The POMS Fellows Award

Designation as a POMS Fellow is the most prestigious honor awarded by the Production and Operations Management Society, and is given for life. It is intended to recognize POMS members who have made exceptional intellectual contributions to our profession and Society through their research and teaching. Although loyal service to the Society, in administrative, elected, or editorial assignments, is not by itself a sufficient qualification for this award, it can strengthen the case of a member who has also become a thought-leader in our field. To be eligible a candidate must have demonstrated commitment to furthering the objectives of POMS (as evidenced by such indicators as membership in the Society, and active participation in POMS Colleges and meetings).

• An article regarding the award by Dr. Martin K. Starr (Written in 2004)

Present Recipient

2020: Qi Annabelle Feng, Purdue University & Geoffrey G. Parker, Dartmouth College

Past Recipients

2019: V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, Subodha Kumar, Temple University & Manoj K. Malhotra, Case Western Reserve University

2018: Edward Anderson, UT Austin & Sridhar Seshadri, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

2017: Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas at Dallas, USA & Asoo J. Vakharia - University of Florida, USA

2015: Vinod Singhal - Georgia Tech, USA & Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, UNC Chapel Hill, USA

2014: J. George Shantikumar - Purdue University, USA

2013: Charles Corbett - UCLA, USA & Ananth Raman - Harvard Business School, USA

2012: Chelliah Sriskandarajah - Texas A&M University, USA

2011: William Lovejoy -University of Michigan, USA & Chris Tang - UCLA, USA

The Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award

Recognizing Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has instituted the Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award to recognize contributions made to the field of Production and Operations Management (POM) by POM practitioners. It is an international award and is open to all POM practitioners from around the world.

The POMS' Board in its annual meeting held on April 28, 2006 in Boston, U.S.A., unanimously approved that the award be named after Dr. Martin K. Starr. The POMS' Board in its deliberations noted that Dr. Starr has contributed to POMS and its activities since its inception and has been a constant source of guidance and inspiration to POMS. Naming this award after him is indeed a great recognition of his services to the POM profession in general and the POM Society in particular.

2021: Call for Nominations

We are now seeking nominations for the seventeenth award which will be presented during the POMS Thirty First Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 23 -27, 2020.

Present Recipient

The committee for the 2020 (MKS EPOMP) award unanimously selected Anne Robinson. She led the effort to improve interactions between academia and industry. She is a former president of INFORMS society.

2020: Anne Robinson, Chief Strategy Officer, Kinaxis

Past Recipients

Past recipients of the award, who are among the most esteemed members of the POM field, are:

  2019: Jim Miller & Dr. Di Wu
  2018: Dr. Colin Kessinger
  2017: Dr. Alexander (Alex) Brown
  2016: Dr. Russell Allgor
  2015: Mr. Pier Luigi Sigismondi
  2014: Mr. Josue Gomes da Silva & Dr. Dean Bartles
  2013: Mr. Thomas Debrowski
  2012: Dr. Gang Yu
  2011: Mr. Edwin Keh
  2010: Dr. Krishan Kumar
  2009: Ms. Erin J. Wallace
  2008: Dr. Dino Petrarolo
  2007: Dr. Corey A. Billington
  2006: Mr. Lee Cockerell

The Sushil K. Gupta Distinguished POMS Service Award

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) created the Sushil K. Gupta POMS Distinguished Service Award at its annual meeting in Chicago, April 20, 2012, to recognize contributions made by those members who substantially contributed to the growth of the Society. The award was named after Dr. Sushil K. Gupta to honor him for his dedicated services to POMS.

The Committee for the Sushil K. Gupta POMS Distinguished Service Award (2020) has unanimously selected one candidates from a slate of excellent nominees:

2020: Suresh P Sethi - The University of Texas at Dallas

Past Recipients

2019: Shailesh Kulkarni - University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

2018: Subodha Kumar - Temple University, USA

2017: Cristopher (Chris) S. Tang - UCLA, USA

2016: John J. Kanet - University of Dayton, USA & Nagesh M. Murthy - University of Oregon, USA

2015: Chelliah Sriskandarajah - Texas A&M University & James P Gilbert - Rollins College

2014: Cheryl Gaimon - Georgia Institute of Technology & Hau Lee - Stanford University

2013: Martin K Starr - Rollins College

Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability

The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) approved the Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability in its meeting held on November 18, 2011 in Boston, U.S.A. The award is instituted to recognize young scholars who have already distinguished themselves through the breadth and innovativeness of their scholarly work on questions related to sustainable operations and the social and environmental impact of business.

Present Recipient(s)

The 2019 Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability has been awarded to Prof. James Abbey of Texas A&M and Prof. Luyi Gui of UC-Irvine. Both co-winners have contributed to the community of sustainability researchers and teachers in numerous ways. Their research has broken important new ground in the field of sustainable operations and has led to impressive publication records in POM and other top journals. Profs. Abbey and Gui have also served the POMS academic community tirelessly through leadership positions in the POMS College of Sustainable Operations, mini-conference organization, and reviewing/editing manuscripts for the Sustainable Operations Department of POM.

   2020: Tim Kraft, North Carolina State University
   2020: Basak Kalkanci, Georgia Institute of Technology

Past Recipients

   2019: James Abbey, Texas A&M
   2019: Luyi Gui, UC-Irvine
   2018: Brian Jacobs, Pepperdine University
   2017: Owen Wu, Indiana University, USA
   2016: Vishal Agrawal, Georgetown University, USA
   2015: Prof. Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen's School of Business
   2014: Michael Galbreth, University of Tennessee
   2013: Atalay Atasu, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Michael W. Toffel, Harvard Business School
   2012: Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wickham Skinner Awards

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 the sharing of innovative new ideas about teaching POM. Read Details

2020 Best Paper Awards

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.

Present Recipient(s)

Integrated Scheduling and Capacity Planning with Considerations for Patients' Length-of-Stays, Vol. 28, Issue 7, pages 1735-1756.

• Nan Liu, Carroll School of Management, Boston College
• Van-Anh Truong, Columbia University
• Xinshang Wang, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Brett R. Anderson, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Past Recipients

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.

2019: Mazhar Arikan, University of Kansas, Baris Ata, The University of Chicago, John J. Friedewald, Northwestern University & Rodney P. Parker, Indiana University

Runner-Ups: Xiang Liu, University of Michigan, Michael Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jonathan E. Helm, Indiana University, Mariel S. Lavieri, University of Michigan & Ted A. Skolarus, University of Michigan

2018:G. Berenguer, Q. Feng, J. George Shanthikumar & L. Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Runner-Ups: Li, T, Sethi, S. P. & Zhang, J

2017 Recipients - Tie
Information Reliability in Supply Chains: The Case of Multiple Retailers, Production and Operations Management, Vol.25, 548-567.
Eirini Spiliotopoulou, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Karen Donohue, University of Minnesota & Mustafa Cagri Gurbuz, Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC)
Interventions for an Artemisinin-based Malaria Medicine Supply Chain, Production and Operations Management, Vol.25, 1576-1600
Burak Kazaz , Syracuse University, Scott Webster, Arizona State University & Prashant Yadav, University of Michigan

Runner-Ups:
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation, Production and Operations Management, Vol.25, 1006-1025
David F. Drake, Harvard University, Paul R. Kleindorfer, INSEAD, Boulevard de Constance, Fontainebleau, France & Luk N. Van Wassenhove, INSEAD

2020 Early-Career Research Accomplishments Awards

An Early Career Researcher is defined as someone who has received a doctoral degree (or its equivalent outside of the U.S.A.) within the previous six years. Work published (or formally accepted for publication) or presented at a conference within the six years eligibility period is considered in the evaluation process if properly documented. The judges evaluate the impact of the body of work in terms of its ability to broaden, extend, and alter the way that POM is conceptualized, practiced, and viewed.

Present Recipient(s)

2020: Santiago Gallino, University of Pennsylvania & Maxime C. Cohen, McGill University

Runner up: Tinglong Dai, Johns Hopkins University

Past Recipient(s)

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.
2019: Ryan Buell, Harvard Business School
2018: Tingliang Huang (Boston College) & Srikanth Jagabathula (NYU) (Honorable Mention:Andrew Davis (Cornell))
2017: Antonio Moreno-Garcia, Harvard Business School  (Runner-up: Vishal Agrawal, Georgetown University)
2016: Carri Chan, Columbia Business School, USA & Ming Hu, University Of Toronto, Canada

2020 Teaching Innovation Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize impact and innovation in Production and Operations Management instruction. In their evaluation of the materials submitted, the judges give primary attention to: (1) evidence of pedagogical excellence, (2) evidence of creativity and/or innovation and (3) evidence of impact.

Current Recipient(s)

2020: Stanley Fawcett, Weber State University

Past Recipients

2019: Xenophon Koufteros, Texas A&M University & Robert P. Sroufe, Jr.,Duquesne University
2018: Gangshu (George) Cai (Santa Clara University)
2017: Christian Terwiesch, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2016: James Hill, Ohio State University, USA