Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Sourcing Innovation: On Feedback in Contests

Purpose of the Award

The best paper award is given out annually at the TIMES Business Meeting to the best paper in technology management, product/process innovation, business model innovation, new product development, and entrepreneurship. 

Application process:

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Jurgen Mihm, INSEAD
Jochen Schlapp, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Runner-Up
Elina Hwang , University of Washington, Seattle
Linda Argote, Carnegie Mellon University
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Shayan Ehsani, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Mohamed Mostagir, University of Michigan
Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
2023
Winner(s)
Tian Heong Chan
Jurgen Mihm, INSEAD
Manuel Sosa, INSEAD
Runner-Up
Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University
Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
William Lovejoy, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Geoffrey Parker, Dartmouth
2022
Winner(s)
Vishal Agrawal , McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Ioannis Bellos
Runner-Up
Laurence Ales, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University,
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University
Pascale Crama, Singapore Management University
Ersin Korpeoglu, Carnegie Mellon University
Bert De Reyck, University College London, Dept. of Management Science & Innovation
Niyazi Taneri, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
2021
Winner(s)
Ilan Lobel, New York University
Jigar Patel
Gustavo Vulcano, Columbia University
Jiawei Zhang, New York University
Runner-Up
Kevin Boudreau
Eva Guinan, Harvard Medical School
Karim Lakhani
Christoph Riedl, Northeastern University
2020
Winner(s)
Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Stylianos Kavadias, Georgia Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Buket Avci, INSEAD
Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
2019
Winner(s)
Nikolaus Franke, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Marion K. Poetz, Copenhagen Business School
Martin Schreier, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Runner-Up
Christophe Van den Bulte, University of Pennsylvania
Lorin M. Hitt
Yansong Hu, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe
2018
Winner(s)
Barry L. Bayus
Florian Ederer, Yale University
Gustavo Manso, University of California at Berkeley
Runner-Up
Sharon Alvarez , University of Pittsburgh
Phillip C. Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jay Barney, University of Utah
Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Elie Ofek
Ozge Turut, Rutgers University
Glenn Voss, Southern Methodist University
Zannie Giraud Voss, Southern Methodist University
2017
Winner(s)
Kevin Boudreau
Runner-Up
Erik Brynjolfsson
Lorin M. Hitt
Bill McEvily
Ray Reagans
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe
Marco Tortoriello
2016
First Place
Carliss Baldwin
Eric von Hippel
Runner-Up
Kevin Boudreau
Nicola Lacetera
Karim Lakhani