We are proud to announce the first place and finalists of the 3rd POMS Applied Research Challenge (see below). The competition was a success. The call for papers for the 4th edition of the competition will be announced later this year. Stay tuned.
First Place:
Leveraging Comparables for New Product Sales Forecasting
Lennart Baardman (MIT OR Center)
Igor Levin (Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc.)
Georgia Perakis (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Divya Singhvi (MIT OR Center)
Finalists:
How Does Dynamic Pricing Affect Customer Behavior on Retailing Platforms? Evidence from a Large Randomized Experiment on Alibaba
Dennis Zhang (WUSTL Olin Business School)
Lingxiu Dong (WUSTL Olin Business School)
Hengchen Dai (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Xiaofei Liu (Alibaba Group)
Nannan Zhang (Alibaba Group)
Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems
Daniel Freund (Cornell University)
Shane G. Henderson (Cornell University)
David B. Shmoys (Cornell University)
Felipe Caro
POMS ARC Chair
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Felipe Caro
Associate Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Los Angeles CA
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