PITM - Winners of Previous Student Paper Competitions

2023
Winner: Tobias Lieberum (Technische Universität München)  "Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance”
Runner-Up:  Christian Kaps  (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania) "Privately-Owned Battery Storage – Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity”
Thank you to Panos Markou and Jochen Schlapp for organizing the 2023 PITM Best Student Paper Competition.

2020
Winners (two paper tied for the 2020 PITM Best Student Paper Competition):
Amandeep Singh  (Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania)  "When to be Agile: Ratings and Version Updates in Mobile Apps."
Puping Jiang  (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis) "Blockchain Adoption and Traceability in Food Supply Chain Networks."

2017
Winning: Murat Unal (Georgia Tech Scheller) "Help or Hindrance? The Role of Familiarity in Collaborative Product Development."
Runner-Up:  Evgeny Kagan (Michigan Ross) "Designing Incentives in Startup Teams: Form and Timing of Equity Contracting."

2015
Winner: Tian Heong Chan (INSEAD) "Styles in Product Design"
Runner-Up: Jochen Schlapp (University of Cambridge) "Resource Allocation Decisions under Imperfect Evaluation and Organizational Dynamics"

2013
Winner: Joel Wooten (University of South Carolina)  "The Impact of Visibility in Innovation Tournaments: Evidence from Field Experiments"
Runner-Up: Katrin Eling (Eindhoven University of Technology)  "Performance Effects of Combining Rational and Intuitive Approaches in Making Fuzzy Front End Execution Decisions"