FIRST PLACE
| Team: | Health Care Financing Administration |
| Paper: | Diagnosis Related Groups: Understanding Hospital Performance |
| Laureates: | Robert B. Fetter, Yale University |
FINALISTS
| Team: | American Airlines (ASAS) |
| Paper: | American Airlines Arrival Slot Allocation System (ASAS) |
| Laureates: | Alberto Vasquez-Marquez, American Airlines |
| Team: | American Airlines |
| Paper: | Recent Advances in Crew-Pairing Optimization at American Airlines |
| Laureates: |
Ranga Anbil, American Airlines Eric Gelman, American Airlines Bruce Patty, American Airlines Rajan Tanga, American Airlines |
| Team: | Kodak Australasia |
| Paper: | Planning the Cutting of Photographic Color Paper Rolls for Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. |
| Laureates: | A.A. Farley, Monash University/Alternative Management Solutions |
| Team: | L.L. Bean, Inc. |
| Paper: | Allocating Telecommunications Resources at L.L. Bean, Inc. |
| Laureates: |
Phillip Quinn, L.L. Bean, Inc. Bruce Andrews, Unviersity of Southern Maine Henry Parsons, University of Southern Maine |
| Team: | Reynolds Metals Company |
| Paper: | The Indispensable Role of Management Science in Centralizing Freight Operations at Reynolds Metals Company |
| Laureates: |
E. William Moore, Jr., Reynolds Metals Company Janice M. Warmke, Reynolds Metals Company Lonny R. Gorbanm, Reynolds Metals Company |
| Team: | Southern Company Services |
| Paper: | Using an Optimization Software to Lower Overall Electric Production Cost for Southern Company |
| Laureates: |
S.R. Erwin, Southern Company Services J.S. Griffith, Southern Company Services J.T. Wood, Southern Company Services K.D. Le, ABB Power Systems, Inc. J.T. Day, ABB Power Systems, Inc. C.K. Yin, ABB Power Systems, Inc. |