Call for Applications: The CfBA Practice Prize recognises and celebrates outstanding applications of business analytics with significant organisational impact. The work must be analytically sound, innovative (either in terms of a new methodology or application in a new problem context), and appropriate to the problem and organization. The work is also expected to provide evidence of verifiable and quantifiable impact on the organisation's performance. The implementation of the work should be completed within the three-year period prior to the year of the competition. The competition welcomes successful advanced analytics applications in business, government, healthcare, education, and non-profit.
Application Process:
- Initial application with a 500-word abstract of the work
- A 1000-word summary of the impact of the work on the organisation's performance
- Deadline: 10 June 2022
- Please send applications through to PracticePrize@mbs.edu
Semi-Finalists:
- Announced on 15 June 2022
- Will be invited to submit a full report by 15 August 2022
- The report (25-page limit, double-spaced, 12-point font, normal margins) should elaborate on the context, problem, methodology, and evidence of impact.
Finalists:
- Announced 15 September 2022
- Will be invited to present their work during the 2022 Melbourne Business Analytics Conference (11 October 2022), which provides a forum for 1,000+ board members, senior executives, industry professionals, and academicians to discuss the transformation of decision making through data science, advanced analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning and AI. Winner to be announced after presentations
- The winning team will be awarded a prize money of $AUD 10,000 (~ USD $7,000)
Judging Panel:
- Amy Shi-Nash, Chief Data Scientist, National Australia Bank
- Christelle Young, Chief Strategy & Analytics Officer, L'Oréal ANZ
- Dan Adelman, Charles I. Clough, Jr. Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
- Michael Smith, Chair of Management (Econometrics), Melbourne Business School
- Steve Tadelis, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Distinguished Professor; Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Global Initiatives; Faculty Director, Center for Global Management, UCLA
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YALCIN AKCAY
Professor
MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL
CARLTON VIC
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