Best Working Paper

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Exploit or Explore? An Empirical Study of Resource Allocation in Research Labs

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

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