  • Second prize (recognized with a certificate or plaque)
  • Honorable mention (recognized with a certificate or plaque)

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2024
First Place
Chenshan Hu, University of Washington St. Louis
Dennis Zhang, University of Washington St. Louis
Jiankun Sun, Imperial College
Xiaoyang Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Second Place
Jochen Schlapp, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Mirko Kremer, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Honorable Mention
Christopher Chen, Indiana University Bloomington
Elliot Rabinovich, Arizona State University
Fei Gao
Lina Wang, The Pennsylvania State University
Stanley Lim, Michigan State University
Vinit Tipnis, Indiana University Bloomington
2023
Winner(s)
Ignacio Rios, Stanford University
Pramit Ghosh, The University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-Up
Jordan Tong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kris Ferreira, Harvard
Maya Balakrishnan, Harvard Business School
Finalist
Daniel Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Gad Allon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Ken Moon, University of Pennsylvania
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Sandeep Chitla, New York University
Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
First Place
Jan Fransoo, Tilburg University
Rafael Escamilla, Kühne Logistics University
Sebastian Villa, University of New Mexico
Second Place
Laurens Debo, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Maria Ibanez, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
Sanjeev Malik, Northwestern University
Seyed Iravani , Northwestern University
Sina Ansari, Driehaus College of Business, DePaul University
Honorable Mention
Benjamin Knight, Instacart
Deena Costa, Yale School of Nursing
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Michael Sjoding, Medical School, University of Michigan
Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan
Zhaohui (Zoey) Jiang, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
 John Silberholz , University of Michigan 
2021
First Place
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
Second Place
Arturo Estrada Rodriguez, University College London
Dongyuan Zhan, University College London
Rouba Ibrahim, University College London
Honorable Mention
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Gloria Urrea , University of Colorado at Boulder
Hengchen Dai, University of California Los Angeles
Qiuping Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sebastian Villa, University of New Mexico
Xiaoyang Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yiming Zhang, University of Washington
Yong-Pin Zhou, University of Washington
Özalp Özer, Amazon
2020
First Place
Brett Hathaway, Johns Hopkins University
Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Maqbool Dada, Johns Hopkins University
Second Place
Jian-Qiang Hu, Fudan University
Kejia Hu, Vanderbilt University
Vishal Ahuja , Southern Methodist University
Zhenzhen Jia, Fudan University
Honorable Mention
Antonio Castellanos, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Clarke Rowan, Harvard University
Frank Hage, Technical University of Munich
Galit Yom-Tov, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ioana Popescu, INSEAD
Martin Grunow, Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Schiffels, Technical University of Munich
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Yair Goldberg, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
2019
First Place
Michelle Shell, Harvard Business School

Ryan Buell
Second Place
Kai Hoberg, Kühne Logistics University
Margarita Protopappa-Sieke, University of Cologne Germany
Michael Becker-Peth, RSM, Erasmus University
Third Place
Gad Allon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
2018
First Place
Andrew Davis, Cornell University
Kyle Hyndman, University of Texas-Dallas
Second Place
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Ignacio Rios, Stanford University
Ruthy Beer
Third Place
Daniel Feller
Jordan Tong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017
First Place
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Jun Li, University of Michigan
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
Second Place
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Sameer Hasija, INSEAD
Honorable Mention
Eric Grafstein, Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health
Eric Park, School of Business, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Mahesh Nagarajan, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Yichuan Ding, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
2016
Winner(s)
Javad Nasiry, INSEAD
Xiaoyang Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Yaozhong Wu
Second Place
Jingqi Wang
Yong-Pin Zhou, University of Washington
Honorable Mention
Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
William Lovejoy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
2015
Winner(s)
Elena Katok, University of Texas-Dallas
Ernan Haruvy
Valery Pavlov
Second Place
León Valdés
Tim Kraft, University of Virginia
Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Anita L. Tucker
David R. Vinson
Hummy Song
Karen L. Murrell
2014
Winner(s)
Lisa M. Scheele
Marco Slikker
Ulrich W. Thonemann
Runner-Up
Andrew Davis
Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
Honorable Mention
Atalay Atasu, INSEAD
Koert van Ittersum, University of Groningen
Vishal Agrawal , McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University