Society For Marketing Science Awards:
Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award
John D. C. Little Award
Gary L. Lilien MSI/ISMS Practice Prize
ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition
Fellow Award
Long Term Impact Award
Buck Weaver Award
Other Awards:
Gil Churchill Award
AMA-MRSIG Don Lehmann Award
V. “Seenu” Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Methodology
Call for Nominations 2020 Buck Weaver Award
The Buck Weaver Award is given annually by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS). The award honors distinguished scholars and practitioners who have excelled in the achievement of rigor and relevance in marketing science. The award is not restricted to ISMS members. Previous winners include Paul Green, Vince Barabba (Head of US Census, previous Head of Marketing Research at Kodak and General Motors), Gerald Zaltman, John Little, David Aaker, Jerry Wind, Don Lehmann, Magid Abraham (co-founder of ComScore), Glen Urban, John Hauser, V. Srinivasan, Dominique Hanssens, Steven Cohen (Founding Partner, In4mation Insights), Gary Lilien, John Roberts and Michel Wedel.
The selection committee is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Buck Weaver Award.
The committee, constituted as per the awards protocol, consists of: Deepa Chandrasekaran (Secretary ISMS, Chair), Fred Feinberg (Past President ISMS), Dominique Hanssens (Past Winner), Koen Pauwels (VP of Practice ISMS), and Phil Leslie (Chief Digital Economist and Vice President, Amazon).
The criteria for the award are as follows:
- Lifetime contribution to theory and practice in the development of rigor and relevance in marketing science.
- Evidence of theory contribution can include scholarly publication as well as being a catalyst for the generation of scholarly work.
- Evidence of practice contribution can include an important role in implementing marketing science in practice.
Nominations are encouraged from ISMS members as well as from members of the selection committee and should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the Secretary of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (see name and email below) before midnight EST March 1, 2020. The nomination must be for an individual. Nominations for considering more than one person jointly are not permissible. The nomination must include a brief justification (150 words or fewer) that highlights the relevant achievements of the nominee. To be consistent with the award protocol, nominations for the 2020 award cannot be accepted after March 1, 2020.
Deepa Chandrasekaran
Associate Professor of Marketing
College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: deepa.chandrasekaran@utsa.edu
The winner of the 2020 Buck Weaver Award will be selected by the end of April 2020 and the award will be presented at the 2020 Marketing Science Conference. It will also be announced on the INFORMS Society of Marketing website and in the Newsletter.
Call for Nominations: 2020 Long Term Impact Award
The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award (LTI Award) is given annually to a marketing paper published in Marketing Science, or Management Science, or another INFORMS journal, that is viewed to have made a significant long run impact on the field of Marketing. The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Advisory Board is accepting nominations for the 2020 Long Term Impact Award.
To be eligible, a paper should have been published between six and ten years before the year in which the award is presented. For example, for the presentation year 2020, the paper should have been published sometime in the years 2010 and 2014. Eligible papers are original research articles and research commentaries. Editorials, Database articles, Practice prize articles, Review articles, Invited articles, and Invited commentaries are not eligible. For the 2020 award, the papers are:
(1) all eligible papers published in Marketing Science between 2010 and 2014,
(2) all eligible papers published in Management Science between 2010 and 2014 that were handled by a Department Editor for Marketing or that use "marketing" as a key word, or
(3) Any other eligible paper published in an INFORMS journal between 2010 and 2014 that is nominated by an ISMS member other than the author(s) of the paper being nominated.
Authors of papers in categories (1) and (2) do not need to nominate their papers; they will be considered automatically. Thus most of the papers eligible for the award will qualify automatically, and no response to this notice is required for these. This notice is relevant only for papers in category (3).
Any paper in category (3) from an INFORMS journal can be nominated by an ISMS member other than the author(s) of the paper. The nominating member must communicate this desire via e-mail to the Secretary of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Society before midnight EST March 1, 2020 (see name and email below). The nomination must include a brief justification (150 words or fewer) addressing the paper’s impact on the field. Some possible measures of impact are magnitude of subsequent work that builds on the paper, use in PhD reading lists and seminars, applications to practice, and use in MBA teaching. The letter might explain how the paper shows the field something that it did not know before, shows a new way of thinking about a problem or issue, and/or opens up a new field of inquiry.
The nomination must be sent electronically in PDF format and it must include the complete bibliographic citation. To be consistent with the award protocol, nominations cannot be accepted after March 1, 2020.
Deepa Chandrasekaran
Associate Professor of Marketing
College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: deepa.chandrasekaran@utsa.edu
The winner of the 2020 Long Term Impact Award will be announced at the 2020 Marketing Science Conference, on the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science website, and in the Newsletter.
Call for Nominations: 2019 Frank M. Bass Award
The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Advisory Board is accepting nominations for the 2019 Frank M. Bass award. The Bass Award is given to the best marketing paper derived from a Ph.D. thesis published in an INFORMS-sponsored journal according to the following eligibility requirements:
- The paper must have appeared in an INFORMS journal within the two years and three months preceding the nomination deadline, and
- The paper must have been accepted for publication within five years from the date the thesis was finally approved.
- In the case of multiple authors, nomination implies that the Ph.D. recipient made the primary contribution to the publication. The Ph.D. advisor nominating the paper should certify that the Ph.D. recipient made the primary contribution to the paper. Further, either the Ph.D. recipient should be the first author or authorship should be in alphabetical order.
Eligible papers for the 2019 Bass Award are those appearing in INFORMS journals between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. A paper can be nominated at most twice (in two successive years) and an individual can win this award only once. If you want to be sure that the nomination will be considered, we strongly suggest that nominations be submitted by the thesis advisor.
The nominating letter must include the title of the paper, name of the student, names of co-authors (if any), name of the degree-granting institution, date thesis was finally approved, members of the thesis committee, and complete reference citation for the article. The nomination packet must also include the abstract that appeared when the paper was published. All material must be sent electronically in PDF format.
Please submit nominations via e-mail to the Secretary of the INFORMS Marketing Science Society before midnight EST on March 1, 2020 (see name and email below). To be consistent with the award protocol, nominations for the 2019 award cannot be accepted after March 1, 2020.
Deepa Chandrasekaran
Associate Professor of Marketing
College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: deepa.chandrasekaran@utsa.edu
The winner of the 2019 Bass Award will be announced at the 2020 Marketing Science Conference, on the INFORMS Society of Marketing website, and in the Newsletter.
Call for Nominations: 2019 John D. C. Little Award
The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Advisory Board is accepting nominations for the 2019 John D. C. Little award. The John D. C. Little award is given annually to the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science, Management Science, or another INFORMS journal. Eligible papers are original research articles and commentaries. Editorials, Database articles, Practice prize articles, Review articles, Invited articles, and Invited commentaries are not eligible. For the 2019 award the papers are:
(1) all eligible papers published in Marketing Science in 2019,
(2) all eligible papers published in Management Science in 2019 that were handled by a Department Editor for Marketing or that use "marketing" as a key word, or
(3) any eligible paper published in Management Science or another INFORMS journal during 2019 and nominated by its authors.
Authors of papers in categories (1) and (2) do not need to nominate their papers; they will be considered automatically.
Any 2019 eligible paper from Management Science that does not qualify under category (2), or any 2019 eligible paper from another INFORMS journal, can be included in the balloting if the author communicates this desire to the Secretary of the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science via e-mail before midnight EST on March 1, 2020 (see name and email below). The nomination must be sent electronically and include the complete bibliographic citation in PDFformat. To be consistent with the award protocol, nominations for the 2019 award cannot be accepted after March 1, 2020.
Deepa Chandrasekaran
Associate Professor of Marketing
College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio
Email: deepa.chandrasekaran@utsa.edu
The winner of the 2019 Little Award will be announced at the 2020 Marketing Science Conference, on the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science website, and in the Newsletter.
Call for Nominations: The 2022 Gary L. Lilien ISMS-MSI-EMAC Practice Prize Competition
The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) solicits entries for the 2022 Practice Prize Competition, the culmination of which will take place at the:
2022 ISMS Marketing Science Conference
Goal: The goal of the Practice Prize is to highlight and celebrate outstanding marketing science work that has had significant organizational impact.
Prize Committee: The Prize Committee will be chaired by Professor Koen Pauwels (Vice
President Practice, ISMS).
Eligibility: The Practice Prize is awarded for outstanding implementation of marketing science
concepts and methods. The methods used must be innovative, sound, and appropriate to the
problem and organization, and the work should have had significant, verifiable, and preferably
quantitative impact on the performance of the client organization. Historically, two types of
entries have been recognized: (1) a history of successful applications across time and/or
organizations and (2) a single, impactful application. For the latter type of entry, the work
should normally be completed within the five-year period prior to the year of the competition:
work done between July 2016 and June 2021 will be eligible to enter the 2022 competition.
Prior publication of the work does not disqualify it, and several past finalists and winners were
published before the prize. Anyone is eligible to enter except members of the judging committee.
Entry and Details: Entrants must submit:
- a 500-1000 word Abstract of the work, and
- An Impact Statement, a supplementary summary of what was accomplished and its organizational impact in enough detail (normally 500-1000 words) to judge the appropriateness of the work for the competition.
- Supplementary technical material that provides sufficient technical detail to permit the Prize Committee to judge the technical merit of the work.
Three or four competition finalists will be selected from amongst the entries.
Finalists will present their work at the ISMS Marketing Science Conference and the judging will take place immediately thereafter. The winner (or, in unusual circumstances, winners) will be announced at the Conference. Finalists will have the right to submit their work to Marketing Science in the Practice Prize submission category.
For a summary of some previous Finalists see Lilien, Roberts and Shankar (Marketing Science 32.2 (2013): 229-245).
Timetable
1. Send your drafts for feedback*: Starting October 14, 2020 till December 31, 2021
2. Submissions due: January 8, 2022
3. Finalists notified: February 15, 2022
4. Finalist Papers due: April 15, 2022
5. Feedback on final submissions: May 16, 2022
6. Presentations at the 2022 ISMS
Marketing Science Conference June 2022
*Note: Where desired, the Chair of the committee will help guide potential entrants on how to develop the most compelling and rigorous entry, how to obtain client support and endorsement or address any other questions they might have.
Examples: To view presentations from past finalists and winners, see https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrS2aW6TiebaWVMjGGFH8oQ/featured
Published articles of previous finalists can be found in various issues of Marketing Science.
Direct questions about the process or eligibility to the Chair of the Practice Prize Competition (kpauwels@northeastern.edu) and Gary Lilien (Glilien@psu.edu). If you feel as though you have an impactful piece of research in an industry setting but are uncertain if it is appropriate to the Prize, please do not hesitate to contact me or Gary.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Koen Pauwels
Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University
ISMS Vice President – Practice
January 2019
Other Awards:
MR SIG – Gerard J. Tellis selected as the winner of the 2019 Gilbert A. Churchill Award
The Marketing Research SIG Award Committee has selected Gerard J. Tellis as the recipient of the 2019 Churchill Award for Lifetime Contributions to Marketing Research.
The Churchill award recognizes an individual’s contribution to marketing research including new methodologies, seminal publications, books, awards and other notable contributions. A panel of past winners of the Churchill award and current and past editors/co-editors of the Journal of Marketing and Journal of Marketing Research selected the winner.
Professor Gerard J. Tellis is the Neely Chair of American Enterprise, Professor, and Director of USC Marshall Center for Global Innovation at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He has published numerous articles and received over 21,000 citations (via Google Scholar) and made important methodological contributions to the field of marketing research in the areas of synthetic control, latent Dirichlet allocation, functional analysis, and archival analysis. His research has been creative in showing the power of social media, market pioneering, incumbent’s curse, technological innovation, innovation of nations, and advertising effectiveness.
Tellis’ contribution to marketing research has been extensive, impactful, and widely recognized. Currently, Tellis serves on the editorial boards of several premier journals in Marketing, was an Associate Editor at Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science, and is a Fellow of the following academies: AMA, ISMS, ISBM, Sydney Sussex College.
Congratulations to Professor Tellis!
Professor Tellis will be recognized at the MR SIG reception and award ceremony during 2019 Summer AMA Conference in Chicago. MR SIG welcomes you to the reception.
Praveen K. Kopalle
Chair, MR SIG
MR SIG – Courtney Paulson’s and Amalesh Sharma’s Dissertation-based Articles Win 2019 Don Lehmann Award
A three member committee, consisting of a previous JMR Editor and two other world renowned marketing scholars, has selected Courtney Paulson’s and Amalesh Sharma’s dissertation-based articles as co-winners of 2019 Don Lehmann Award, and the Runners-Up are Xian Gu, Carl-Philip Ahlbom, and Sherry Wang. Courtney is Assistant Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and Amalesh is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. Xian is a doctoral candidate, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Carl-Philip is a Prize Fellow at the University of Bath, and Sherry is doctoral candidate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The complete citations of the articles are as follows.
Co-Winners:
Courtney Paulson, Lan Luo, and Gareth M. James (2018), “Efficient Large-Scale Media Selection Optimization for Online Display Advertising,” Journal of Marketing Research, 55(4), 489-506.
Sharma, Amalesh, Alok R. Saboo, and V. Kumar (2018). Investigating the Influence of Characteristics of the New Product Introduction Process on Firm Value: The Case of the Pharmaceutical Industry. Journal of Marketing, 82(5), 66-85.
Runners Up:
Gu, Xian, P. K. Kannan, and Liye Ma (2018), “Selling the Premium in Freemium,” Journal of Marketing,” 82 (6), 10-27.
Grewal, Dhruv, Carl-Philip Ahlbom, Lauren Beitelspacher, Stephanie M. Noble, and Jens Nordfält (2018), “In-Store Mobile Phone Use and Customer Shopping Behavior: Evidence from the Field,” Journal of Marketing, 82(4), 102-126.
Wang, Sherry Shi and Ralf van der Lans (2018), “Modeling Gift Choice: The Effect of Uncertainty on Price Sensitivity,” Journal of Marketing Research, 55(4), p. 524-540.
The Lehmann Award, established in 1997 in honor of Prof. Donald R. Lehmann, Professor of Marketing at Columbia University recognizes the Best Dissertation-based Article published in the Journal of Marketing or Journal of Marketing Research. This annual award is nominated by any member of the academic community and voted on by the Marketing Research SIG Awards Committee. This year’s committee received a number of excellent nominations, resulting in a tough competitive pool.
The winners and runners up will be recognized at the MR SIG reception and award ceremony during 2018 Summer AMA Conference in Chicago. MR SIG welcomes you to the reception.
Praveen K. Kopalle
Chair, MR SIG
Previous AMA-MRSIG Don Lehmann Award Winners
2018 – Daniel McCarthy, Peter S. Fader, and Bruce G.S. Hardie
2017 – (Joint Winners) Sarang Sunder, V. Kumar, Yi Zhao AND Anindita Chakravarty, Rajdeep Grewal
2016 – (Joint Winners) V. Kumar, Xi (Alan) Zhang, Anita Luo AND Valeria Stourm, Eric T. Bradlow, Peter S. Fader
2015 - Seshadri Tirunillai, Gerard J. Tellis
2014 – Anita Luo, V. Kumar
2013 – (Joint Winners) Sanjay Puligadda, Bill Ross, Rajdeep Grewal AND Oliver Rutz, Randy Bucklin
2012 – Andrew Stephen, Oliver Toubia
2011 – Michael Trusov, Anand Bodapati, Randy Bucklin
2010 – Andrew Petersen, V. Kumar
2009 – Lan Luo, P.K. Kannan, Brian Ratchford
2008 – Joseph Pancras, K. Sudhir
2007 – Debora V. Thompson, Rebecca Hamilton, Roland Rust
2005 – Rajkumar Venkatesan, V. Kumar
2004 – Peter Verhoef
2003 – Kay Lemon, Tiffany White, Russ Winer
2002 – Vanitha Swaminathan, Richard Fox, Srinivas Reddy
2001 – (Joint Winners) Werner Reinartz, V. Kumar AND Sanjeev Varki, Bruce Cooil, Roland Rust
2000 – Venkatesh Shankar, Greg Carpenter, Lakshman Krishnaurthi
1999 – K. Sivakumar, S.P. Raj
1998 – Adam Finn, Ujwal Kayande
1997 – V. Seenu Srinivasan, Chan Su Park
MR SIG – Eric Schwartz wins 2019 V. “Seenu” Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing
A three member committee of world renowned senior marketing scholars, all of whom are winners of several awards including the Gilbert Churchill award for lifetime contributions to development of marketing research, has unanimously selected Eric Schwartz as the winner of 2019 V. “Seenu” Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing. Eric is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at The Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
The award is facilitated by the generosity of Stanford University, University of Memphis, and Friends of Seenu Srinivasan in honor of V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, Adams Distinguished Professor of Management Emeritus at Stanford University. The purpose of the award is to encourage and reward research on new quantitative and empirical methodologies that are of interest to both academics and practitioners of marketing as opposed to qualitative methodologies, or those restricted to use in lab experiment settings. A young scholar eligible for this award should have received a marketing (or related) doctoral degree no more than six years prior to the receipt of the award. This annual award is associated with a specific body of work which is either published or accepted for publication in scholarly journal(s) including, but not limited to, the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, Quantitative Marketing & Economics, and International Journal of Research in Marketing.
According to the nomination(s) of the winner,
“Eric is emerging as a research star, fusing cutting-edge statistical and machine learning models with experiments that adapt to incoming data. His work has already garnered wide praise both within the profession and beyond: his article on “Customer acquisition via Display Advertising using Multi-Armed Bandit experiments” received the most recent John Little Best Paper Award, he was named a 2019 MSI Young Scholar, and received UMich-Ross’ 2018 Junior Faculty Award for Outstanding Research. Especially notable is his work developing stochastic sampling and optimization models to help city officials remediate the Flint Water Crisis, earning national media attention and a Federal Court ruling mandating the use of his algorithms.”
The winner will be recognized at the MR SIG reception and award ceremony during 2019 Summer AMA Conference in Chicago. MR SIG welcomes you to the reception.
Praveen K. Kopalle
Chair, MR SIG
Previous Srinivasan Award Winners
2018 – Pinar Yildirim, University of Pennsylvania