In each year a distinguished committee of scholars, chaired by the V.P. Education on the ISMS Board, reviews many proposals to determine the award winner and, over the past few years, this prize has been awarded to the following individuals.
ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Award
PARTNER ORGANIZATION: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
2024
Jasmine Yang
“Creator Content Production and Promotion Decisions on Online Video Platforms”
Columbia University (Advisors: Oded Netzer, Andrey Simonov)
2023
Malika Korganbekova
“Regulating Data Usage”
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (PhD Co-Chair: Eric Anderson and Brett Gordon)
2022
Mohsen Foroughifar
“The Challenges of Deploying an Algorithmic Pricing Tool: Evidence from Airbnb”
University of Toronto (PhD Chair: Nitin Mehta)
2021
Zheng Gong
“Measuring Fair Competition”
University of Toronto (Advisor: Bernd Skiera)
2020
Olivia Natan
“Choice Frictions in Large Assortments”
Chicago (Advisors: Jean-Pierre Dubé, Predeep K. Chintagunta)
2019
Tesary Lin
“Valuing Intrinsic and Instrumental Preferences for Privacy”
University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Advisors: Sanjog Misra, Pradeep Chintagunta)
2018
Zuhui Xiao
“Marketing Strategies with Endogenous Reference-Dependent Preferences”
Minnesota (Advisors: George John, Tony Haitao Cui)
2017
Hana Choi
“Monetization in Product and Display Advertising Marketplaces”
Duke (Advisor: Carl F. Mela)
2016
Daniel McCarthy
“Customer-Based Corporate Valuation: Modeling with Limited, Aggregated, Missing Data”
Pennsylvania (Advisors: Eric Bradlow, Peter Fader, Shane Jensen)
Bernadette van Ewijk
“Purchase Behavior of Consumers in Emerging Markets”
Tilburg & AiMark (Advisors: Els Gijsbrechts, J-B Steenkamp)
2014
Daniel Ringel
“Creating Insights in Large Markets”
Goethe University Frankfurt (Advisor: Bernd Skiera)
2013
Clarence Lee
“Designing Freemium: a Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics”
Harvard University (Advisors: Sunil Gupta, Vineet Kumar)
2012
Eric Schwartz
“The Attribute-Based Multi-Armed Bandit for Adaptive Marketing Experiments”
Wharton School (Advisors: Eric T. Bradlow, Peter S. Fader)
2011
Doug J. Chung
“Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans”
Yale University (Advisor: K. Sudhir)
