MSOM Society Student Paper Competition: Abstracts of 2013 Winners

The journal is pleased to publish the abstracts of the six finalists of the 2013 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s student paper competition.The 2013 prize committee was chaired by Felipe Caro (UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles), Guillaume Roels (UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles), and Gabriel Weintraub (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University). The other committee members were Philipp Afèche, Vishal Agrawal, Gad Allon, Aydın Alptekinoğlu, Atalay Atasu, Göker Aydın, Opher Baron, Achal Bassamboo, Damian Beil, Omar Besbes, Kostas Bimpikis, Robert Bray, René Caldentey, Carri Chan, Li Chen, Xin Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, Soo-Haeng Cho, Laurens Debo, Nicole DeHoratius, Sarang Deo, Lingxiu Dong, David Drake, Wedad Elmaghraby, Pnina Feldman, Qi Feng, Srinagesh Gavirneni, Karan Girotra, Ming Hu, Tim Huh, Dan Iancu, Foad Iravani, Srikanth Jagabathula, Ganesh Janakiraman, Diwas KC, Eda Kemahlıoğlu-Ziya, Saravanan Kesavan, Sang Kim, Mirko Kremer, Harish Krishnan, Mümin Kurtuluş, Guoming Lai, Jun Li, Ilan Lobel, Ruben Lobel, Elisa Long, Lauren Lu, Victor Martínez-de-Albéniz, Toni Moreno, Hamid Nazerzadeh, Rodney Parker, Ali Parlaktürk, Margaret Pierson, Ramandeep Randhawa, Paat Rusmevichientong, Soroush Saghafian, Denis Saure, Sergei Savin, Nicos Savva, Nicola Secomandi, Kevin Shang, Max Shen, Melvyn Sim, Amitabh Sinha, Larry Snyder, Greys Sošić, Brad Staats, Xuanming Su, Ravi Subramanian, Robert Swinney, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Brian Tomlin, Senthil Veeraraghavan, Gustavo Vulcano, Wenqiang Xiao, Nan Yang, Fuqiang Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Yao Zhao, Leon Zhu, and Serhan Ziya.The 2013 prize winners are as follows: Two First Prizes Song-Hee (Hailey) Kim, Columbia University“ICU Admission Control: An Empirical Study of Capacity Allocation and itsImplication on Patient Outcomes”Xuan Wang, New York University“Process Flexibility: A Distribution-Free Bound on the Performance of k -Chain” Finalists Dragos Florin Ciocan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Resource Allocation”Nitish Jain, INSEAD“Managing Global Sourcing: Inventory Performance”Anyan Qi, University of Michigan“Capacity Investment with Demand Learning”John Yao, Columbia University“Optimal Price and Delay Differentiation in Queueing Systems”