FIRST PLACE
| Team: | Continental Airlines |
| Paper: | A New Era for Crew Recovery at Continental Airlines |
| Laureates: |
Gang Yu, University of Texas at Austin Michael Argüello, CALEB Technologies Corporation Gao Song, CALEB Technologies Corporation Sandra M. McCowan, CALEB Technologies Corporation Anna White, Continental Airlines |
FINALISTS
| Team: | Mars, Incorporated |
| Paper: | Combinational and Quantity-Discount Procurement Auctions Benefit Mars, Incorporated and Its Suppliers |
| Laureates: |
Gail Hohner, Mars, Incorporated John Rich, Mars, Incorporated Ed Ng, Mars, Incorporated Grant Reid, Mars, Incorporated Andrew J. Davenport, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Jayant R. Kalagnanam, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ho Soo Lee, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Chae An, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
| Team: | PSA Peugeot Citroën |
| Paper: | Improving Car Body Production at PSA Peugeot Citroën |
| Laureates: |
Alain Patchong, PSA Peugeot Citroën Thierry Lemoine, PSA Peugeot Citroën Gilles Kern, PSA Peugeot Citroën |
| Team: | Rhenania |
| Paper: | Optimizing Rhenania's Mail-Order Business Through Dynamic Multilevel Modeling (DMLM) |
| Laureates: |
Ralf Elsner, Rhenania Group Manfred Krafft, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Arnd Huchzermeier, Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU) |
| Team: | Schindler Corporation |
| Paper: | Optimizing Periodic Maintenance Operations for Schindler Elevator Corporation |
| Laureates: |
Fred Blakeley, Schindler Elevator Corporation, Inc. Burçin Bozkaya, ESRI Buyang Cao, ESRI Wolfang Hall, ESRI Joseph Knolmajer, Schindler Elevator Corporation, Inc. |
| Team: | Syngenta |
| Paper: | Managing the Seed-Corn Supply Chain at Syngenta |
| Laureates: |
Philip C. Jones, University of Iowa Greg Kegler, Syngenta Seeds, Inc. Timothy J. Lowe, University of Iowa Rodney D. Traub, North Dakota State University |