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Student Paper Competition

The College of Supply Chain Management of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) sponsors a Student Paper Competition. Each paper is judged based on its contribution towards advancement of theory and practice of supply chain management.

This year's winners were announced at our Monday evening dinner at Dell (Austin TX).

First Place - Marcelo Olivares, Wharton
Second Place - Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, Northwestern

The winners were chosen based on the presentations of the four finalists:

Saravanan Kesavan, Harvard
Incorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting.

Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu, Northwestern
Multi-market Facility Network Design with Offshoring Applications

Marcelo Olivares, Wharton
Competing retailers and inventory: An empirical investigation of U.S. automobile dealerships

Zhengliang Xue, Duke
Joint Demand and Inventory Management for Substitutable Products: Normative Analysis under Choice Models


Organizers:
Jay Swaminathan, Univ. of North Carolina – Paper Chair
M. Eric Johnson, Tuck School - Presentation Chair
Judges (paper): Hyun-Soo Ahn, University of Michigan; Dan Corsten, London Business School; Wedad J. Elmaghraby, Univ. of Maryland; Jan Fransoo, Eindhoven; Ram Ganeshan, William and Mary; Vishal Gaur, New York Univ; Joseph Geunes, Univ. of Florida; Steve Gilbert, Univ of Texas; Albert Ha, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya, Univ. of North Carolina; Adam Mersereau, Chicago; Serguei Netessine, Wharton; Ali Parlakturk, Univ. of North Carolina; R. Canan Savaskan-Ebert, Northwestern; Alan Andrew Scheller-Wolf; Carnegie Mellon; Hans Sebastian (Seb) Heese, Indiana; Kevin Shang, Duke; Doug Thomas, Penn State University; Zeynep Ton, Harvard; Rachel Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Judges (presentation) Kyle Cattani, Indiana; Martha Cooper, Ohio State Univ; Jan Fransoo, Eindhoven; Katariina Kemppainen, Erasmus University; Rene de Koster, Erasmus University; Daniel Guide, Penn State; Aleda Roth, Clemson; Vinod Singhal, Georgia Tech Luk van Wassenhove, INSEAD; Ari Vepsäläinen, HSE; Chris Voss, London Business School

Background on Award

There are four conditions for eligibility:
1. Entrant must have been a student within a year of the spring conference. Only one entry can be submitted by an entrant. 2. The submitted paper must present original research conducted primarily by the entrant. Some assistance by other individuals (such as the student’s faculty advisor) is permitted as long as the student is at least the “first author” on the paper in principle. This should be reflected in the advisor’s letter. 3. The research must have been conducted while the entrant was a student. 4. The topic of the paper should fall within the scope of supply chain management, including: · Inventory management · Supply chain coordination · Integrated supply chain planning · Sourcing relationships and strategy · Supply chain design and facility location · Organization of the supply chain function · Managing product variety in supply chains · Coordination of product and supply chain design · The role of information technology in supply chain coordination · Logistics, order fulfillment and distribution · Supply chain risk management · Channel management. See www.poms.org/Journal.html for a more detailed description of the supply chain area within Production and Operations Management. Four finalists are invited to present their paper in a special session at the POMS annual conference. Presentation quality is also taken into account to decide the first and second prizes. The first prize is accompanied by a $500 honorarium and the second prize is accompanied by a $250 honorarium. In addition, all finalists are awarded up to $500 of travel support and complementary conference registration for the POMS conference. All prizes are awarded at the POMS SC College Meeting.





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posted by EricJohnson   Jun 9 2007, 5:06 PM EDT
Marcelo Olivares Paper - First Prize
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posted by EricJohnson   Jun 9 2007, 5:05 PM EDT
Lauren Lu - Second Prize
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Zhengliang Xue Paper - Finalist
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posted by EricJohnson   Jun 4 2007, 2:03 PM EDT
Saravanan Kesavan Paper - Finalist
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