Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2025 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Competition. The competition is sponsored by the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. The finalists in alphabetical order are as follows:
1) Action vs. Attention Signals for Human-AI Collaboration: Evidence from Chess
Stefanos Poulidis (INSEAD), Haosen Ge (University of Pennsylvania), Hamsa Bastani (University of Pennsylvania), Osbert Bastani (University of Pennsylvania)
2) Designing Data Science Contests: The Role of Training vs Test Splits
Ping-Chieh Huang (University of California, San Diego), Zhe Zhang (University of California, San Diego), Sanjiv Erat (University of California, San Diego)
3) Enhancing Deep-Tech Innovation: An Equilibrium Analysis of Joint Ventures
Francis de Véricourt (ESMT Berlin), Huseyin Gurkan (ESMT Berlin)
4) When Peers Matter More: The Dominance of Social Influence Over Algorithm Accuracy in Patient Decision Making
Shujing Sun (University of Texas at Dallas), Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu (Dartmouth College), Susan Feng Lu (University of Toronto), Wei Gu (University of Science and Technology Beijing)
We would like to thank our incredible panel of judges for their valuable contribution to the evaluation process. The winner and runner up will be announced at the TIMES Business Meeting at INFORMS, Atlanta.
Congratulations to all the finalists for their well-deserved recognition.
Best regards,
Sina Khorasani, Sidika Candogan
Co-Chairs, 2025 INFORMS TIMES Best Working Paper Competition
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Sina Khorasani
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University
Nashville TN
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