The POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management (CBOM) invites submissions to the 2022 CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition. We welcome papers in the domain of behavioral operations management. Deadline for submission is Dec 31, 2021.
The first prize is recognized with a plaque and accompanied by a $500 honorarium. The runner-up prize is recognized with a plaque and accompanied by a $300 honorarium. The honorable mention is recognized with a plaque.
The winners will be announced during the 2022 POMS Conference scheduled for April 21-25, 2022, to be held in Orlando, Florida.
Past winners
2021 Alp Sungu, London Business School, "TitleData Caps Expand Access to Digitally-led Health Services – Evidence from a Mumbai Slum"
2020 Somya Singhvi, MIT, "Improving Farmers' Income on Online Agri-platforms: Theory and Field Implementation of a Two-Stage Auction"
2019: Anna Saez de Tejada Cuenca, UCLA, "Believing in Analytics: Manager's Adherence to Price Recommendations from a DSS"
Eligibility Conditions
- Entrant must have been a student on or after January 1, 2020 and the research presented in the paper must have been conducted while the entrant was a student.
- The submitted paper must present original research conducted primarily by the student entrant. Some assistance by other individuals (such as the student's faculty advisor) is permitted, however the entrant's primary research advisor must certify that the student's share of contribution to the paper exceeds 50%.
- Entrant must be a member of the BOM College of POMS on the date of submission (visit the POMS Website for information on how to become a POMS/CBOM member).
- A student may submit no more than one paper to the competition.
Award recipients' selection procedure
The award recipients will be selected by a three-person Awards Committee, which consists of the Chair and two members. To inform its opinion, the Committee will seek up to three referee reports for each submission. The referees will be selected to minimize the conflict of interest with the authors and will include other CBOM members and/or researchers in this domain. To the extent possible, anonymous referee comments will be returned for each submission.
If a submission has a substantial conflict of interest with a member of the awards committee, the other committee members will primarily handle the entry, assign referees and evaluate the submission. Should the submission be recommended as a finalist by the remaining two committee members, the СBOM President (or designee) will assist in evaluating and/or ranking the finalists.
The 2022 Awards Committee consists of:
- Yinghao Zhang, Chair
- Nikolay Kazantsev
- Blair Flicker
Submission Requirements:
- A cover letter including:
- Names and contact information of all authors;
- Names of the student entrant and the student's primary advisor;
- Names and contact information of 3 referees free of conflicts of interests.
- List of all other student paper competitions (e.g., other POMS colleges) to which this paper has been/will be submitted in the 2021-2022 academic year.
- The paper in completely anonymous form and PDF file format, with a length of at most 32 pages excluding the appendix but including tables, figures, and references, and compliant with all submission formatting standards of the POM journal as described at http://www.poms.org/journal/author_instructions/. The paper must include all material necessary for judges to assess its technical correctness, possibly included in an appendix of no more than 8 pages. The file name should be the short title of the paper.
- An electronic pdf file of a letter signed by both a faculty adviser and the entrant attesting that the entrant and the paper satisfy the eligibility conditions (if the paper is co-authored).
The above documents should be sent by the entrant to: pomsbomcollege@gmail.com
Please include "2022 CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition: [paper title]" in the subject line.
Complete entries must be received on or before Dec 31, 2021. It is the entrant's responsibility to allow for appropriate time to enroll as a new member of the BOM College (approximately 2-3 business days). Any questions related to the competition should be sent by email to Yinghao Zhang at yinghao.zhang@uc.edu.
Good luck to all entrants!
Javad Nasiry, Yinghao Zhang, Nikolay Kazantsev, and Blair Flicker
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Yinghao Zhang
Assistant Professor of Operations, Business Analytics & Information Systems (OBAIS)
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati OH
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