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Announcing the 2018 POMS ARC winners

  • 1.  Announcing the 2018 POMS ARC winners

    Posted 05-10-2018 17:16

    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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