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From M&SOM President

Excited to be upgrading MSOM Listserv to INFORMS Connect

informs_connect_320As the president of the MSOM Society, I am looking forward to introducing you to our newest member benefit, a MSOM Community within INFORMS Connect. We will soon be transitioning the MSOM listserv from its existing software platform to a new and improved community platform: INFORMS Connect (http://connect.informs.org). As an existing MSOM member, your subscription has been automatically migrated to the Community page within INFORMS Connect. If you are not currently a paid member of MSOM, you will lose access to this content, as it is considered a member benefit. Don’t miss out – join now!

Here’s a quick overview of some of the new features you can expect in INFORMS Connect:

Enhanced discussion capabilities. Now you’ll receive emails that are more structured and easier to read than a traditional listserv or forum alert, and will include a repository of all archived discussions. No more searching through email!

Improved Member Directory search. You can find members by name, location, SIG affiliation, area of expertise, work setting, and more.

Granular privacy controls. You can have complete control over what information you share with members of the community and your contacts.

Centralized subscription management. You can manage your subscriptions to all discussions in one place. Choose to receive daily digests or real-time emails by group.

Resource sharing. All attachments posted to discussions are archived in a dedicated MSOM Library. You can also add or download documents from the library.

You will receive a final notification when the transition has been completed. At that time, this list will be deactivated. I look forward to connecting with you!

 

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From M&SOM President

Call for Papers MSOM Conference 2015 Rotman School of Management University of Toronto

MSOM-Conference2015-LogoThe Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) society will hold its annual conference on Monday, June 29 and Tuesday June 30, 2015 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The MSOM Conference will be preceded by the MSOM Special Interest Group (SIG) Conferences on Sunday, June 28. We invite anyone interested in presenting a paper at the MSOM Conference to submit an extended abstract.

Abstracts should not exceed three (3) pages double-spaced, in Times New Roman, font size 12, and can be submitted in Word or .pdf format. No math symbols should be used and tables and diagrams should be minimal.

Abstracts will be selected for oral presentation by blind review, meaning no authors’ names or affiliations should appear on the MSOM-RotmanSchool-1038x415abstracts. However, special consideration will be given by the conference committee to papers to be presented by faculty members. This consideration is based on the survey of the society conducted this past fall. For the benefit of all, if you indicate a faculty member will present, we hope this will be the case. Following MSOM policy, every abstract submitted will be automatically accepted into a poster session if not accepted for oral presentation. Acceptance of a paper for oral or poster presentation is conditional on at least one author registering for the conference.

To submit an abstract for MSOM 2015 conference, please follow the submission link from the conference website MSOM 2015.  (http://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/msom-2015/)

Submission will be open from January 5, 2015 until March 9, 2015.  No papers will be accepted after the March 9th deadline.

Please note that submission requirements for the MSOM Conference differ from the SIG submission requirements; papers submitted for SIG consideration should be sent to the specific SIG following their call for papers.

For any questions about the MSOM conference, please contact talia.mandowsky@rotman.utoronto.ca.

Important Dates:

January 5, 2015: Early Conference Registration & Abstract Submission Opens

March 9, 2015: Abstract Submission Closes

April 17, 2015: Notification of acceptance for oral presentation

May 22, 2015: MSOM 2015 Conference Program Available

June 8, 2015: Regular Registration Opens (early registration closes)

June 28, 2015: SIG Conference (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

June 29-30, 2015: MSOM Conference

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From M&SOM President

Operations Professor Helps Organ Transplant Patients On Multiple Waiting Lists

photo_3888713131521_sridharTayur_webRecently, our long time M&SOM Society member Sridhar Tayur was in the news in relation to his work with transplant patients through www.organjet.com, see articles/videos in The Atlantic, CBS Boston and CBS Denver.  Congratulation to Sridhar!

If you notice similar news articles that you would like to see publicized here, please email me.

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From M&SOM President

M&SOM Business Meeting at INFORMS Conference

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThanks to everyone who attended M&SOM Business Meeting at INFORMS in San Francisco! The entire conference was a big success.

If you wish to see photos from the business meeting, here they are thanks to Pranab Majumder.  In case you missed the meeting, here are the minutes of the meeting, thanks to Guillaume Roels.  The most important information is winners of our many prizes, congratulations to them all!

2014 MSOM Distinguished Fellows
• Uday Karmarkar (UCLA)
• Robin Roundy (BYU)
• Matt Sobel (Case Western Reserve University)

2014 MSOM Distinguished Service Award
• Jeannette Song (Duke)
MSOM 2014 Best Paper Award
• Philipp Afeche (2013). Incentive-Compatible Revenue Management in Queuing Systems: Optimal Strategic Delay, M&SOM 15(3), 423-443.

MS Journal 2014 Best Paper Award in OM
• Ozalp Ozer, Karen Zheng, and Kay-Yut Chen. 2011. Trust in Forecast Information Sharing, Management Science 57(6).

• Finalists:
o Bray, Mendelson. 2012. Information Transmission and the Bullwhip Effect: An Empirical Investigation Management Science. 58(5).
o Cachon, Swinney. 2011. The Value of Fast Fashion: Quick Response, Enhanced Design, and Strategic Consumer Behavior Management Science. 57(4).
o Swinney. 2011. Selling to Strategic Consumers When Product Value Is Uncertain: The Value of Matching Supply and Demand Management Science. 57(10).

MSOM 2014 Student Paper Competition results
• First Prize: Jónas Oddur Jónasson (LBS), “Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa”. Primary Advisor: Jérémie Gallien
• First Prize: Yoni Gur (Stanford University), “Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through Rates”. Primary Advisors: Omar Besbes, Assaf Zeevi
• Finalist: Antoine Désir (Columbia University), “Sparse Process Flexibility Designs: Is Long Chain Really Optimal”. Primary Advisor: Vineet Goyal (Columbia)
• Finalist: Karthik Murali (University of Illinois), “Municipal Groundwater Management: Optimal Allocation and Control of a Renewable Resource”. Primary Advisor: Nick Petruzzi
• Finalist: Yaron Shaposhnik (MIT), “Scheduling with Testing”. Primary Advisors: Retsef Levi and Thomas Magnanti
• Finalist:  Linwei Xin (Georgia Tech IsyE), “Optimality Gap of Constant-Order Policies Decays Exponentially in the Lead Time for Lost Sales Models”. Primary Advisor: David Goldberg

2014 MSOM Young Scholar Award
• Winner: Xuanming Su (University of Pennsylvania)

iFORM SIG 2014 Best Paper Award
• Winner: Li, L., Shubik, M., Sobel, M. J. (2013). Control of dividends, capital subscriptions, and physical inventories. Management Science 59(5), 1107-1124.

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From M&SOM President

M&SOM Student Paper competition finalists annouced

With thanks to Goker Aydin, Guillaume Roels, and Gil Souza, Chairs, 2014 MSOM Student Paper Competition, we have the following list of competition finalists:

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2014 MSOM Student Paper Competition

Announcement of Finalists

We are pleased to announce the six finalists of the 2014 M&SOM student paper competition. The finalists are (in alphabetical order):

Antoine Désir, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Columbia University, “Sparse Process Flexibility Designs: Is Long Chain Really Optimal?”

Yonatan Gur, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, “Optimization in Online Content Recommendation Services: Beyond Click-Through-Rates”

Jónas Oddur Jónasson, London Business School, “Improving HIV Early Infant Diagnosis Supply Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Karthik Murali, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Municipal Groundwater Management: Optimal Allocation and Control of a Renewable Resource”

Yaron Shaposhnik, Operations Research Center, MIT, “Scheduling with Testing”

Linwei Xin, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Optimality Gap of Constant-Order Policies Decays Exponentially in the Lead Time for Lost Sales Models”

The finalists were selected out of a pool of 105 submissions based on the input from a large panel of experienced judges. Many judges commented on the excellence of the papers this year, which made it a difficult task to select the finalists.

We will announce the winners — first and second place — at the M&SOM Business Meeting (INFORMS, San Francisco), on Sunday November 9th at 6:15pm. Please check the conference program to find the exact location of the business meeting.  We invite the M&SOM community at large to attend.

In addition, each finalist will present his/her work in one of two special M&SOM sessions scheduled for Monday 11/10/14, 1:30-3:00pm, and 4:30-6:00pm. We will follow up with additional information about these sessions later.  We hope you will be able to attend these sessions!

Please join us in congratulating the finalists.

Goker Aydin, Guillaume Roels, and Gil Souza

Chairs, 2014 MSOM Student Paper Competition

 

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From M&SOM President

Welcome to M&SOM Society Blog!

MSOM_Logo_large.jpg.pagespeed.ce.pGHcaxSUEVIt is finally here! Going forward, M&SOM blog will the forum for disseminating research, teaching and for general outreach to the society members and beyond. Time will show how the blog evolves, but at the very least we see it serving the following purposes:

1. As a platform for M&SOM Board to update Society members on what is happening in the Society.  While we reach out to the society from time to time through M&SOM mailing list, there is no simple way to access older posts.

2. As a supplement for M&SOM Journal.  We envision that the authors of work that appears in M&SOM would in parallel write a short, accessible article explaining key findings to wider audiences.

3. As a forum for M&SOM Society members to offer their views and takes on the discipline, including discussion of promising research and teaching approaches.  Although we do have OM Forum articles in M&SOM Journal, shorter/simpler articles would be better published as blogs.

Welcome to M&SOM blog and please feel free to offer your views on what would be great to have here!

 

 

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