Bhavani Shanker Uppari

Past Awards

2024
Best OM Paper in Operations Research Award: Winner(s)
MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management : Winner(s)
Junior Faculty Forum Paper Competition: Second Place
Winning material: Designing Payment Models for the Poor
MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award: Winner(s)


2022
Best Working Paper: Winner(s)
Winning material: Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis


2021
Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award: Winner(s)
Winning material: Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda
Best Cluster Paper Award: Finalist
Winning material: Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda


2020
Decision Analysis Practice Award: Finalist
Winning material: Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda
Best Working Paper Award: Honorable Mention
Winning material: Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda


2018
MSOM Student Paper Competition: Second Place
Winning material: Inconvenience, Liquidity Constraints, and the Adoption of Off-Grid Lighting Solutions


2017
Best Working Paper Award: Second Place
Winning material: Modeling Newsvendor Behavior: A Prospect Theory Approach
DAS Student Paper Award: Winner(s)


2016
Best Student Paper Award: Runner-Up
Winning material: “Business Models for Off-Grid Energy Access at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Working Paper”