The Lanchester prize is awarded for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in English in the past five years.
Submissions accepted through June 15, 2025
Learn more about past winners or how to submit a nomination
To be eligible for the Lanchester Prize, a paper, a book, or a group of books or papers must meet the following requirements:
- It must be on an operations research/management science subject.
- It must have been published in in the past five years (i.e. 2021 or more recent). For a group of publications, at least one publication of the group must have been published during that same five-year period.
- It must be written in the English language, and
- It must have appeared in the open literature.
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Christy Blevins
INFORMS
Catonsville MD
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