2025 First Place
- Blair Flicker, University of South Carolina
- Charlie Hannigan,
University of Southern California
Winning material:
How a Study of Wait Utility Became a Study of Presentation Format: People Chose Queues Over Clocks, 80–20
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
2025
First Place
Blair Flicker,
University of South Carolina
Charlie Hannigan,
University of Southern California
Second Place
Tracy Jenkin ,
Queen's University
Xiao Lei ,
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
Meena Andiappan,
McMaster University
Jiacheng Chang,
University of Hong Kong
Yang Chen,
Western University
Samuel Kirshner,
University of New South Wales
Anton Ovchinnikov,
Queen's University
Feng Tian,
University of Hong Kong
Honorable Mention
Shenyang Jiang ,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Bradley R. Staats,
University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill
Yuqian Xu,
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill
Zhanzhi Zheng,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill