2025
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2025.ย
- First place: "๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต: ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ด, 80โ20".- by Blair Flicker and Charlie Hannigan
- Second place (tie):
- โ๐๐ช๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐โ
by Yang Chen, Sam Kirshner, Anton Ovchinnikov, Meena Andiappan, and Tracy Jenkin
โ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ดโ
by Jiacheng Chang, Xiao Lei, and Feng Tian
- Honorable mention: โ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ-๐๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ: ๐๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ดโ
by Zhanzhi Zheng, Shenyang Jiang, Lillian Yuqian Xu Xu, and Brad Staats
2024
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2024.ย
- First place: Green E-commerce: Environmental Impact of Fast Delivery - by Chenshan Hu, Xiaoyang Long, Jiankun Sun, Dennis Zhang.ย
- Second place: Delegated Innovation Scouting when Success is Rare: A Behavioral Investigation -ย by Mirko Kremer and Jochen Schlapp.
- Honorable mentions:
- Enhancing Volunteer Retention: The Role of Experienced Volunteer - by Vinit, Tipnis, Christopher Chen, Fei Gao.
- Modeling the Influence of Unpaid Effort in Delivery Agentsโ Choices in Last-Mile Platforms - by Lina Wang, Stanley Lim, Elliot Rabinovich.
2023
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2023.ย
- First place: Competition in Optimal Stopping: Behavioral Insights - by Ignacio Rios and Pramit Ghosh.
- Second place: Improving Human-Algorithm Collaboration: Causes and Mitigation of Over- and Under-Adherence - by Maya Balakrishnan, Kris Ferreira and Jordan Tong.ย
- Honorable mentions:
- Customers' Multihoming Behavior in Ride-hailing: Empirical Evidence Using a Structural Model - by Sandeep Chitla, Maxime Cohen, Srikanth Jagabathula and Dmitry Mitrofanov
- Measuring Strategic Behavior by Gig Economy Workers: Multihoming and Repositioning -ย by Daniel Chen, Gad Allon and Ken Moon
2022
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2022.ย
- First place: Supplying Cash-Constrained Retailers: Understanding Shopkeeper Behavior at the Bottom of the Pyramidย โ by Sebastian Villa, Rafael Escamilla, and Jan Fransoo.
- Second place: Under-Promising and Over-Delivering to Improve Patient Satisfaction at Emergency Departments: Evidence from a Field Experiment Providing Wait Informationย โ by Sina Ansari, Debo Laurens, Marรญa Ibรกรฑez, Seyed M.R. Iravani, and Sanjeev Malik.
- Honorable mentions:
- Disclosing Low Product Availability: An Online Retailer's Strategy for Mitigating Stockout Risk โ by Dmitry Mitrofanov and Benjamin Knight.
- Can Employees' Past Helping Behavior be Used to Improve Shift Scheduling? Evidence from ICU Nurses โ by Zoey (Zhaohui) JIANG, John Silberholz, Yixin (Iris) Wang, Deena Kelly Costa, and Michael Sjoding.
2021
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2021:
- First place: Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?ย โ by Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, and Park Sinchaisri.
- Second place: On Customer (Dis)honesty in Priority Queues: The Role of Lying Aversionย โ by Rouba Ibrahim, Arturo Estrada Rodriguez, Dongyuan Zhan.
- Honorable mentions (we have three this year due to the record number of excellent submissions):
- Wage Transparency, Negotiation, and Reference-dependent Utilityย โ by Hengchen Dai, Xiaoyang Long, and Dennis Zhang.
- To Earmark or Not to Earmark? The Role of Control, Transparency, Salience and Warm-Glowย โ by รzalp รzer, Gloria Urrea, and Sebastian Villa.
- Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Major Ride-Sharing Platform โย by Qiuping Yu, Yiming Zhang, and Yong-Pin Zhou.
2020
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2020:
- First place: The Gatekeeper's Dilemma: "When Should I Transfer This Customer?" by Evgeny Kagan, Brett Hathaway, & Maqbool Dada
- Second place: To What Extent Do Workersโ Preferences Matter by Zhenzhen Jia, Kejia Hu, Jian-Qiang Hu, & Vishal Ahuja
- Honorable mentions (we have three this year due to the record number of excellent submissions):
- Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda by Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioana Popescu, & Clarke Rowan
- Silent Abandonment in Contact Centers: Estimating Customer Patience from Uncertain Data by Antonio Castellanos, Galit Yom-Tov, & Yair Goldberg
- A capacity allocation auction for sales and operations planning - Eliciting truthful information by Frank Hage, Sebastian Schiffels, & Martin Grunow
2019
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2019:
- First Place: Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety through Access to Human Contactย Michelle Shell (Harvard University) & Ryan Buell (Harvard University)
- Second Place: Multi-Period Inventory Management with Budget Cycles: Rational and Behavioral Decision Makingย Michael Becker-Peth (RSM Erasmus), Kai Hoberg (KLU Hamburg), & Margarita Protopappa-Sieke (McKinsey & Company)
- Honorable Mention: The Impact of Behavioral and Economic Drivers on Gig Economy Workers Park Sinchaisri (University of Pennsylvania),ย Gad Allon (University of Pennsylvania),ย Maxime Cohen (NYU)
2018
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2018:ย
- First Place:ย Private Information and Endogenous Matching in Supply Chainsย Andrew Davis (Cornell University) & Kyle Hyndman (UT Dallas)
- Second Place:ย Increased Transparency in Procurement: The Role of Peer Effectsย Ruth Beer (Indiana University), Ignacio Rios (Stanford University), & Daniela Saban (Standford University)
- Honorable Mention: ย From Noise to Bias in Linked Supply Chain Decisionsย Daniel Fuller (Dartmouth) & Jordan Tong (University of Wisconsin)
2017
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2017:ย
- First Place: Ruomeng Cui, Jun Li, and Dennis Zhang: Discrimination with Incomplete Information in the Shared Economy: Evidence from Field Experiments on Airbnb
- Second Place: Bhavani Shanker Uppari and Sameer Hasija: Modeling Newsvendor Behavior: A Prospect Theory Approach
- Honorable Mention: ย Eric Park, Yichuan Ding, Mahesh Nagarajan, and Eric Grafstein: Patient Prioritization in Emergency Department Triage Systems: An Empirical Study of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS)
2016
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2016:
- First Place:ย A Behavioral Study on Abandonment Decisions in Multi-Stage Projectsย by Javad Nasiry (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Xiaoyang Long (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and Yaozhong Wu (National University of Singapore)
- Second Place:ย Impact of Queue Configuration on Service Time: Evidence from a Supermarketย by Jingqi Wang (University of Hong Kong) and Yong-Pin Zhou (University of Washington, Seattle)
- Honorable Mention:ย ย Ideation-Execution Transition in Product Developmentย by Evgeny Kagan (University of Michigan Ross School of Business), Stephen Leider (University of Michigan Ross School of Business) and William Lovejoy (University of Michigan Ross School of Business)
2015
The results were announced at the conclusion of a special presentation session at INFORMS 2015:
- First Place: Bargaining Process and Channel Efficiencyย by Ernan Haruvy (University of Texas at Dallas), Elena Katok (University of Texas at Dallas), and Valery Pavlov (University of Auckland)
- Second Place: Transparency and Indirect Reciprocity in Social Responsibility: An Incentivized Experimentย by Tim Kraft (University of Virginia), Leon Valdes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Yanchong Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Honorable Mention:ย Learning From the Best: The Effects of Public Relative Performance Feedback on Variability and Productivityย by Hummy Song (Harvard University), Anita L. Tucker (Brandeis University), Karen L. Murrell (Kaiser Permanente), and David Vinson (Kaiser Permanente)
2014
Results were announced on Nov. 9, 2014 during the INFORMS BOM Best Working Paper Presentation session at INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Congratulations to all finalists.ย
- First Place:ย Designing Incentive Systems for Truthful Demand Information Sharingโ Theory and Experimentย by Lisa M. Scheele, Marco Slikker and Ulrich W. Thonemann
- Second Place:ย Capacity Investment in Supply Chains: Contracts and the Hold-up Problemย by Andrew Davis and Stephen Leider
- Honorable Mention:ย Remanufacturing, Third-Party Competition, and Consumers' Perceived Value of New Productsย by Vishal Agrawal, Atalay Atasu and Koert van Ittersum
2013
Results were announced on Oct. 6, 2013, 2014 during the INFORMS BOM Best Working Paper Presentation session at INFORMS Annual Meeting.
- First Place:ย Waiting Patiently: An Empirical Study of Queue Abandonment in an Emergency Departmentย Robert Batt & Christian Terwiesch
- Runner Up:ย Trust, Trustworthiness and Information Sharing in Supply Chains Bridging China and the U.S.ย Ozalp Ozer, Yufei Ren, & Yanchong Zheng
- Honorable Mention:ย The Design of Experiential Services: Optimal Sequence and Duration of Service Activitiesย Aparupa Das Gupta,ย Uday Karmarkar, &ย Guillaume Roels
Congratulations to all.
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