MSOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management

2025 Winner(s)

Winning material: Reshaping National Organ Allocation Policy

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

2025
Winner(s)
Darren Stewart, New York University
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
James Alcorn, United Network for Organ Sharing
Nikolaos Trichakis, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Rebecca Goff, United Network for Organ Sharing
Theodore Papalexopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Baizhi Song, London Business School
Bruno Sainte-Rose, The Ocean Cleanup
Dick den Hertog, University of Amsterdam
Jean Pauphilet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yannick Pham, The Ocean Cleanup:
Finalist
Adrienne Heinrich, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Center of Excellence, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
Anton Ovchinnikov, Queen's University
Auyon Saddiq
Beril Toktay, Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniela Saban, Stanford University
David R. Hardoon, Union Bank of the Philippines, and Aboitiz Data Innovation
Dominique Olié Lauga
Eduardo Lara, University of Chile
Gabriel Weintraub, Stanford University
Jingwei Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles
Marcelo Olivares
Paula Moreno, ChileCompra
Piero Zanocco, University of Chile
Sheng Liu
Stephanie Kelley, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada
Sytske C. Wijnsma
2024
Winner(s)
Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Singapore Management University
Ioana Popescu, INSEAD
Rowan P. Clarke, Harvard Business School
Serguei Netessine, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Runner-Up
Erin Serino, Boston Emergency Medical Services
James Salvia, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Justin Steil, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jónas Oddur Jónasson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laura Segal, Boston Emergency Medical Services
Mark Brennan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sophia Dyer, Boston Emergency Medical Services
2023
Winner(s)
Anna Sáez de Tejada Cuenca, IESE Business School, University of Navarra
Felipe Caro, UCLA
Leonard Lane, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
Runner-Up
Alireza Boloori, Arizona State University
Curtiss B. Cook, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital
Harini A. Chakkera, Divisions of Transplantation and Endocrinology, Mayo Clinic Hospital
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Finalist
Corinne Post, Department of Management and Operations, Villanova University
David J. Ketchen Jr., Department of Management, Auburn University
George P. Ball, Operations and Decision Technologies Department, Indiana University, Bloomington
Kaitlin D. Wowak, IT, Analytics, and Operations Department, University of Notre Dame
Soroush Saghafian, Harvard University
Wallace J. Hopp, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
2022
Winner(s)
Di Wu, University of Michigan
Joan C. Williams , UC Hastings
Jun Li, University of Michigan
Pradeep Pendem, University of Oregon
Samantha M. Keppler , University of Michigan
Saravanan Kesavan, University of North Carolina
Susan J. Lambert , University of Chicago
Honorable Mention
Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Indiana University
Owen Wu, Indiana University
Telesilla Kotsi, Ohio State University
2021
Winner(s)
Jivan Romain Deglise-Hawkinson, Lean Care Solutions
Jonathan Helm, Indiana University Health
Julian Pan, Lean Care Solutions
Pengyi Shi, Purdue University
Finalist
Vivek Choudhary, Information Systems & Operations Management, Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Maria Ibanez, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
Masha Shunko, Foster School of Business
University of Washington

Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School

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