2008 MSOM Student Paper Competition
2008 MSOM Student Paper Competition
Coordinator: Max Shen.
Awards to be announced at the MSOM business meeting at INFORMS 2008.
Results of the 2007 MSOM Student Paper Competition
First Prize
Tong Wang from INSEAD for the paper "Inventory Management with Advance Demand Information and Flexible Delivery" with primary advisor Beril Toktay from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Second Prize
Soo-Haeng Cho from the UCLA Anderson School of Management for the paper "The Optimal Composition of Influenza Vaccines Subject to Random Production Yields" with primary advisor Kevin McCardle from UCLA.
Finalists
Gongtao (Lucy) Chen from the National University of Singapore for the paper "The Impact of Financial Turbulence on Inventory Control" with primary advisor Lawrence Robinson from Cornell University;
Richard Lai from Harvard Business School for the paper "Inventory's Fiscal Year End Effect" with primary advisor Noel Watson from Harvard University;
Pamela Pen-Erh Pei from the MIT Operations Research Center for the paper "Towards a Unified Theory of Procurement Contract Design: Production Flexibility, Spot Market Trading and the Structure of Options Contracts" with primary advisor David Simchi-Levi from MIT;
Shanshan Hu from the University of Michigan for the paper "Price Dispersion in Electricity Auctions: Strategic Analysis and Economic Implications" with primary advisor Roman Kapuscinski from the University of Michigan.
