Finalists of the 2024 POMS CSO Student Paper Competition

We received 19 excellent applications for the 2024 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition. Of them, 11 were analytical, and 8 were empirical. After two rounds of careful evaluations by 13 judges, we ended-up with four finalists:

 

"Nudging Green but Slow Shipping Choices in Online Retail"

Yeonjoo Lee (with Karen Donohue)

 

"Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans"

Baizhi Song (with Jean Pauphilet, Dick den Hertog, Bruno Sainte-Rose and Yannick Pham)

 

"The Role of Driver Behavior in Moving the Electric Grid to Zero Emissions"

Leann Thayaparan (with Georgia Perakis)

 

"Greenness and its Discontents: Operational Implications of Investor Pressure"

Nilsu Uzunlar (with Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur)

 

We congratulate all finalists! The finalists will present their research briefly at the POMS CSO mini-conference, which will be held on April 25 (next Thursday) between 12-5pm in Minneapolis. The winners will also be announced during the mini-conference.

Serasu Duran and Somya Singhvi

 

PS: We'd like to express our biggest gratitude to the judges who evaluated the papers, namely (in alphabetical order): Ali Fattahi, Alp Sungu, Amrita Kundu, Anna Cuenca, Christian Kaps, Divya Singhvi, Elisabeth Paulson, Maya Ganesh, Michael Blair, Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Soudipta Chakraborty, Sytske Wijnsma and Xiaoyang Long.