Lifetime Award
GDN Section Honorary Chair — a lifetime distinction recognizing exceptional professional activity and service to the GDN community and the Section.
The title of GDN Section Honorary Chair may be offered to a member in recognition of her or his professional activities and service to the GDN community and the Section. The Honorary Chair must be an exceptional and longstanding member of the Section who does not hold any position in the Section and who has distinguished herself or himself through commitment and extraordinary service to the field of Group Decision and Negotiation and to the GDN Section. The Honorary Chair is elected for lifetime.
Eligibility An exceptional and longstanding Section member who holds no position in the Section and has demonstrated extraordinary commitment and service to GDN.
Nomination The GDN Section Award Committee solicits, scrutinizes, and selects up to two nominees.
Election The selected nominees are submitted to the elected officers, who may elect at most one Honorary Chair in any given year.
Lifetime Honor The Honorary Chair is elected for lifetime.
Number of Chairs At any given time, there shall be no more than two Honorary Chairs.
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GDN Section Award
Recognizing outstanding contributions to the GDN Section and its research community.
The GDN INFORMS Section Award honors an individual who has made outstanding contributions to research in the field of Group Decision and Negotiation and/or outstanding contributions to the GDN Section. The contributions justifying the award may be recent or they may have been made over the recipient's lifetime. The Award will be accompanied by a Citation, to be prepared by the Section Award Committee, describing the recipient's contributions to Group Decision and Negotiation.
EligibilityOpen to members with significant contributions to GDN research or activities.
NominationQualified nominations are submitted for consideration by the Section.
SelectionSelection is based on impact, quality, and sustained contribution.
RecognitionThe award is announced and presented within the GDN community.
ImpactThe award highlights significant service and scholarly leadership.
Outstanding Service Award
Recognizing exceptional service to the INFORMS GDN Section.
The Award honors an individual who has made outstanding service contributions to the INFORMS GDN Section. The service contributions justifying the award may be recent or they may have been made over the recipient's lifetime. The Award will be accompanied by a Citation, to be prepared by the Award Committee, describing the recipient's Service contributions to the Section.
ServiceRecognizes exceptional service and volunteer contribution.
LeadershipHighlights meaningful leadership within Section initiatives.
CommunityValues contributions to the international GDN network.
RecognitionRecipients are formally acknowledged by the Section.
ContributionEmphasizes sustained commitment to the GDN mission.
GDN Conference Awards
Recognizing excellence in research presented at the annual GDN Conference.
The conference awards distinguish high-quality scholarly work presented at GDN, including the Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award.
GDN Springer Best Paper Award
Best Paper — $600
Runner-up — $400
Award details
Selected papers are expected to be submitted to the INFORMS Group Decision and Negotiation Journal published by Springer (GDN Journal).
GDN Springer Best Student Paper Award
Best Paper — $300
Runner-up — $200
Eligibility and submission criteria
- The author must not have completed the PhD.
- The student must be the first author of the paper; the supervisor may be a co-author.
- The paper must be presented by the student at the conference.
- The submission must be a full paper, not an abstract or extended abstract.
Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award
Honoring outstanding research published in the Group Decision and Negotiation journal.
The award commemorates the late Gregory Kersten, Section President and Editor in Chief of the GDN Journal, and recognizes an outstanding paper published in Group Decision and Negotiation.
About the Award
To commemorate the late Gregory Kersten, Section President and Editor in Chief of the GDN Journal, the INFORMS Section on Group Decision and Negotiation established the annual Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award for outstanding papers published in the GDN journal.
Eligibility
The award is given annually to a paper published in Group Decision and Negotiation in the previous calendar year that best contributes to the advancement of the theory and/or practice of group decision and negotiation.
A paper is eligible if it appeared in one of the journal issues published during the calendar year or was available as an Online First Article on December 31 of that year. No paper can be selected for the award more than once.
Nomination
Papers are nominated for the award by the Departmental Editors of the GDN journal. Associate Editors may nominate papers through their respective Departmental Editors. Each Departmental Editor may nominate up to three papers for a given year.
Members of the Award Committee who are not Departmental Editors may also nominate up to three papers for a calendar year.
Past Recipients
Explore previous recipients of the Gregory Kersten GDN Journal Best Paper Award.
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