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

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