Management Science Best Paper Award in Operations Management

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: The Distributional Impact of Fatigue on Performance

Purpose of the Award

Starting 2013, the award is given to the manuscript judged to be most deserving for its contribution to the theory and practice of operations management among all operations papers published in the past 3 years at Management Science. For each award, finalists were selected from among a set of nominated papers by the editorial board of Management Science, and the winners were selected by a vote of the society members.

Information:

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

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Past Awardees

2025
Winner(s)
Hessam Bavafa , University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
Winner(s)
Andrew Davis, Cornell University
Blair Flicker, University of South Carolina
Elena Katok, University of Texas-Dallas
Jordan Tong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kyle Hyndman, University of Texas-Dallas
Samantha M. Keppler , University of Michigan
Stephen Leider, University of Michigan
Xiaoyang Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2023
Winner(s)
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Jun Li, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
Finalist
A. Gürhan Kök, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University
Ashish Kabra, INSEAD
Elena Belavina, INSEAD, France
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
Henry Aspegren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Hongqiao Chen, School of Management & Engineering, Nanjing University
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester
Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France
Kevin Shang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Mark Weber , IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Owen Wu, Indiana University
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Yangfang (Helen) Zhou, Singapore Management University
2022
Winner(s)
Costas Courcoubetis , Singapore University of Technology and Design
Guangwen Kong , University of Minnesota
Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Xiang Li , University of Minnesota
Finalist
Achal Bassamboo, Northwestern University
Dennis Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis
Foad Iravani, Uber Freight
Gerry Tsoukalas, University of Pennsylvania & Boston University
Hamed Mamani, University of Washington
Henry Aspegren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jiri Chod, University of Rochester
Kostas Bimpikis, Stanford University
Mark Weber , IBM Research; MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Rahmi İlkılıç, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
Saed Alizamir, School of Management, Yale University
Shayan Ehsani, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
2021
Winner(s)
A. Gürhan Kök, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koç University
Kevin Shang, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Safak Yucel, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Finalist
Antonio Moreno, Harvard Business School
Ashish Kabra, INSEAD
David Bell, Idea Farm Ventures
Elena Belavina, INSEAD, France
Karan Girotra, INSEAD, France
Santiago Gallino
2020
Winner(s)
Fei Gao
Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Finalist
Antonio Moreno, Harvard Business School
David R. Bell
Nicos Savva , London Business School
Santiago Gallino
Yiangos Papanastasiou, University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2019
Winner(s)
Georgia Perakis, MIT/ Sloan School of Management
Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University
Ruben Lobel, Airbnb
Finalist
Anita L. Tucker
David R. Vinson
Hummy Song
Karen L. Murrell
Xuanming Su, University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2018
Winner(s)
Carri W. Chan, Columbia University
Gabriel Escobar, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Marcelo Olivares
Song-Hee Kim, USC
Finalist
Ilan Lobel, New York University
Ludwig Kuntz
Omar Besbes, Columbia University
Roman Mennicken
Stefan Scholtes, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School
2017
Winner(s)
Guillermo Gallego, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Ming Hu, University of Toronto
Finalist
Antonio Moreno
Jun Li, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Nelson Granados
Santiago Gallino
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania