ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Optimal Comprehensible Targeting

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Regulating Data Usage

2024 Winner(s)

  • Mingyung Kim, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Winning material: An Integrative Solution for Data and Parameter Aggregation Problems in Marketing

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) is pleased to announce the ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Competition. This dissertation proposal competition will be held annually and will recognize the best doctoral dissertation proposals on important marketing issues and subjects! Through this Call for Dissertation Proposals, we seek proposals relevant to marketing science, theory, and practice.

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Past Awardees

2024 Winner(s)
Walter Zhang, University of Chicago
Malika Korganbekova, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Mingyung Kim, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
2024 Finalist
Fei Teng, Yale University
Ivan Li, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Samuel Levy, Carnegie Mellon University
Henrique Laurino dos Santos, University of Pennsylvania
2023 Winner(s)
Rupali Kaul, Stanford University
Mohsen Foroughifar, University of Toronto
Lukas Jürgensmeier, Goethe University Frankfurt
George Z. Gui, Stanford Graduate School of Business
2022 Winner(s)
Zheng Gong, University of Toronto
Alexey Sinyashin, UC Berkeley
Wei Lu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Runshan Fu, Carnegie Mellon University
Ziwei Cong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2021 Winner(s)
Olivia Natan, Chicago
Piyush Anand, Cornell
2020 Winner(s)
Olivia Natan, Chicago
Piyush Anand, Cornell
2019 Winner(s)
Omid Rafieian , Cornell University
Tesary Lin , University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2018 Winner(s)
Hana Choi , Duke University
Mengxia Zhang, University of Southern California
Minkyung Kim, Yale School of Management
2017 Winner(s)
Minjung Kwon, NYU Stern
Ryan Dew, Columbia Business School
2016 Winner(s)
Navid Mojir, Yale School of Management
2015 Winner(s)
Anna Tuchman, Stanford University
Seoungwoo Lee, University of Maryland
Chris Naiqing Gu, University of Chicago
Beth Fossen, Emory University
Courtney Paulson, University of Southern California
2014 Winner(s)
Arun Gopalakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania
Shijie Lu, University of Southern California
Ayelet Israeli, Northwestern University
Xiao Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel Ringel, Goethe University Frankfurt
2013 Winner(s)
Ron Berman, University of California, Berkeley
Clarence Lee, Harvard University
Song Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012 Winner(s)
Shubhranshu Singh, University of California-Berkeley
Eric Schwartz, Wharton School
Hye-jin Kim, Pennsylvania State University
2011 Winner(s)
Jason M.T. Roos, Duke University
Doug J. Chung, Yale University
Navdeep Sahni, University of Chicago
2010 Winner(s)
Masakazu Ishihara, University of Toronto
Pranav Jindal, University of Chicago
Baojun Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University