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Best Working Paper Award

2022 First Place

Winning material: Supplying Cash-Constrained Retailers: Understanding Shopkeeper Behavior at the Bottom of the Pyramid

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

View information about eligibility, procedures and deadlines
Click here for more information

Past Awardees

2022 First Place
Sebastian Villa, Indiana University
 Rafael Escamilla, Kühne Logistics University
 Jan Fransoo, Tilburg University
2022 Second Place
Laurens Debo, Carnegie Mellon University Maria Ibanez, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
2022 Honorable Mention
Dmitry Mitrofanov, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
 Benjamin Knight, Instacart
Zhaohui (Zoey) Jiang, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
  John Silberholz , University of Michigan 
 Yixin Iris Wang, University of Michigan
 Deena Costa, Yale School of Nursing Michael Sjoding, Medical School, University of Michigan
2021 First Place
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
 Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
2021 Second Place
Arturo Estrada Rodriguez, University College London
 Rouba Ibrahim, University College London Dongyuan Zhan, University College London
2021 Honorable Mention
Hengchen Dai, University of California Los Angeles
 Xiaoyang Long Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Özalp Özer, Amazon
 Gloria Urrea , University of Colorado at Boulder
 Sebastian Villa, Indiana University
Qiuping Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
 Yiming Zhang, University of Washington
 Yong-Pin Zhou, University of Washington
2020 First Place
Brett Hathaway, Johns Hopkins University
 Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
 Maqbool Dada, Johns Hopkins University
2020 Second Place
Zhenzhen Jia, Fudan University
 Kejia Hu, Vanderbilt University
 Jian-Qiang Hu, Fudan University
 Vishal Ahuja , Southern Methodist University
2020 Honorable Mention
Antonio Castellanos, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
 Galit Yom-Tov, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Yair Goldberg, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Bhavani Shanker Uppari Serguei Netessine, INSEAD Ioana Popescu, INSEAD Clarke Rowan, Harvard University
Frank Hage, Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Schiffels, Technical University of Munich
Martin Grunow, Technical University of Munich
2019 First Place
Michelle Shell, Harvard Business School

 Ryan Buell
2019 Second Place
Michael Becker-Peth, RSM, Erasmus University
 Kai Hoberg, Kühne Logistics University
 Margarita Protopappa-Sieke, University of Cologne Germany
2019 Third Place
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
 Gad Allon, Northwestern University Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
2018 First Place
Andrew Davis Kyle Hyndman
2018 Second Place
Ruthy Beer Ignacio Rios, Stanford University Daniela Saban, Stanford University
2018 Third Place
Daniel Feller Jordan Tong
2017 First Place
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
 Jun Li, University of Michigan
 Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
2017 Second Place
Bhavani Shanker Uppari Sameer Hasija, INSEAD
2017 Honorable Mention
Eric Park, School of Business, University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
 Yichuan Ding, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
 Mahesh Nagarajan, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
 Eric Grafstein, Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health
2016 Winner(s)
Javad Nasiry, INSEAD Xiaoyang Long Yaozhong Wu
2016 Second Place
Jingqi Wang Yong-Pin Zhou, University of Washington
2016 Honorable Mention
Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
 Stephen Leider William Lovejoy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
2015 Winner(s)
Ernan Haruvy Elena Katok, Pennsylvania State University Valery Pavlov
2015 Second Place
Tim Kraft, University of Virginia León Valdés Yanchong Zheng
2015 Honorable Mention
Hummy Song Anita L. Tucker Karen L. Murrell David R. Vinson
2014 Winner(s)
Lisa M. Scheele Marco Slikker Ulrich W. Thonemann
2014 Honorable Mention
Vishal Agrawal Atalay Atasu, INSEAD Koert van Ittersum, University of Groningen
2014 Runner-Up
Stephen Leider Andrew Davis

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