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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:41:38 -0700
From: "Popkowski-Leszczyc, Peter" <ppopkows@ualberta.ca>

Call for Submissions
The 2007 ISMS Practice Prize Competition

The INFORMS Society for Marketing Science solicits entries for the 2007 Practice Prize Competition, the culmination of which will take place at the:

Special 2007 Marketing Science Practice Conference at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania on October 17.

(see )

The winner will be honored at the conference, and the winning research will be featured in Marketing Science.

To enter, you must submit :

• a 500-1000 word Abstract of the work, and
• an Impact Statement,  a supplementary summary of what was accomplished and its organizational impact in enough detail (normally 500-1000 words) to judge the appropriateness of the work for the competition. (Send it to johnr@agsm.edu.au)

Up to four competition finalists will be selected from amongst the entries.

Timetable:

1. Submissions due June 1st, 2007
2. Finalists notified June 21st
3. Finalist Papers due September 1
4. Presentations given October 17 at the 2007 Marketing Science Practice Conference

Details:  Finalists must agree to submit a paper of Marketing Science quality. That paper will go through a Marketing Science review process with John Roberts acting as Prize Competition Area Editor. (The first round of that process will be completed in advance of the competition and will be input into the judging.)

Finalists will present their work at a special session at the Marketing Science Practice Conference on October 17th, and the judging will take place immediately thereafter. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony at the Conference, that evening. The delivery of the award requires the entry to satisfy the requirements for the competition, including a preliminary review by the Prize Committee that the paper appears likely to meet the publication standards of Marketing Science. The final decision about publishability as a refereed article in Marketing Science will be made after a formal Marketing Science review; papers whose technical material has been published previously or that do not meet Marketing Science publication criteria will be published as (non-refereed) reports in Marketing Science.

Eligibility:  The Practice Prize is awarded for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods. The methods used must be innovative, sound, and appropriate to the problem and organization, and the work should have had significant, verifiable, and preferably quantitative impact on the performance of the client organization. Any work completed within the past five years is eligible; prior publication of the work does not disqualify it. Anyone is eligible to enter except members of the judging committee.

Prize Committee: The ISMS Practice Activities Committee will appoint a judging panel which will include the Editor in Chief of Marketing Science as an ex officio member, the President of ISMS, the Practice Prize Editor and at least one other member of the Marketing Science Editorial Board, to be designated by the Marketing Science Editor.

Examples:  To review past finalists and winners, including short video clips of the 2006 finalists and winner, see .   Published articles can be found in Marketing Science (24-3, 2005 and 23-2, 2004).

Co-Sponsors:  ISMS gratefully acknowledges the support of the Marketing Science Institute, the Brand Science Institute, the European Marketing Academy, the Institute for the Study of Business  Markets, and the Australian Marketing Institute in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy as co-sponsors of the Competition.

Direct questions about the process or eligibility to John Roberts (johnr@agsm.edu.au), Chairman of the 2007 ISMS Practice Prize Committee.

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