Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the 2021 INFORMS Behavioral OM Best Working Paper Award committee, it is my pleasure to announce the winners and finalists of this year's competition. Please join us in congratulating the following authors:
- First place: Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making? – by Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, and Park Sinchaisri.
- Second place: On Customer (Dis)honesty in Priority Queues: The Role of Lying Aversion – by Rouba Ibrahim, Arturo Estrada Rodriguez, Dongyuan Zhan.
- Honorable mentions:
- Wage Transparency, Negotiation, and Reference-dependent Utility – by Hengchen Dai, Xiaoyang Long, and Dennis Zhang.
- To Earmark or Not to Earmark? The Role of Control, Transparency, Salience and Warm-Glow – by Özalp Özer, Gloria Urrea, and Sebastian Villa.
- Delay Information in Virtual Queues: A Large-Scale Field Experiment on a Major Ride-Sharing Platform – by Qiuping Yu, Yiming Zhang, and Yong-Pin Zhou.
We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all authors and judges who participated in this year's competition. We received a total of 59 working papers, which were evaluated by more than 60 judges.
Sincerely,
León Valdés (2021 Awards Chair)
James Fan (2021 Committee Member and 2020 Chair)
Andrew Davis (2021 Honorary Committee Member)
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Leon Valdes
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA
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