John Turner, Ph.D. 2010, received the George B. Dantzig Award for the best dissertation at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting in November, 2011.
According to INFORMS, "The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. This award has been established to encourage academic research that combines theory and practice and stimulates greater interaction between doctoral students (and their advisors) and the world of practice."
Turner, now assistant professor of operations at the University of California, Irvine, was recognized for his dissertation, "Ad Slotting and Pricing: New Media Planning Models for New Media." The dissertation (.pdf) and abstract (.pdf), was developed with faculty oversight by Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair; Professor of Operations Management.
Turner is the first Ph.D. graduate from the Tepper School of Business to be honored with this award.
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CBDR/Marketing Seminar Michael Norton, Harvard University, will be the presenter.
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OR Seminar Christian Wagner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, will make a presentation titled: Maximal Lattice-Free Polyhedra in Mixed-Integer Cutting Plane Theory.
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Finance Seminar Andrey Malenko, MIT, will be the presenter.
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CBDR Seminar Roee Teper, University of Pittsburgh, will be the presenter.
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Finance Seminar Juliusz Radwanski, Carnegie Mellon University, will be the presenter.
Every Monday and Thursday - 3 p.m. Afternoon Tea for PhD Students and Faculty in the PhD Student Lounge.
Our online application system is now closed. Deadline for all applications and related materials was January 13, 2012.
Thank you for your interest in the Tepper PhD program.
Tepper PhD Alumni
OLIVER E. WILLLIAMSON, MSIA 1962, PhD 1963 (Advisor: Richard M. Cyert), Edgar F. Kaiser Professor Emeritus of Business, Economics and Law at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Science "for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm." Prof. Williamson shares this year's prize with Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University.
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