We received 24 excellent applications for the 2023 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition. Of them, exactly half were analytical, and the other half empirical. After two rounds of evaluations, and a two final sessions at the POMS conference, the results of the competition are:
WINNER
"A Data-driven Approach to Improve Artisans' Productivity"
Benjamin Liu, Divya Singhvi, Somya Singhvi, Xinyu Zhang
RUNNER-UP
"Business Model Choice under Right to Repair: Economic and Environmental Consequences"
Ece Gulserliler, Atalay Atasu, Luk N. Van Wassenhove
FINALISTS
"Allocation of Funds in Bilevel Subsidy Welfare Programs"
Wei Wei, Priyank Arora, Senay Solak
"The Impact of Climate Change: An Empirical Analysis of Smart Thermostat Data"
Michael Blair, Saed Alizamir, Shouqiang Wang
"Quality Costs of Fuel Efficiency Improvements in the Automobile Industry"
Donggyu Jeon, George P. Ball, Gilvan C. Souza
"Playing Fair? Environmental Impacts and Practices of Facilities in Minority Communities"
Abhinav Shubham, Ravi Subramanian
Congratulations to all the awardees and finalists, and our biggest gratitude to the 24 judges who evaluated the papers!
Can Zhang and Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca
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Anna Saez de Tejada Cuenca
Assistant Professor
IESE Business School
Barcelona
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