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The 2017 Fall Newsletter is now available. Much thanks belongs to Pascale Crama, who put the newsletter together, and the contributing officers. You may have already seen the link in the INFORMS Connect Community, and it can also be downloaded from our Newsletters link . In the newsletter, our Chair, Gülru Özkan-Seely, announces key details for INFORMS, including our new partnership with the Lazaridis Institute, who will be sponsoring our Best Dissertation Award. We also hear from our Distinguished Speaker, Dr. John Paul MacDuffie of Wharton, whose talk will "...[P]rovide some lessons for TIMES scholars about the advantages of bringing deep contextual knowledge ...

TIMES is excited to announce a new three-year partnership with the Lazaridis Institute, who will become the primary sponsor of the Best Dissertation Award. The award will thus be renamed as “ TIMES Best Dissertation Awards sponsored by Lazaridis Institute .” As a result, TIMES will be able to double the total cash prize pool available to the finalists of the competition, including a new top prize of $800 for the winner of the competition. The competition is open to all graduate students who have defended their dissertations within the past two years. All research topics that fit within the section’s main domains (technology, innovation management and entrepreneurship) ...