M&SOM Best Paper Award

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Sustainability in the Fast Fashion Industry

Purpose of the Award

Each year, the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society selects one paper for the Management Science Best Paper Award. This paper is deemed most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management. 

Information:

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

Click here for award application information. 

Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Xiaoyang Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Javad Nasiry, INSEAD
2024
Winner(s)
Priyank Arora , University of South Carolina
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karthik Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
2023
Winner(s)
Linda Goler Blount, Black Women's Health Imperative
Shannon L. Harris, Virginia Commonwealth University
Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University
Michele Samorani, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
Michael A. Santoro, Santa Clara University
Finalist
Hongqiao Chen, School of Management & Engineering, Nanjing University
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
A. Gürhan Kök, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Shang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Owen Wu, Indiana University
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Yangfang (Helen) Zhou, Singapore Management University
2022
Winner(s)
Xin Fang , Singapore Management University
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University
Sridhar Tayur, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
Ying Xu, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Finalist
Hessam Bavafa , University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Joann de Zegher , MIT

Markus Ettl , IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Pavithra Harsha, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dan Iancu, Stanford University
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gurhan Kok, Duke University
Hau Lee, Stanford University
Anna Papush, MIT
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Shang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
2021
Winner(s)
Atalay Atasu, INSEAD
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology
Can Zhang, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business
Finalist
Joann de Zegher , MIT

Santiago Gallino
Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley
Dan Iancu, Stanford University
Tim Kraft, University of Virginia
Hau Lee, Stanford University
Antonio Moreno, Harvard Business School
León Valdés, University of Pittsburgh
Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2020
Winner(s)
Fei Gao
Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Finalist
Terry Taylor , University of California - Berkeley
Gérard P. Cachon
Kaitlin M. Daniels, Washington University in Saint Louis
Ruben Lobel, Airbnb
2019
Winner(s)
Long He, National University of Singapore Business School
Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, University of California, Berkeley
2018
Winner(s)
Michael Lim, Seoul National University
Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
Finalist
David Simchi-Levi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Bray , Northwestern University
Gérard P. Cachon
Kaitlin M. Daniels, Washington University in Saint Louis
Kris Johnson, MIT Operations Research Center
Bin Hong Alex Lee, MIT Operations Research Center
Ruben Lobel, Airbnb
Haim Mendelson, Stanford University
2017
Winner(s)
Jason Acimovic, Penn State University
Stephen C. Graves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Finalist
Robert L. Bray, Stanford University
KC Diwas
Song-Hee Kim
Haim Mendelson, Stanford University
Ward Whitt, Columbia University, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Dept.
2016
Awardee(s)
Vivek Farias, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Srikanth Jagabathula, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
Awardee(s)
Feryal Erhun , Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Erik Hertzler, Intel
Karl Kempf, Intel Corporation
Chen Peng, UBER
2014
Awardee(s)
Philipp Afèche, Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto
2013
Awardee(s)
Omar Besbes, Columbia University
Robert Phillips, Columbia University Business School
Assaf Zeevi, Columbia University
2012
Awardee(s)
Victor F. Araman, American University of Beirut
Ioana Popescu, INSEAD
2011
Awardee(s)
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Jean-Philippe Gayon, Grenoble Institute of Technology
Francis de Véricourt, INSEAD
2010
Awardee(s)
Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2009
Awardee(s)
Nicole DeHoratius, University of Portland
Adam Mersereau, Kenan-Flagler School at University of North Carolina
Linus Schrage, Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
2007
Awardee(s)
Martin A. Lariviere, Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
Jan A. Van Mieghem, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management