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Winners of the 2023 POMS College of SCM Best Student Paper Competition

The organizing committee received 36 submissions for the 2023 POMS College of Supply Chain Management (SCM) Student Paper Competition. We thank all the participants for their submissions. We used a two-round process to select the winners for the competition. In the first round, each submission was evaluated by multiple reviewers who were experts in the paper's subject matter. A total of four finalists were selected based on these evaluations. In the second round, each of the four finalists gave a paper presentation at a special session of the 2023 POMS Annual Conference, and their papers and presentation were evaluated by a jury of four faculty members. 

We congratulate the winners of this year's competition and thank all the first-round reviewers and the jury members whose names are attached at the end of this announcement for their service.

First Place (accompanied by a $500 honorarium): 
Audrey Bazerghi (Northwestern University): Last Time Buys during Product Rollovers: Manufacturer and Supplier Equilibria (joint work with Jan A. Van Mieghem)

Second Place (accompanied by a $250 honorarium): 
Keno Theile (Kühne Logistics University): Supply Chain Risk and Resolution: An Empirical Study of Stock Market Reactions (joint work with Christian Hofer, Vinod R. Singhal, and Kai Hoberg)

Two Honorable Mentions (accompanied by a $100 honorarium): 
Ragip Gurlek (Emory University): How Much did Store Closures Boost Online Sales during COVID-19? (joint work with Diwas S. KC and Paolo Letizia)

Leann Thayaparan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): UMOTEM: Upper Bounding Method for Optimizing over Tree Ensemble Models and its Applications in Pricing and Supply Chain (joint work with Georgia Perakis)

1st-round Reviewers: Jiaru Bai, Robert Bray, Junyu Cao, George Chen, Wang Chi Cheung, So Yeon Chun, Yao Cui, Fei Gao, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Gupta, Bin Hu, Dan Iancu, Aditya Jain, Michael Kim, Guangwen Kong, Stanley Lim, Sheng Liu, Mengshi Lu, Vidya Mani, Sami Najafi, Karthik Natarajan, Jie Ning, Wei Qi, Nikos Trichakis, Joline Uichanco, Iris Wang, Shouqiang Wang, Yimin Wang, Yehua Wei, Jing Wu, Yuqian Xu, Luyi Yang, Safak Yucel.

2nd-round Jury Members: Jan Fransoo, Joel Goh, Lauren Lu, Nicholas Petruzzi.

 

Winners of the 2022 POMS College of SCM Best Student Paper Competition

This year, the award committee received 52 submissions for the 2022 POMS College of Supply Chain Management (SCM) Student Paper Competition. We thank all the participants. We used a two-round process to select the winners for the competition. In the first round, each submission was evaluated by multiple reviewers who were experts in the topic and four finalists were selected. Then, a jury formed by four faculty members selected the winners based on evaluation of the finalists' papers and their presentations at the POMS Annual Conference this past weekend.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the competition below and thank all the first-round reviewers and the jury members whose names are attached at the end of this announcement for their service.

Winner (accompanied by a $1,000 honorarium)

Eryn Juan He (National University of Singapore): Profit or Growth? Dynamic Order Allocation in a Hybrid Workforce (joint work with Joel Goh)

Runner-up (accompanied by a $500 honorarium)

Cungen Zhu (National University of Singapore): Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications (joint work with Chen Jin and Luyi Yang)

Honorable Mentions (accompanied by a $200 honorarium)

Felicia Saiah (Hanken School of Economics, Finland): Process modularity, supply chain responsiveness, and moderators: The Medecins Sans Frontieres response to the COVID-19 pandemic (joint work with Diego Vega, Harwin de Vries and Joakim Kembro)
Xiaoyu Wang (Washington University in St. Louis): The Value of Smart Contract in Trade Finance (joint work with Fasheng Xu)

1st-round Reviewers:
Elodie Adida, Yasin Alan, Saed Alizamir, Mehmet Altug, Karthik Balasubramanian, Sree Bhaskaran, Oguz Cetin, Boxiao (Beryl) Chen, George Chen, Vivek Choudhary, Yao Cui, Suvrat Dhanorkar, Fei Gao, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Luyi Gui, Parshuram Hotkar, Bin Hu, Dan Iancu, Aditya Jain, Evgeny Kagan, Guoming Lai, Michael Lim, Nan Liu, Sheng Liu, Vidya Mani, Vishwakant Malladi, Leela Nageswaran, Sami Najafi, Heikki Peura, Wei Qi, Sandeep Rath, Cong Shi, Divya Singhvi, Fehmi Tanrisever, Nikos Trichakis, Danko Turcic, Joline Uichanco, Iris Wang, Rowan Wang, Ruxian Wang, Mike Wei, Yehua Wei, Jiahua Wu, Yuqian Xu, Luyi Yang,
Ozge Yapar, Safak Yucel, Dennis Zhang

2nd-round Jury Members:
Sripad Devalkar, Cuihong Li, Lauren Lu, Ozge Sahin
Best,
Shiliang (John) Cui & Sripad Devalkar
Competition Co-Chairs

 

2021 College of Supply Chain Management Student Paper Competition Results

The POMS College of Supply Chain Management would like to thank all the participants of 2021 Best Student Paper Competition. This year, we had a very strong pool of 59 submissions. Each paper was sent to three reviewers from a pool of 53 judges. Note that the competition co-chairs did not handle the papers which they have conflict of interests. Based on the referee evaluations, we selected six finalist papers. These finalists were invited to present their paper at one of the two sessions at the virtual POMS Annual Conference. Each paper was allotted 15 minutes for the presentation, followed by a 5-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 May 4th, 2021.

First Prize ($1000):

Maya Ganesh (Indian School of Business)
Paper Title: Leveraging Digital Technology to Improve Monitoring and Planning in Public Sector Supply
Chains: Evidence from India's Food Security Program
Co-Authors: Sarang Deo and Sripad Devalkar

Second Prize ($500):

Elisabeth Paulson (MIT)
Paper Title: Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Cost and Waste in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty
Co-Authors: Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis

Honorable Mentions ($200), in no specific order:

1.Christina Imdahl (Kuehne Logistics University)

Paper Title: Targeted Automation of Order Decisions Using Machine Learning
Co-Authors: Kai Hoberg and William Schmidt

2.Hongseok Jang (University of Florida)

Paper Title: Store Brand Introduction and Multilateral Contracting
Co-Authors: Quan Zheng and Xiajun Amy Pan

3.Amandeep Singh (Wharton)

Paper Title: Fulfillment by Platform: Antitrust and Upstream Market Power
Co-Authors: Jiding Zhang, Senthil Veeraraghavan, Pavithra Harsha and Ashish Jagmohan

4.Sahar Hemmati (University of Maryland)

Paper Title: Contingent Free Shipping: Drivers of Bubble Purchases
Co-Authors: Wedad Elmaghraby, Ashish Kabra, and Nitish Jain

Congratulations to all!

We extend our special thanks to the judges

Jury members:
Felipe Caro (UCLA)
Nicole Dehoratius (University of Chicago)
Dorothee Honhon (University of Texas at Dallas)
Lauren Lu (Dartmouth College)

First Round Referees List:
Adam Elmachtoub (Columbia University)
Alan Wan (City University of Hong Kong)
Ana Muriel (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Andrew Davis (Cornell University)
Arcan Nalca (Queen's University)
Bin Hu (University of Texas at Dallas)
Bogdan Bichescu (University of Tennessee)
Ching Piaw Teo (National University of Singapore)
Chris Parker (American University)
Cong Shi (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Dan Andrei Lancu (Stanford University)
Eda Kemahlioglu Ziya (NC State University)
Enno Siemsen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Felipe Caro (UCLA)
Fuqiang Zhang (Washington University)
Greys Sosic (University of Southern California)
Haoying Sun (University of Kentucky)
Harish Krishnan (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia)
Joann de Zegher (MIT)
John V Gray (Ohio State University)
Jordan Tong (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Karen Donohue (University of Minnesota)
Karen Zheng (MIT)
Karthik Natarajan (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Man Yu (HKUST)
Meng Li (Rutgers University)
Ming Hu (University of Toronto)
Nikolay Osadchiy (Emory University)
Nikos Trichakis (MIT)
Nitish Jain (London Business School)
Onur Boyabatli (Singapore Management University)
Ozge Sahin (Johns Hopkins University)
Quan Zheng (University of Science and Technology of China)
Rachel Chen (University of California at Davis)
Rachel Zhang (Hog Kong University of Science and Technology)
Ravi Subramanian (Georgia Tech)
Sammi Tang (University of Miami)
Saurabh Bansal (Penn state)
Shuya Yin (University of California Irvine)
Soo-Haeng Cho (Carnegie Mellon University)
Sripad K Devalkar (Indian School of Business)
Suresh Muthulingam (Pennsylvania State University)
Tharanga Rajapakshe (University of Florida)
Weiming Zhu (IESE Business School)
Wenqiang Xiao (New York University)
William Schmidt (Cornell University)
Wolfram Wiesemann (Imperial College Business School)
Xiang Fang (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Xiuli He (UNC Charlotte)
Yiangos Papanastasiou (UC Berkeley)
Yimin Wang (Arizona State University)
Ying-Ju Chen (HKUST)
Zumbul Atan (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Retsef Levi
Co-Chair of the 2020 Student paper competition of the POMS college of Supply Chain Management
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: retsef@mit.edu

Xiajun Amy Pan
VP of special events for the POMS College of Supply Chain Management and
Co-Chair of the 2020 Student paper competition of the POMS college of Supply Chain Management
Warrington College of Business
University of Florida
Email: amypan@ufl.edu