The MSOM Society Student Paper Competition: Abstracts of 2006 Winners

The journal is pleased to publish the abstracts of the six finalists of the 2006 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s student paper competition.

The 2006 prize committee was chaired by Erica Plambeck (Stanford University). The other committee members were: Naren Agrawal (Santa Clara University), Aydin Alptekinoglu (University of Florida), Mor Armony (New York University),Yossi Aviv (Washington University in St. Louis), Yehuda Bassok (University of Southern California), Fernando Bernstein (Duke University), Damian Biel (University of Michigan), Kathryn Caggiano (University of Wisconsin), Felipe Caro (University of California, Los Angeles), Jiri Chod (Boston College), Francis de Vericourt (Duke University), Laurens Debo (Carnegie Mellon University), Nicole DeHoratius (University of Chicago), Vinayak Deshpande (Purdue University), Cheryl Druehl (University of Maryland), Don Eisenstein (University of Chicago), Feryal Erhun (Stanford University), Jan Fransoo (Eindhoven University ), Jeremie Gallien (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Vishal Gaur (New York University), Manu Goyal (University of Maryland), Stephen Graves (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Teck Ho (University of California, Berkeley), Xinxin Hu (Indiana University), Stelios Kavadias (Georgia Institute of Technology), Eda Kemahlioglu Ziya (University of North Carolina), Gurhan Kok (Duke University), Harish Krishnan (University of British Columbia), Martin Lariviere (Northwestern University), Retsef Levi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Christoph Loch (INSEAD), Víctor Martínez de Albéniz (Universidad de Navarra), Rodney Parker (Yale University), Georgia Perakis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ioana Popescu (INSEAD), Justin Ren (Boston University), Guillaume Roels (University of California, Los Angeles), Glen Schmidt (University of Utah), Amar Sapra (University of Florida), Sergei Savin (Columbia University), Nicola Secomandi (Carnegie Mellon University), Kevin Shang (Duke University), Max Shen (University of California, Berkeley), Enno Siemsen (University of Illinois), Greys Sosic (University of Southern California), Richard Steinberg (Cambridge University), Xuanming Su (University of California, Berkeley), Ravi Subramanian (Georgia Institute of Technology), Julie Swann (Georgia Institute of Technology), Terry Taylor (Columbia University), Christian Terwiesch (University of Pennsylvania), Brian Tomlin (University of North Carolina), Tunay Tunca (Stanford University), Senthil Veeraraghavan (University of Pennsylvania), Owen Wu (University of Michigan), Xiaowei Xu (Rutgers University), Assaf Zeevi (Columbia University), Fuqiang Zhang (University of California, Irvine), Shaohui Zheng (Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology).

The 2006 prize winners are as follows:

First Place

Itay Gurvich, Columbia University

“Cross-Selling in a Call Center with a Heterogeneous Customer Population”

Second Place

Sarang Deo, University of California, Los Angeles

“Cournot Competition Under Yield Uncertainty: The Case of the U.S. Influenza Vaccine Market”

Vivek Farias, Stanford University

“Dynamic Pricing with a Prior on Market Response”

Finalists

Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, Georgia Institute of Technology

“The Effects of Customer Rebates and Retailer Incentives on Manufacturer Profitability and Sales”

Sang-Hyun Kim, University of Pennsylvania

“Performance Contracting in After-Sales Service Supply Chains”

Chris Lee, University of Pennsylvania

“Optimal Initiation of the Dialysis Therapy”