Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award

2025 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Starting 2016, the award is presented biennially to the manuscript deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of operations management published in the preceding four years in Operations Research. The editorial board of Operations Research selects the finalists through a voting process, and a dedicated committee determines the winners.

Information:

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Vahideh Manshadi, Yale School of Management
2024
Winner(s)
Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Ioana Popescu, INSEAD
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Runner-Up
Mark Brennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sophia Dyer, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Salvia, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Laura Segal, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Erin Serino, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Justin Steil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
Winner(s)
Daniel Freund, Cornell University
Shane G. Henderson, Cornell University
David B Shmoys, Cornell University
Finalist
Xiaofei Liu , Alibaba
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Ozan Candogan, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Jake Feldman, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Nannan Zhang, Alibaba
2021
Winner(s)
David Simchi-Levi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gah-Yi Ban, University of Maryland
Kris Ferreira, Harvard
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
He Wang, Georgia Tech
Finalist
Ali Aouad, MIT
Xin Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Amr Farahat, Cornell University
Joonkyum Lee, Sogang University

Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Zhuoyu Long, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jin Qi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2019
Winner(s)
Vineet Goyal , Columbia University
Jose Blanchet, Columbia University
Guillermo Gallego, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology