Best Working Paper

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Designing Data Science Contests: The Role of Training vs Test Splits

Purpose of the Award

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

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Ping-Chieh Huang , University of California, San Diego
Zhe Zhang , University of California, San Diego
Sanjiv Erat, University of California, San Diego
Runner-Up
Huseyin Gurkan , ESMT Berlin
Francis de Véricourt, INSEAD
Finalist
Haosen Ge , University of Pennsylvania
Stefanos Poulidis , INSEAD
Susan Feng Lu
Wei Gu , University of Science and Technology Beijing
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Shujing Sun, University of Rochester
2024
Winner(s)
Ran Zhuo, University of Michigan
Runner-Up
Gad Allon, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Ken Moon, University of Pennsylvania
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
Finalist
Elena Belavina, INSEAD, France
Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Southern Methodist University
Sanjiv Erat, University of California, San Diego
Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France
Yu Nu, Cornell University
2023
Winner(s)
Maqbool Dada, Johns Hopkins University
Brett Hathaway, Johns Hopkins University
Evgeny Kagan, Johns Hopkins University
Runner-Up
Ali Aouad, MIT
Christian Kaps, University of Pennsylvania
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Kamalini Ramdas, London Business School
Alp Sungu, London Business School
Finalist
Guangwen Kong , University of Minnesota
Wedad Elmaghraby, University of Maryland, RH Smith School of Business
Jingxuan Geng, Temple University
Jane Yi Jiang, University of Maryland, College Park
Ken Moon, University of Pennsylvania
Marco Shaojun Qin, Temple University
2022
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
Meng Li , Rutgers University
Kedong Chen, Old Dominion University
Wei Gu, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Yuhong Li, Old Dominion University
Kevin Linderman, Penn State University
Xiaojin (Jim) Liu, Virginia Commonwealth University
Shujing Sun, University of Rochester
Finalist
Sanjiv Erat, University of California, San Diego
Chen Jin, National University of Singapore
Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr
Zhen Shao, The University of Science and Technology of China
Konstantinos I. Stouras, University College Dublin
Luyi Yang
2021
Winner(s)
Hamsa Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Osbert Bastani, University of Pennsylvania
Sıdıka Tunç Candoğan, UCL School of Management
Philipp Cornelius, Erasmus University
Bilal Gokpinar, Northwestern University, Industrial Engineering & Management Science
Ersin Korpeoglu, Carnegie Mellon University
Jochen Schlapp, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Gerrit Schumacher, Gotthardt Healthgroup
Park Sinchaisri, Wharton
Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles
Third Place
Kejia Hu, Vanderbilt University
Nil Karacaoglu, Ohio State University
2020
Winner(s)
Sıdıka Tunç Candoğan, UCL School of Management
C. Gizem Korpeoglu, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Christopher Tang, University of California-Los Angeles
Runner-Up
Yao Cui, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Jingchen Liu, Nanjing University
2019
First Place
Soo-Haeng Cho, Carnegie Mellon University
Alan A. Scheller-Wolf, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Xin Wang, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Second Place
Vishal Agrawal , McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
L. Beril Toktay, MIT
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Runner-Up
Joey van Angeren, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sreekumar Bhaskaran, Southern Methodist University
Sinan Erzurumlu, Babson College
Arvind Karunakaran, McGill University
Chris Kemerer
Karthik Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
Narayan Ramasubbu, University of Pittsburgh
Shivendu P. Singh, The University of Waikato
2018
First Place
Stelios Kavadias, University of Cambridge
Stylianos Kavadias, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panos Markou, University of Cambridge
Nektarios Oraiopoulos, University of Cambridge
Second Place
Isa Emin Hafalir, Carnegie Mellon University
C. Gizem Korpeoglu, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Ersin Korpeoglu, Carnegie Mellon University
Third Place
Henry Aspegren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Tian Heong Chan
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester
Jurgen Mihm, INSEAD
Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology
Karthik Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
Manuel Sosa, INSEAD
Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
Mark Weber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)