Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Awards

As a leading professional society in the field of production and operations management, POMS has a responsibility to influence and discern outstanding research, teaching, service and practice accomplishments. Many people contribute to these accomplishments and POMS recognizes these contributions through the following awards.

The POMS Fellows Award, the highest award that POMS bestows on its members, is intended to recognize POMS members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to our profession and Society through their research and teaching.

The Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award is given to recognize outstanding contributions by POM practitioners for making advances in the practice of POM, promoting the profession, producing exceptional impacts, and building a linkage between industry and academics.

The Sushil K. Gupta Distinguished POMS Service Award is given to recognize outstanding service to POMS.

The Wickham Skinner Awards are intended to encourage POM scholarship and publication, to promote significant research in the field, to reward academics who have achieved unusually high accomplishment early in their careers, and to facilitate sharing of innovative new ideas about teaching POM.

The Emerging Economies Doctoral Student Award (EEDSA) has been created to establish institutional linkages to future scholars in emerging economies, and to encourage their development and connection to the Production and Operations Management Society.

Distinguished Lecturer Award is given to a highly visible individual in our profession to deliver a distinguished keynote speech at one of our international conferences. Recipients share knowledge and leading thoughts globally which promotes and supports our international chapters and affiliated societies.

Awards

 
     

Past Wickham Skinner Winners: Best Papers

Jul 09 2015

Papers presented at the POMS' annual conference in a given year and those under review by Production and Operations Management were eligible for this award from 2001 to 2009. However, beginning in year 2010, the award are given for the best paper published in Production and Operations Management during the previous year. Papers are judged on overall quality with careful attention given to both relevance and rigor.

The affiliations of the winners listed below were at the time of winning the award. The hyper-link provided in the name of the winner points to her/his current affiliation.

2016: Managing the Performance Trade-offs from Partner Integration: Implications of Contract Choice (First Place), Production and Operations Management, Vol. 24(10), 1552-1569.
         Alan MacCormack, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
         Anant Mishra , School of Business, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

2016: Flexibility Structure and Capacity Design with Human Resource Considerations (Second Place) , Production and Operations Management, Vol. 24(7), 1086-1100.
         O. Zeynep Aksin, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
         Nesrin Cakan, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
         Fikri Karaesmen, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
         E. Lerzan Ormeci, Koç University, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey

2015Clickstream Data and Inventory Management: Model and Empirical Analysis (First Place)Production and Operations Management Vol. 23(3), 333-347.
         Tingliang Huang, Management Science and Innovation, UCL, UK.
         Jan A. Van Mieghem, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

2015Distributional and Peer-Induced Fairness in Supply Chain Contract Design (Second Place)Production and Operations Management Vol. 23(2), 161-175.
         Teck H. Ho, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, California.
         Xuanming Su, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia.
         Yaozhong Wu, NUS Business School, Singapore

2014The Impact of Logistics Performance on TradeProduction and Operations Management Vol. 22(2), 236-252.
         Warren H. Hausman, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
         Hau L. Lee, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
         Uma Subramanian, World bank Group, Washington.

2013Assortment Planning for Vertically Differentiated ProductsProduction and Operations Management Vol. 21(2), 253-275.
         Xiajun Amy Pan, Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
         Dorothee Honhon, School of Industrial Engineering, Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

2012Regulatory Trade Risk and Supply Chain StrategyProduction and Operations Management Vol. 20(4), 522-540.
         Yimin Wang, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
         Wendell Gilland, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
         Brian Tomlin, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

2011Dynamic Assignment of Flexible Service ResourcesProduction and Operations Management Vol. 19(3), 279-304.
         Yalcin Akcay, College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Koc¸ University, Istanbul, Turkey.
         Anant Balakrishnan, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
         Susan H. Xu, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.

2010Co-opetition and Investment for Supply-Chain ResilienceProduction and Operations Management 18(6), p 583-603. 
         Nitin Bakshi, London Business School, London, U.K.
         Paul Kleindorfer, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France.

2009: No Awards

2008: Multi-Period Remanufacturing Planning (First Place)
         Meltem Denizel, Faculty of Management, Sabanci University, Orhanli-Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. 
         Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 
         Gilvan C. Souza, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.

2008: Offshoring and the Location of Innovation (Second Place) 
         Brian Fifarek, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
         Francisco Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
         Cliff Davidson, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.

2007: Efficient Take Back Legislation (First Place)
         Atalay Atasu, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 
         Miklos Sarvary, INSEAD , Fontainebleau, France
         Luk N. Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France

2006: Category Captainship: Outsourcing Retail Category Management (First Place)
         Mumin Kurtulus, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S. A.
         Beril Toktay, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

2006: How Should a Firm Manage Deteriorating Inventory? (Second Place - Tie)
         Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 
         Oded Koenigsberg, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, NY, U.S.A

2006: Inventory Signals (Second Place - Tie)
         Richard Kum-yew Lai, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

2005: The Effect of Competition on Recovery Strategies (First Place)
         Mark Ferguson, College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. 
         L. Beril Toktay, INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France

2005: You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours: The Mechanism of Round-way Outsourcing (Second Place -Tie) 
         Bin Jiang, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

2005: Managing Customer Outrage: Focus Organizational Learning Efforts on Service Failure or Recovery? (Second Place - Tie)
         Michael A. Lapre, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

2004: An Analysis of Selection Criteria for Grocery Home Delivery and Effects of Operational Execution of Repeat Purchasing          (First Place - Tie)
         Kenneth K. Boyer, Eli Broad Grad. School of Management, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
         Markham T. Frohlich, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.

2004: Coordination of a Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Agents (First Place - Tie) 
         Xianghua Gan, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.
         Suresh P. Sethi, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.
         Houmin Yan, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, U.S.A.

2004: The Effects of Just-in-Time/Lean Production Practices on Worker Job Stress (Second Place)
         Jannis Angelis, Cambridge University
         Robert Conti
         Cary Cooper, Lancaster University
         Brian Faragher
         Collin Gill

2003: Airline Performance Improvement Paths: Linking Trade-offs to Asset Frontiers (First Place)
        Michael A. Lapré, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
         Gary D. Scudder, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.

2003: Information Sharing to Improve Retail Product Freshness of Perishables (Second Place)
         Michael Ketzenberg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.

2002: The effects of severity of failure and customer loyalty on service recovery strategies (First Place)

         Christopher Craighead, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.
         Kirk Karwan,University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
         Janis Miller, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, U.S.A.

2001: No Awards

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