MSOM Society Student Paper Competition: Abstracts of 2014 Winners

The journal is pleased to publish the abstracts of the six finalists of the 2014 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society’s student paper competition.The 2014 prize committee was chaired by Göker Aydın (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University), Guillaume Roels (UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles), and Gilvan Souza (Kelley School of Business, Indiana University). The other committee members were Philipp Afèche, Vishal Agrawal, Gad Allon, Aydın Alptekinoğlu, Alessandro Arlotto, Mor Armony, Atalay Atasu, Opher Baron, Bob Batt, Kostas Bimpikis, Robert Bray, René Caldentey, Carri Chan, Li Chen, Xin Chen, Ying-Ju Chen, Soo-Haeng Cho, So Yeon Chun, Nicole DeHoratius, Sarang Deo, Lingxiu Dong, David Drake, Pnina Feldman, Santiago Gallino, Srinagesh Gavirneni, Karan Girotra, Manu Goyal, Itai Gurvich, Jonathan Helm, Ming Hu, Shanshan Hu, Foad Iravani, Srikanth Jagabathula, Ganesh Janakiraman, Fikri Karaesmen, Diwas KC, Saravanan Kesavan, Sang Kim, Song-Hee Kim, Mirko Kremer, Harish Krishnan, Mümin Kurtuluş, Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Jun Li, Ilan Lobel, Ruben Lobel, Lauren Lu, Adam Mersereau, Alex Mills, Toni Moreno, Anton Ovchinnikov, Rodney Parker, Ali Parlaktürk, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, Ramandeep Randhawa, Paat Rusmevichientong, Soroush Saghafian, Ozge Sahin, Burhaneddin Sandıkçı, Nicos Savva, Melvyn Sim, Amitabh Sinha, Larry Snyder, Greys Sošić, Brad Staats, Robert Swinney, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Gustavo Vulcano, Owen Wu, Wenqiang Xiao, Nan Yang, Zhibin Yang, Fuqiang Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Yao Zhao, Karen Zheng, and Leon Zhu.The 2014 prize winners are as follows: Two First Prizes Yonatan Gur, 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: Models and Application to Mozambique” Finalists Antoine Désir, Columbia University“Sparse Process Flexibility Designs: Is Long Chain Really Optimal?”Karthik Murali, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign“Municipal Groundwater Management: Optimal Allocation and Control of a Renewable Natural Resource”Yaron Shaposhnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“Scheduling with Testing”Linwei Xin, Georgia Institute of Technology“Optimality Gap of Constant-Order Policies Decays Exponentially in the Lead Time for Lost Sales Models”