ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Optimal Comprehensible Targeting

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Regulating Data Usage

2024 Winner(s)

  • Mingyung Kim, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Winning material: An Integrative Solution for Data and Parameter Aggregation Problems in Marketing

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) is pleased to announce the ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Competition. This dissertation proposal competition will be held annually and will recognize the best doctoral dissertation proposals on important marketing issues and subjects! Through this Call for Dissertation Proposals, we seek proposals relevant to marketing science, theory, and practice.

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Malika Korganbekova, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mingyung Kim, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Walter Zhang, University of Chicago
Finalist
Fei Teng, Yale University
Henrique Laurino dos Santos, University of Pennsylvania
Ivan Li, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Samuel Levy, Carnegie Mellon University
2023
Winner(s)
George Z. Gui, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Lukas Jürgensmeier, Goethe University Frankfurt
Mohsen Foroughifar, University of Toronto
Rupali Kaul, Stanford University
2022
Winner(s)
Alexey Sinyashin, UC Berkeley
Runshan Fu, Carnegie Mellon University
Wei Lu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Zheng Gong, University of Toronto
Ziwei Cong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021
Winner(s)
Olivia Natan, Chicago
Piyush Anand, Cornell
2020
Winner(s)
Olivia Natan, Chicago
Piyush Anand, Cornell
2019
Winner(s)
Omid Rafieian , Cornell University
Tesary Lin , University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2018
Winner(s)
Hana Choi , Duke University
Mengxia Zhang, University of Southern California
Minkyung Kim, Yale School of Management
2017
Winner(s)
Minjung Kwon, NYU Stern
Ryan Dew, Columbia Business School
2016
Winner(s)
Navid Mojir, Yale School of Management
2015
Winner(s)
Anna Tuchman, Stanford University
Beth Fossen, Emory University
Chris Naiqing Gu, University of Chicago
Courtney Paulson, University of Southern California
Seoungwoo Lee, University of Maryland
2014
Winner(s)
Arun Gopalakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania
Ayelet Israeli, Northwestern University
Daniel Ringel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Shijie Lu, University of Southern California
Xiao Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
2013
Winner(s)
Clarence Lee, Harvard University
Ron Berman, University of California, Berkeley
Song Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012
Winner(s)
Eric Schwartz, Wharton School
Hye-jin Kim, Pennsylvania State University
Shubhranshu Singh, University of California-Berkeley
2011
Winner(s)
Doug J. Chung, Yale University
Jason M.T. Roos, Duke University
Navdeep Sahni, University of Chicago
2010
Winner(s)
Baojun Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
Masakazu Ishihara, University of Toronto
Pranav Jindal, University of Chicago