Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award

2024 Winner(s)

Purpose of the Award

Starting 2016, the award is presented biennially to the manuscript deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of operations management published in the preceding four years in Operations Research. The editorial board of Operations Research selects the finalists through a voting process, and a dedicated committee determines the winners.

Information:

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Ioana Popescu, INSEAD
Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Runner-Up
Erin Serino, Boston Emergency Medical Services
James Salvia, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Justin Steil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laura Segal, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Mark Brennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sophia Dyer, Boston Emergency Medical Services
2023
Winner(s)
Daniel Freund, Cornell University
David B Shmoys, Cornell University
Shane G. Henderson, Cornell University
Finalist
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Jake Feldman, Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Nannan Zhang, Alibaba
Ozan Candogan, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Xiaofei Liu , Alibaba
2021
Winner(s)
Cynthia Rudin, Duke University
David Simchi-Levi , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gah-Yi Ban, University of Maryland
He Wang, Georgia Tech
Kris Ferreira, Harvard
Finalist
Ali Aouad, MIT
Amr Farahat, Cornell University
Daniel Zhuoyu Long, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jin Qi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Joonkyum Lee, Sogang University

Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xin Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2019
Winner(s)
Guillermo Gallego, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jose Blanchet, Columbia University
Vineet Goyal , Columbia University