We received 19 excellent applications for the 2024 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition. Of them, 11 were analytical, and 8 were empirical. After two rounds of careful evaluations by 13 judges, we ended up with four finalists:
"Nudging Green but Slow Shipping Choices in Online Retail"
Yeonjoo Lee (with Karen Donohue)
"Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans"
Baizhi Song (with Jean Pauphilet, Dick den Hertog, Bruno Sainte-Rose, and Yannick Pham)
"The Role of Driver Behavior in Moving the Electric Grid to Zero Emissions"
Leann Thayaparan (with Georgia Perakis)
"Greenness and its Discontents: Operational Implications of Investor Pressure"
Nilsu Uzunlar (with Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)
We congratulate all the finalists! The winners will be announced at the POMS Conference.
Serasu Duran and Somya Singhvi
PS: We'd like to express our biggest gratitude to the judges who evaluated the papers, namely (in alphabetical order):
Ali Fattahi, Alp Sungu, Amrita Kundu, Anna Cuenca, Christian Kaps, Divya Singhvi, Elisabeth Paulson, Maya Ganesh, Michael Blair, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Soudipta Chakraborty, Sytske Wijnsma and Xiaoyang Long.
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Somya Singhvi
Assistant Professor
USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles CA
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