2019
2019 Mini-Conference
Our mini-conference on "The Impact of Public Policy on Supply Chains" took place on Thursday May 2nd. Following lunch, we first had a keynote presentation by Çaglar Özden, who is the lead economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank.
We next had a panel session, moderated by Nitin R. Joglekar of Boston University with speakers:
• Sarah Campbell-Sengupta, St. Cloud State University
• David Dobrzykowski, Bowling Green State University
• Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois
• Richard McGrath Captain, U.S. Naval Academy
• Yung-Yi Nindorf, Verizon
Finally, we had an academic session of short presentations by:
• Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University
• H. Muge Yayla-Kullu, University of Central Florida
• Sarah Campbell-Sengupta, St. Cloud State University
In the evening, we had an enjoyable dinner at Mintwood Place Restaurant:
Note that the mini-conference was sponsored by the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Please find an announcement for their Call for Papers for the 2019 Emerging Discourse Incubator here.
Call for Papers for the 2019 Emerging Discourse Incubator
May 2nd 2019 College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition
This year Georgia Perakis from MIT with co-chairs Dorothee Honhon from the University of Texas at Dallas and Pelin Pekgün from the University of South Carolina chaired our Student Paper Competition. We received 38 papers. The papers were judged by 12 referees with two referees per paper. Note that MIT-affiliated papers were handled by the competition co-chairs and judged by non-MIT affiliated referees to avoid any conflicts of interest. Based on the referee evaluations, six finalists were chosen. These finalists were invited to present their paper at two sessions at the POMS Annual Conference in Washington, DC. Each paper was allotted 20 minutes for the presentation, followed by a 10-minute Q&A session in front of a jury. Presentation quality was taken into account to decide the first and second prize winners, which were announced at the business meeting on Saturday May 4th. The jury was composed of Basak Kalkanci, Ken Moon, Pelin Pekgün, Morvarid Rahmani, Wei Sun and Sean Willems.
All six finalists were awarded up to $500 of support for out-of-pocket expenses and complementary conference registration for the 2019 Annual POMS conference.
The first prize, which was accompanied by a $600 honorarium, was awarded to Tamar Cohen-Hillel and Lennart Baardman from MIT for their paper entitled " Detecting Customer Trends for Optimal Promotion Targeting ", co-written with their advisor Georgia Perakis (MIT Sloan School of Management), and Setareh Borjian Boroujeni and Kiran Panchamgam (Oracle Corporation).
The second prize, which was accompanied by a $300 honorarium, was awarded to two finalists this time:
Aravind Govindarajan from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor for his paper entitled " Distribution-free Inventory Risk Pooling in Multilocation Newsvendor ", co-written with advisor Joline Uichanco, and Amitbh Sinha (Amazon.com), and Amrita Kundu from London Business School for her paper entitled " Disruptions, Resilience and Performance of Emerging Market Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Uganda ", co-written with advisor Kamalini Ramdas, and Stephen J. Anderson (Stanford University)
Honorary mentions, accompanied by a $100 prize, were given to the three remaining finalists:
Harish Guda, University of Texas at Dallas: "An Economic Analysis of Agricultural Support Prices in Developing Economies"
Advisor: Milind Dawande
Divya Singhvi, MIT: "Sequential Learning of Product Recommendations with Customer Disengagement"
Advisor: Georgia Perakis
Qinshen Tang, National University of Singapore: "Joint Pricing and Production: A Fusion of Machine Learning and Robust Optimization"
Advisor: Melvyn Sim
2019 Business Meeting
Our annual business meeting took place on Saturday May 4th. You can download the slides from the presentation here.
2019 POMS College of Supply Chain Management Mini-Conference
The POMS College of Supply Chain Management is proud to announce its 2019 Mini-Conference that will take place in Washington Hilton on Thursday May 2rd, 2019 (the day before the main POMS Conference starts). The theme for the 2019 Mini-Conference is "The Impact of Public Policy on Supply Chains." Our program features a great line-up of academic and industry speakers from the World Bank, Verizon, Boston University, St. Cloud State University, Bowling Green State University, University of Illinois, U.S. Naval Academy, University of Central Florida and Arizona State University.
The agenda is planned as follows:
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:15pm Keynote presentation
2:15-2:30pm Coffee break
2:30-4:00pm Panel session
4:00-4:15pm Coffee break
4:15-5:15pm Academic session
5:15-6:00pm Mentoring session
6:00-7:30pm Reception
7:30-10:00pm Dinner
Participation in these events (including the dinner) requires registration for the mini-conference, which can be obtained via the POMS conference website (at the same time or separately at a later time from the registration to the main conference): https://pomsmeetings.org/conf-2019/. On-site registration is also possible.
We look forward to seeing you all in Washington DC!
