POMS Applied Research Challenge
The POMS Applied Research Challenge (ARC) was launched in 2012 to encourage POMS members to conduct rigorous applied research that is relevant to practice and innovative.
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Fourth POMS ARC 2020/21
Award Recipient(s)
Improving Farmers' Income on Online Agri-platforms: Theory and Field Implementation of a Two-stage Auction [View Presentation]
Retsef Levi, MIT Sloan
Manoj Rajan, Rashtriya e-Market Services
Somya Singhvi, USC Marshall School of Business
Yanchong Zheng, MIT Sloan
Finalists
Data-Driven Sports Ticket Pricing for Multiple Sales Channels with Heterogeneous Customers [View Presentation]
Hayri A. Arslan, Queen's University
Robert F. Easley, University of Notre Dame
Ruxian Wang, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Ovunc Yilmaz, University of Colorado Boulder
Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Evidence From a Structural Model and Field Experiments in Rwanda [View Presentation]
Bhavani Shanker Uppari (Singapore Management University)
Serguei Netessine (The Wharton School)
Ioana Popescu (INSEAD)
Rowan P. Clarke (Harvard Business School)
Third POMS ARC 2018
Award Recipient(s)
Leveraging Comparables for New Product Sales Forecasting [View Presentation]
Lennart Baardman, MIT OR Center
Igor Levin, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Companies Inc.
Georgia Perakis, MIT Sloan School of Management
Divya Singhvi, MIT OR Center
Finalists
How Does Dynamic Pricing Affect Customer Behavior on Retailing Platforms?
Evidence from a Large Randomized Experiment on AlibabaDennis Zhang, WUSTL Olin Business School
Lingxiu Dong, WUSTL Olin Business School
Hengchen Dai, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Xiaofei Liu, Alibaba Group
Nannan Zhang, Alibaba Group
Minimizing Multimodular Functions and Allocating Capacity in Bike-Sharing Systems [View Presentation]
Daniel Freund (Cornell University)
Shane G. Henderson (Cornell University)
David B. Shmoys (Cornell University)
Second POMS ARC 2016
Winners
Tugce Martagan
Ananth Krishnamurthy
Peter A. Leland
Christos T. Maravelias
Finalists
Nathan Kallus
Dimitris Bertsimas
Amjad Hussain
Saurabh Bansal
Genaro J. Gutierrez
John R. Keiser
Finalist Presentations
First POMS ARC 2014
Finalists