On behalf of the Decision Analysis Society, we are delighted to announce the winner and runners-up of the 2026 Decision Analysis Society Publication Award. We received many competitive submissions this year, which were impressive and covered a broad variety of topics in decision analysis.
This year's award will be given to:
Soll, J. B., Palley, A. B., Klayman, J., & Moore, D. A. (2024). Overconfidence in probability distributions: People know they don't know, but they don't know what to do about it. Management Science, 70(11), 7422-7442.
We are also pleased to honor as runners-up:
Baucells, M., Grushka-Cockayne, Y., & Hwang, W. (2024). Managerial mental accounting and downstream project decisions. Management Science, 70(12), 8612-8630.
Soule, D., Grushka-Cockayne, Y., & Merrick, J. (2024). A heuristic for combining correlated experts when there are few data. Management Science, 70(10), 6637-6668.
The winner will present their work in the Decision Analysis Award Session at INFORMS Annual Meeting 2026 in San Francisco.
Please join us in congratulating the authors on this well-deserved recognition of their research!
Best regards,
Alessandra Cillo and Johannes Müller-Trede
Co-Chairs, 2026 Decision Analysis Publication Award
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Alessandra Cillo
Associate Professor
Università Carlo Cattaneo - LIUC
Castellanza
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