MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis, Management Science 70(5): 3038-3058.

Purpose of the Award

The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place through informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.

Application process

To see the past winning papers, click on the author's name.

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Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Ioana Popescu, INSEAD Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
2024 Runner-Up
Mark Brennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sophia Dyer, Boston Emergency Medical Services Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology James Salvia, Boston Emergency Medical Services Laura Segal, Boston Emergency Medical Services Erin Serino, Boston Emergency Medical Services Justin Steil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023 Winner(s)
Felipe Caro, UCLA Leonard Lane, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
2023 Runner-Up
Alireza Boloori, Arizona State University
 Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University Harini A. Chakkera, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital Curtiss B. Cook, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital
2023 Finalist
Kaitlin D. Wowak, IT, Analytics, and Operations Department, University of Notre Dame George P. Ball, Operations and Decision Technologies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington Corinne Post, Department of Management and Operations, Villanova University David J. Ketchen Jr., Department of Management, Auburn University
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
2022 Winner(s)

Two winners

 Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina Susan J. Lambert , University of Chicago Joan C. Williams , UC Hastings Pradeep Pendem, University of Oregon

Two winners

 Samantha M. Keppler , University of Michigan Jun Li, University of Michigan
 Di Wu, University of Michigan
2022 Honorable Mention
Telesilla Kotsi, Ohio State University Owen Wu, Indiana University Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University
2021 Winner(s)
Pengyi Shi, Purdue University
 Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Health Jivan Romain Deglise-Hawkinson, Lean Care Solutions
 Julian Pan, Lean Care Solutions
2021 Finalist
Vivek Choudhary, Information Systems & Operations Management, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
 Masha Shunko, Foster School of Business
University of Washington

 Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Seongjoon Koo
Maria Ibanez, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School

2021 Honorable Mention
Wenqi Hu, Columbia Business School Carri W. Chan, Columbia University José R. Zubizarreta, Harvard Medical School Gabriel Escobar
Priyank Arora , University of South Carolina Morvarid Rahmani, Georgia Institute of Technology Karthik Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology
2020 Winner(s)
Retsef Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Manoj Rajan, Rashtriya e Market Services Private Limited
 Somya Singhvi, University of Southern California Yanchong Zheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Itai Ashlagi , Stanford University Peng Shi, USC Marshall School of Business
2020 Honorable Mention
Ruomeng Cui, Emory University
 Jun Li, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
 Dennis Zhang, WUSTL
Wayne Fu, Department of Management Studies & Decision Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn Basak Kalkanci, Georgia Institute of Technology Scheller College of Business
 Ravi Subramanian, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech
2019 Winner(s)
Atalay Atasu, INSEAD Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology Can Zhang , Duke University
Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology