2021–2025 CBOM Junior Scholar Paper Competition Results

We would like to share the results of the 2021–2025 College of Behavioral Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competitions. We congratulate all the winners and sincerely thank all the authors who participated in these competitions, as well as the reviewers who generously contributed their time and expertise to the review process.

 

2025 

• 1st place: Yang Chen (Ivey), Samuel N. Kirshner (UNSW), Anton Ovchinnikov (Queen’s), Meena Andiappan (McMaster), Tracy Jenkin (Queen’s) — “Biases of Humans, of AI, and of Humans with AI”
• 2nd place: Jingxuan Geng (Temple), Hailong Cui (Minnesota), Guangwen Kong (Temple) — “Replacing What Could Be Repaired: A Structural Analysis of Over-Treatment in Two-Stage Diagnostic Decisions for Managing Shared-Bike Returns”
• Honorable mention: Vinit S. Tipnis (Indiana), Christopher Chen (Indiana), Fei Gao (Indiana) — “Enhancing Volunteer Retention: The Role of Experienced Volunteers”
• Honorable mention: Tong Wang (LBS), Monika Heller (UCL), Kamalini Ramdas (LBS) — “The Ratings Trap: Prior Ratings, Gender and Instructor Outcomes in Higher Ed”

 

2024

• 1st place: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo (Harvard), Kris Johnson Ferreira (Harvard) — “Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift”
• 2nd place: Vinit S. Tipnis (Indiana), Sebastian Villa (UNM), Fei Gao (Indiana), Alfonso J. Pedraza-Martinez (Notre Dame) — “Balancing Act: How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Cause Marketing for Effective Fundraising”
• Honorable mention: Ramazan Kizilyildirim (UCL), C. Gizem Korpeoglu (Eindhoven), Ersin Körpeoğlu (UCL), Mirko Kremer (Frankfurt) — “Exclusive or Not? An Experimental Analysis of Parallel Innovation Contests”
• Finalist: Ragıp Gürlek (Emory), Manel Baucells (Virginia), Nikolay Osadchiy (Emory) — “Optimal Design and Pricing of Sequenced Bundles in the Presence of Satiation”
• Finalist: Xiaodan Shao (NTU), Vivek Choudhary (NTU), Arnab Majumdar, Burhanuddin Pithawala (HealthPlix) — “To Err is Human: A Field Experiment in Nudging Doctors to Safety”

 

2023

• 1st place: Maya Balakrishnan (HBS), Kris Ferreira (HBS), Jordan Tong (Wisconsin-Madison) — “Improving Human-Algorithm Collaboration: Causes and Mitigation of Over- and Under-Adherence”
• 2nd place: Nymisha Bandi (McGill), Maxime Cohen (McGill), Saibal Ray (McGill) — “Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices Using Add-on Bundling: A Field Experiment”
• Honorable mention: Bing Bai (Washington U-St. Louis), Tat Chan (WUSTL), Dennis Zhang (WUSTL), Fuqiang Zhang (WUSTL), Yujie Chen (Alibaba), Haoyuan Hu (Alibaba) — “The Value of Logistic Flexibility in Ecommerce”
• Honorable mention: Yeonjoo Lee (Minnesota), Karen Donohue (Minnesota) — “Nudging Green but Slow Shipping Choices in Online Retail”
• Finalist: Nymisha Bandi (McGill) et al. — see 2nd place above
• Finalist: Samer Charbaji (Michigan), Stephen Leider (Michigan), Roman Kapuscinski (Michigan) — “Enterprise Social Media Platform Design and Knowledge Worker Productivity”
• Finalist: Swanand Kulkarni (Georgia Tech), Basak Kalkanci (Georgia Tech), Chris Parker (American University) — “Payment Algorithm Transparency on On-Demand Service Platforms”
• Finalist: Chia-Chun Yang (Cincinnati), Craig Froehle (Cincinnati), Elizabeth Leenellett (Cincinnati) — “Effect of Shift Structure on Service-Worker Fatigue: Evidence from Emergency Department Caregivers”

 

2022

• 1st place: Tobias Lieberum (Technical University of Munich) — “Should We All Work in Sprints? How Agile Project Management Improves Performance”
• 2nd place: Mohamad Soltani (University of Alberta), Robert J. Batt (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Hessam Bavafa (U of Wisconsin-Madison), Brian W. Paterson (U of Wisconsin-Madison — “Does What Happens in the ED Stay in the ED? The Effects of Emergency Department Physician Workload on Post-ED Care Use”
• Honorable mention: Swanand Kulkarni (Georgia Tech), Basak Kalkanci (Georgia Tech) — “Spatial Information Sharing on On-Demand Service Platforms: A Behavioral Examination”
• Honorable mention: Arun Kumar Rout (UT-Dallas), Ozalp Ozer (UT-Dallas), A. Serdar Simsek (UT-Dallas) — “Pricing and Inventory Management When Consumers' Emotions Run High”

 

2021

• 1st place: Alp Sungu (London Business School), Kamalini Ramdas — “Data Caps Expand Access to Digitally-led Health Services – Evidence from a Mumbai Slum”
• 2nd place: Park Sinchaisri (Wharton), Hamsa Bastani (Wharton), Osbert Bastani (Penn Engineering) — “Learning Best Practices: Can Machine Learning Improve Human Decision-Making?”
• Honorable mention: Zhenzhen Jia (Fudan), Kejia Hu (Vanderbilt), Jian-Qiang Hu (Fudan), Vishal Ahuja (SMU Cox) — “To What Extent Do Workers’ Preferences Matter?”