MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Reshaping National Organ Allocation Policy

Purpose of the Award

The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place through informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.

Application process

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

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
James Alcorn, United Network for Organ Sharing
Rebecca Goff, United Network for Organ Sharing
Theodore Papalexopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Darren Stewart, New York University
Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Dick den Hertog, University of Amsterdam
Jean Pauphilet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yannick Pham, The Ocean Cleanup:
Bruno Sainte-Rose, The Ocean Cleanup
Baizhi Song, London Business School
Finalist
David R. Hardoon, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
Adrienne Heinrich, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center of Excellence, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
Stephanie Kelley, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Eduardo Lara, University of Chile
Dominique Olié Lauga
Sheng Liu
Paula Moreno, ChileCompra
Marcelo Olivares
Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen's University
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Auyon Saddiq
Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology
Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University
Sytske C. Wijnsma
Piero Zanocco, University of Chile
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
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)
Felipe Caro, UCLA
Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
Leonard Lane, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
Runner-Up
Alireza Boloori, Arizona State University
Harini A. Chakkera, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital
Curtiss B. Cook, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Finalist
George P. Ball, Operations and Decision Technologies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington
Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
David J. Ketchen Jr., Department of Management, Auburn University
Corinne Post, Department of Management and Operations, Villanova University
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Kaitlin D. Wowak, IT, Analytics, and Operations Department, University of Notre Dame
2022
Winner(s)
Joan C. Williams , UC Hastings
Samantha M. Keppler , University of Michigan
Susan J. Lambert , University of Chicago
Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina
Jun Li, University of Michigan
Pradeep Pendem, University of Oregon
Di Wu, University of Michigan
Honorable Mention
Telesilla Kotsi, Ohio State University
Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University
Owen Wu, Indiana University
2021
Winner(s)
Jivan Romain Deglise-Hawkinson, Lean Care Solutions
Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Health
Julian Pan, Lean Care Solutions
Pengyi Shi, Purdue University
Finalist
Vivek Choudhary, Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore
Maria Ibanez, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
Seongjoon Koo
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Masha Shunko, Foster School of Business
University of Washington

Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School

Honorable Mention
Priyank Arora , University of South Carolina
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University
Gabriel Escobar
Wenqi Hu, Columbia Business School
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karthik Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
José R. Zubizarreta, Harvard Medical School
2020
Winner(s)
Itai Ashlagi , Stanford University
Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manoj Rajan, Rashtriya e Market Services Private Limited
Peng Shi, USC Marshall School of Business
Somya Singhvi, University of Southern California
Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
Wayne Fu, Department of Management Studies & Decision Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Basak Kalkanci, Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business
Jun Li, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
Dennis Zhang, WUSTL
2019
Winner(s)
Can Zhang , Duke University
Atalay Atasu, INSEAD
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology
Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology