ISMS Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: Does Customer Feedback Lead to Spillover Effects through Firm Improvements?

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: The Challenges of Deploying an Algorithmic Pricing Tool: Evidence from Airbnb

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: Measuring Fair Competition

2023 Winner(s)

Winning material: Designing Promises with Reference-Dependent Customers: The Case of Online Grocery Delivery Time

2023 Winner(s)

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

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
Ziwei Cong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Runshan Fu, Carnegie Mellon University
Wei Lu, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Alexey Sinyashin, UC Berkeley
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)
Mengxia Zhang, University of Southern California
Minkyung Kim, Yale School of Management
Hana Choi , Duke University
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)
Daniel Ringel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Xiao Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Ayelet Israeli, Northwestern University
Shijie Lu, University of Southern California
Arun Gopalakrishnan, University of Pennsylvania
2013 Winner(s)
Song Lin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clarence Lee, Harvard University
Ron Berman, University of California, Berkeley
2012 Winner(s)
Shubhranshu Singh, University of California-Berkeley
Hye-jin Kim, Pennsylvania State University
Eric Schwartz, Wharton School
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